Link from HTML to frame in movie?

[kitikatukatango]

My company has a flash site that I co-created with another company who knew what they were doing (I made it look good - they made it work right). Now the "powers that be" want to include [in our monthly html email] a link that will take the user directly to frame 9 to read what's new.

I've done some searches, and it looks like this can be done with javascript - but I've never used javascript, so I don't even understand what I'm reading, much less know where to begin, plus, it seems like javascript is only supported by some browsers (true?).

Can anyone point me to a tutorial [or offer any help] on creating this type of "direct to a frame" link, preferably one created just for dummies..?

[CyanBlue]

Howdy and Welcome... :)

I think what you are looking for is called 'asFunction...
Search the forum and you should be able to find what you are looking for... ;)

[petefs]

http://www.moock.org/webdesign/flash/fscommand/

Hope that does it for ya ^_^ Not 100% for dummies, but I think it's detailed enough for you to get what you want done : )

[kitikatukatango]

Thank you both so much - asFunction, eh? I'm going right now to check it out.

Looks like it isn't supported by ie on any Mac. I guess there's no help for that - are there any other ways to accomplish this?

[CyanBlue]

Um... I don't believe that the asfunction has problem with the Mac...

Go get the sample from this thread and test to see if it works or not and let me know???

http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?s=&threadid=25509

[kitikatukatango]

uuuuh...this is what it does: In ie (5.2) the page comes up with:
click here to go there
Frame No : 1

When I click that first line of text, the Frame No changes to read:
Frame No : 5

I'm not sure what it is supposed to be doing, so...IS that working?

On the moock asFunction link, it states that some browsers don't support it, one of those listed is "ie on any mac". Could it work now?

[CyanBlue]

IS that working?
Yes... That's now it works on IE6/WXP...

As for the Moock's link that petefs provided for you... That's another way you can do via fscommand function, so it is totally different in a way... ;)

Open up the sample file and see how it is working... and see if that can work with your file or not... If you don't think, you've got to find another way to do it, possibly Moock's way...

[kitikatukatango]

Thank you for confirming that it was working - I'll spend some time with the fla you provided and with the Moock link as well (thanks also for letting me know that the two methods are different - THAT would have totally thrown me off if I hadn't known!).