How do I make an e-mail link in flash?

[freddan77]

I´m wondering about how I can link to an e-mailaddress in flash?

I´ve tried to select the word I want to link and then set URL to mailto:xxx@xxx.xxx

This works, but it takes approximetly 5-10 seconds to get the mailwindow to open.

Is there any better ways to make this work?

Thanks!

Fredrik Nilsson

[jimburton]

The other main way to do it is with a button with the following code:

on(release)
{
getURL("mailto:me@mine.com");
}

I don't think it will necessarily be faster though - you may find that it will always take a few seconds to open the mail client, particularly if there's lot's of processing going on at the time.

[Jeremy Severson]

you can make a form mail within flash that the user fills out and sends to a cgi script like you would with an html form mail. You can set text fields for someone to enter info into and also give the text blocks the appropriate variables. You might have to set 2 or 3 variables right at the start up of your movie to make sure they send though.