links in Flash

[OEH]

Hi,

A friend designed my website for me in flash. It is very beautiful and I love it. I have since had a proofing site created that has a link to the main site. However I can't for the life of me figure out how to put a link into the flash site to get back to the proofing site.

Here are the two sites

http://www.oliviapile.co.uk

http://www.oliviapile.com

If some one could tell me how to put a link into the flash site I'd be ever so grateful.

I'd like it to go in the text here where the address is without a link.

http://www.oliviapile.co.uk/photography/

And I meant to say I create the text for the pages in wordpad or notebook.

Thank you so much for reading this.

[griptape]

You can't edit a flash document in wordpad . You would need flash.

[OEH]

What I edit is the text bit to put within the page.

I really would be grateful if someone could think of a solution to this please.

[ilantis]

Ah, another downfall of Flash (harder to conform to design changes). Unfortunately, the way your friend probably has the site coded is that it reads all the text from that file as just that: text. It doesn't care if you have a link, image reference, etc.

The only way that I can think of to make it work the way you want it to (having not seen the source code that is) would be to have your friend modify the code that reads from the file. The easiest way would just to have it look for a tag (like <url> or without the dot ) which it would then know to take the next chunk of text and make it a link. The Flash app would also need to know where the link ends (as to not make the rest of the text in the file into a link) so you could use something like </url> or . He/she should be able to use the Flash programming language (Actionscript) to accomplish this. My knowledge of AS is long gone though.

(If that technique looks familiar, it should! It is the same technique these message boards use to find links, quotes, images, etc)

Hope that helps.