How to add link to flash banner

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I am primarily a developer and dont know to use Adobe Flash CS4. Is there a simple way to add link to flash banner. I have .flv file with some items in Library and two layers.
Please, give me step by step instructions.

Edit: I find simple solution, by steps:

Go to File -> Publish settings and set ActionScript version to ActionScript 2.0
Insert new layer
Create a square with Rectangle tool, that is larger than banner
Right click on square and chose Convert to symbol… In popup windows chose Type: Button
Double click on new button from Library panel and move select from Up to Hit and than go back to main scene
Right click on new blue square and chose Actions and paste this code in soruce editor:
```
on (release) {
    getURL("http://www.example.com/", "_blank");
}
```
Close source editor and export file as movie (File->Export->Export Movie).

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If you have a flash FLA file that shows the FLV movie you can add a button inside the FLA file. This button can be given an action to load the URL.

on (release) {
  getURL("http://someurl/");
}

To make the button transparent you can place a square inside it that is moved to the hit-area frame of the button.

I think it would go too far to explain into depth with pictures how to go about in stackoverflow.

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Html – the right way to embed a Flash movie for XHTML compliance

The best way to embed a flash file in HTML is using swfobject by Google : http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/

In the end it goes like :

<script type="text/javascript">

var flashvars = {
  name1: "hello",
  name2: "world",
  name3: "foobar"
};
var params = {
  menu: "false"
};
var attributes = {
  id: "myDynamicContent",
  name: "myDynamicContent"
};

swfobject.embedSWF("myContent.swf", "myContent", "300", "120", "9.0.0","expressInstall.swf", flashvars, params, attributes);

</script>

Hope that helps

R – Flash Banner with rollover/rollout – overlapping button cancels rollover

Oh man, this problem is one of the reasons I was glad to move away from AS2. I don't think there is a good solution, but here are some things I've tried:

Add a rollover method to the child button that keeps the second banner design in place
On rollover, use onMouseMove, enterFrame, or setInterval() to periodically do a hitTest to check if the mouse is still in the area of the second banner MovieClip. Do the rollout effect only if it's not.
Don't make the button clickable. Add an onRelease to the second banner MovieClip that checks if the mouse is in the area of the call-to-action button, and if it is, run the button's code.

There's also some explanation in Dealing with Flash Button Capturing from senocular.

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