'nother newb question

how do you make a button so that when you click it, it goes to another page?

I made the button, but when I edit the "down" state, it says that "The current selection cannot have actions applied to it"

so how do I do it?

Greetings,

You had the right idea, you were just applying the actionscripting in the wrong place. The actions should be applied from the root instead of inside the actual button. From the root, right-click on the button and go into "actions" and type something like:

on (release) {
getURL("http://www.yahoo.com/", "_self");
}

Below you will find an FLA to help. Good luck.

Sincerely,
Jamie Michels www.thedarkcontent.com

K thanks it worked, I suck at actionscript

You'll get the hang of it. It's not that hard after you get used to it.

Any suggested resources for learning ActionScript?

I've never read it, but I think that everyone pretty much agrees that Colin Moock of www.moock.org writes the best books. Then there's www.kirupa.com and www.flashkit.com My friend Michael Hopkins of www.dthought.com always has some good Flash tutorials. Most of them are above my head though.

Thanks for the links.

Cheers,
GNUbie