Hi begeiste,

You won't be able to make Flash display web pages inside your flash movie, but you can make it fetch web pages for you. And they can be displayed in either the same browser window the visitor has open, or in a new one completely.

Firstly, select your button symbol and press F9 to bring up the Actions panel. From there, remove any actionscript. Close the Actions panel, or re-press F9. With your button still selected, goto the Properties panel and give the button an instance name. Something like "outsideLink_btn".

Now create a new layer and name it "actions". On the first frame of that layer, hit F9. In the Actions panel, type the following to make the web page apepar in the visitor's current browser window:

outsideLink_btn.onRelease = function() {
    getURL("http://www.wherever.com", "_self");
}

Alternatively, type the following to make the web page appear to the visitor in a completely new browser window:

outsideLink_btn.onRelease = function() {
    getURL("http://www.wherever.com", "_blank");
}

Hit F9 again to hide the Actions panel. Test your movie. Make any changes you want to, then publish.

Hope this helps

Hi pb1856,

There's several ways to accomplish this. Firstly, you should make sure your desired content (page) is contained within a movieclip.

Approach 1: On stage, but hidden until needed.

Place your movieclip on the stage on a separate layer with an easy to remember instance name. On a separate "actions" layer, in the first frame, set it's "visibilty" to false - like so:


Next, write some code to tell a button to change that visibility to true when it's clicked:


Approach 2: Attaching the movieclip to the stage when needed.

Having created your content movieclip, you'll need to know exactly where you'd like to place it on the stage. So place it where you want it to be, then select it and goto the Properties panel. Take note of it's X and Y coordinates. Also note that your movieclip will not initially need an instance name, so delete that if there is one. And you can now delete the movieclip from the stage. It's still in the library. Hit the shortcut key F11 to view the library. Right click on your movieclip and select Linkage. Take note of the Linkage Identifier for later - it's usually the same as the name you've given your symbol. Make sure the "Export for ActionScript" and "Export in first frame" check boxes are checked, then Ok it.

That's your movieclip prepared to be added to the stage. Now for the ActionScript to perform it:


Let's understand what the above means:

attachMovie = the command to attach movieclips to the stage
"content_mc" = the linkage identifier from earlier goes here
"content" = this is where you supply an instance name
0 = the level your movieclip will be attached to
{_x:0, _y:0} = the X and Y coordinates you noted from earlier go here

Following on from Approach 2, if you have buttons or anything that needs to be accessed within your content movieclip, you can address those symbols by using the new instance name. As per the example code above, addressing a button would look like this:


And finally, removing the attached movieclip with a button:


That's pretty much it. Hope it's helpful