click-tag has me stumped

[StephanieDRSC]

I created a simple animation to use as a banner ad. I am trying to attach
click-tag code from the company that will be placing the ad on their website.

To do this, they suggested make an invisible button (alpha=0) and add the code
as action. But when I try that, it doesn't work. The action shows up with
other action (like my stop action code), the button says cannot add action, or
I get an error message for the code (was confirmed right though). I named my
button instance in the panel at the bottom but that did not help. I put the
button in its own layer. Didn't help. Do I need to set special properties to
my button? Am I missing something else here?

Also, it seems like there is another way to get the whole thing to act as a
button when it's up as an add (some on-line tutorial stuff suggests I can do
this as a setting at export). But I cannot figure that out either.

I'm using Flash CS3 on a Mac.

Thank you so much for any help!

Stephanie

[aniebel]

Hi Stephanie, you will not be able to see the results of the clickTag when you
click on your ad to test. The way it works is that when the ad is clicked, it
passes that variable (clickTag) to some javascript on the page where it
resides. The javascript then sends the user onto the "landing url" which has
been given to them by the client.

Here is what I do when I create an invisble button with a clickTag applied:

1. Create a new button symbol and edit it
2. Make sure that there is nothing in the "up", "over", or "down" keyframes
3. In the "hit" keyframe place a rectangle the same size as your stage
4. Drag your symbol onto your stage in the topmost layer, just under your
actionscript layer (as layer always on top by convention)
5. You'll see that when you create an invisible button like this, it looks
teal on stage. It will not publish like that... it's only there for you to see
for placement
6. While your symbol is selected, give it an instance name in the Properties
panel... something like "inv_btn"
7. In the first frame of your actionscript layer place this code:




inv_btn.onRelease = function(){
getURL(clickTag);<<< the syntax on this varies from site to site and is
case-sensitive
};