What is the Actionscript code in Flash to make something link on click

I'm decent with flash no guru or anything but I should be able to figure it out with just a little bit of help. I am having an issue that I can't seem to figure out. It used to be eaier with the older flash versions but I'm using Flash CS4 with Actionscript 3.0 and I have made a movie clip that I would like to be a button and how do I make it so on click it links to somewhere.

 

on(release) {
getURL('mysite.html'); // or use something else other than getURL, any other function.
}

 

1087: Syntax error: extra characters found after end of program. on source on(release) {

I keep getting this error when I use your code.

 

getURL is from AS2.0 I do believe. What you want is:

function gotoGoogle(event:MouseEvent):void{ 
var googURL:URLRequest = new URLRequest(“http://www.google.com/”); navigateToURL(googURL); 
} 

linkButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, gotoGoogle);

Code (markup):

linkButton being the button, or w/e you want really, but on it's click, it performs that gotoGoogle function, which sets up the URLRequest for google.com.

 

Hey thanks for the help, I'm using Actionscript 3 if that matters? What parts of that do I change out. The goog parts in the code kinda have me confused.

 

For ActionScript 3.0

myButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onMouseClick);

function onMouseClick(event:MouseEvent):void{

var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest("link goes here");
navigateToURL(request,"_blank" );

}

 

Got it thanks!


I was adding the action to the layer instead of the actuall button on the layer.

 

Nevermind finaly got it!!!!!

Thanks to the people that helped.