Tips & Tricks 7: Create Popup Windows in Flash – ActionScript 3.0

by flashuser on July 14th, 2009in ActionScript 3.0, Flash Tips & Tricks | 6 Comments »

A couple of days ago a fellow asked me how can he makes a popup window in Flash for his website. I showed him how and I was thinking why not to share with you also. It’s an easy and very powerfull trick.

Here we go (this example is for Actionscript 3.0):

1. Create a MovieClip and give an instance name (e.g: myMovie)

2. Add an event listener to the movie you created:

myMovie.addEventListener("mouseDown",mousePress);

3. Create the mousePress function like so:

function mousePress(e:MouseEvent){

var url ="javascript:window.open('http://www.yoursite.com','title',
'width=800,height=600,toolbar=no,resizable=no,menubar=no,
status=no,scrollbars=no');void(0);";

var request1:URLRequest = new URLRequest(url);

	try {
  navigateToURL(request1);
         }
      catch (e:Error) {
  trace("Error occurred!");
}
}

4. Publish the movie and preview it in your browser.

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6 Comments

  1. samBrown
    July 14, 2009 at 8:06 am

    good stuff! thanks for the tip

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  2. samBrown
    July 14, 2009 at 9:17 am

    quick question: stated playing around with this, kicks out

    “1095: Syntax error: A string literal must be terminated before the line break.” regarding the var url string.

    also never seen “mousedown” as the event type. I’m used to addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, mousePress)…. is that a different way to event type a listener?

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  3. flashuser
    July 14, 2009 at 12:48 pm

    The error appears because I put two Enter keys in the attached string for “url” variable so all the example code to be displayed. When you test it in Flash write it in a single line. Also a “}” is missing for the function to be ended.

    For the MouseEvent you can use both the string like I do or the longer version, i’m used with the first one:)

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  4. flashuser
    July 14, 2009 at 12:53 pm

    I added the missing bracket to the example code.

    Reply
  5. samBrown
    July 14, 2009 at 1:33 pm

    cool, you learn something everyday: I never knew you could put a string as the Event type. Thanks.

    Reply

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