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Many times when creating banners with multiple clickable areas, it’s a pain to do an event listener for each and a function to navigate to that particular URL.

I needed something faster and created a “dead simple” as3 link class, which allows creating as3 links in 1 line. You can download the class and a demo file by clicking the button below.

To use the class from the demo, upload the moonpixel folder to your default class path (more on as3 classpath here >).

Then you can just use it on Buttons, Movie Clips and other Display Objects like so:

var link = new Link(obj:DisplayObject,lnk:String,trgt:String);

Here’s how the class looks, it’s very simple but makes life easier:

package moonpixel.net
{
	import flash.display.DisplayObject;
	import flash.events.MouseEvent;
	import flash.net.URLRequest;
	import flash.net.navigateToURL;
	public class Link
	{	
		private var link:String = new String();
		private var urlReq:URLRequest;
		private var target:String = new String();
 
		public function Link(obj:DisplayObject,lnk:String,trgt:String)
		{
			obj.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, golink);
			link = lnk;
			target = trgt;
		}
 
		private function golink(e:MouseEvent):void 
		{
			urlReq = new URLRequest(link);
			navigateToURL(urlReq,target);
		}
 
	}
}

Tags: as3, as3 link class, class, flash, flash as3 links

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