Specialised email link

[evansvisualarts]

Hi

Can you get a button symbol to link to a specialised email, a email which has a questionaire embedded for a customer to fill out and then send?

 

[John84]

Just wanna clarify the question...

When you say button symbol, do you mean image link?
And, when you say specialized email, do you mean some type of form?

 

[evansvisualarts]

Yeah, basically I want an email link, a link to an email form for the customer to fill out and send to me. I know you can do this in dreamweaver but i want the link within my flash window so I need to do it in flash

 

[ISDProductions]

you must use actionscript

select the image on your flash stage, open the action script window and insert this script:

on(release) {
getURL ("mailto:[email protected]", "_self");
}


when they click on the button, it will open there default email and allow them to send you a email.

A better way to do this would be to link it to a form on your site. Although I think you are pretty safe having your email address in the flash movie, some people have yahoo or hotmail as email, and this will not take them to their email. If you choose to go in this direction use the script below

on(release) {
getURL ("http://www.yoursite.com/form.html", "_self");
}

 

[ISDProductions]

I should of probaly mentioned this...

The image that you use has to be a button symbol in flash. otherwise the actionscript won't work.

 

[evansvisualarts]

What I want to put on the site is a questionaire they can complete then email to me but I don't know how to do this through flash?

 

[ISDProductions]

Doing a form in flash is a little too complecated to explain to you on a message board. Sorry

google search

flash form tutorial

Anyhow, I think your best bet would be to create a html page that resembles what your flash looks like and just link to that inside the .swf

I have written a script that will help you do this if you choose.

http://www.webdesignforum.com/showthread.php?t=1799

otherwise go with the google search I mentioned above