Opening a URL in Action Script 3
Navigating to a URL in AS 2 was pretty straight forward.
getURL(“http://www.ryanwelcher.com”);
As with most things in AS3 that has changed a fair amount. It is no longer one line of code. I’ll show you everything and then walk you through it
var myLink:URLRequest = new URLRequest();
myLink.url = “http://www.ryanwelcher.com”;
navigateToURL(url);
Ok first things first.
var mylink:URLRequest = new URLRequest();
myLink.url = “http://www.ryanwelcher.com”;
We created an instance of the URLRequest class called myLink and set the url property to http://www.ryanwelcher.com
Last step
navigateToURL(myLink);
This line actually makes the call and opens the url in a browser window. You can pass a second argument for the window type so to have the link open in a new window the code would be
navigateToURL(myLink,”_blank”);
OPTION 2:
For all you kids that want to keep it on one line, this is the same code all condensed.
navigateToURL(new URLRequest(“http://www.ryanwelcher.com”),”_blank”);