If you’ve ever created a presentation, I am almost sure, you add links to it at least once. And maybe you’ve even been in the situation when your Flash movie played perfectly, but the hyperlinks didn’t work. I know how frustrating it can be, but there is a solution and I am going to share it with you now.
First of all, please, put your mouse cursor over a hyperlink in a generated Flash file. Did it change to a hand? If yes, this fact shows that the hyperlink does work after conversion. The problem can occur if your browser has security restrictions which do not allow opening the pop-up windows, or the security restrictions of Flash player plug-in installed on your computer do not allow opening URLs from locally placed Flash files. This can happen only if a generated Flash file is placed locally on your computer. You can make sure in it if you publish the generated Flash file on web, the link will work fine.
So, how can you resolve the problem with locally placed SWF files? When you click on the hyperlink in Flash file located on your local machine, Flash player does not allow browser to open specified URL so that some part of data located on your computer was not passed into the web. But you can avoid the problem and set your Flash player to open the links from allowed Flash files. To do this, you need to go to Adobe site.
Now, please, follow the recommendations shown in screenshots below.
After clicking on browse button shown in the second screenshot you must specify the Flash files with hyperlink located on your computer. But any case, there is no need to worry about opening the links from the Flash files published on web – the restrictions I described relate only to the files placed on a local computer.
Enjoy your presentation and add as many links to it as you wish! :)