# Building menus in flash....can anyone help?

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**Created:** [July 7, 2004, 4:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/building-menus-in-flash-can-anyone-help/115300 "2004-07-07T16:10:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![teenagekick5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7feea3/32.png) [@teenagekick5](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/teenagekick5)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 4:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/building-menus-in-flash-can-anyone-help/115300/1 "2004-07-07T16:10:57Z")

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can anyone help? im building a menu for my website in flash mx, my website uses a frameset consisting, topframe mainframe and menu, i have made a menu using flash., now heres the problem, how on earth do i get my links to open in the mainframe rather than over the top of everything, in a new window, or on top of my flash frame

ive tried and tried and i cant work it out or find answer, please someone put me out of my misery and tell me if a it can be done and b if so how

ty

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 6:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/building-menus-in-flash-can-anyone-help/115300/2 "2004-07-07T18:14:43Z")

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you open your page whit something like this: getURL(…) I dont remember clear but read in (F1) ActioscriptHelp, play whit \_blank/\_self parameter , try to put the mainframe name there or a relative address to the mainframe

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2004, 1:09am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/building-menus-in-flash-can-anyone-help/115300/3 "2004-07-08T01:09:43Z")

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> [@lordkiller](#):
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> you open your page whit something like this: getURL(…) I dont remember clear but read in (F1) ActioscriptHelp, play whit \_blank/\_self parameter , try to put the mainframe name there or a relative address to the mainframe

tried everything i can think of with the action script, ive even renamed my mainframe “\_self” but to no avail, so i spent another couple hours crawling the net hunting for answers

when it finally hit me, ill just use some clever layouts with dream

i now have 3 swf files, depending on what page there stored on and how the things fly around and i got my all important loading sequence in wich was the whole original point of the exercise

but if anyone does know a way of linkg to a different frame from the 4 that seem to be standard pls pls i would love to know

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2004, 1:30am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/building-menus-in-flash-can-anyone-help/115300/4 "2004-07-08T01:30:44Z")

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I think this is what you’re looking for 😉  
[http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash5/frames.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash5/frames.htm)