# \[MX2004\] getURL() doesn't work inside dynamic mc \[XML\]

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mx2004-geturl-doesnt-work-inside-dynamic-mc-xml/98567>\
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**Created:** [January 8, 2004, 5:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mx2004-geturl-doesnt-work-inside-dynamic-mc-xml/98567 "2004-01-08T17:11:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![ScriptFlipper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@ScriptFlipper](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ScriptFlipper)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2004, 5:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mx2004-geturl-doesnt-work-inside-dynamic-mc-xml/98567/1 "2004-01-08T17:11:32Z")

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Still creating the menu 🙂 I ran into this problem with getURL.  
I’ve tried a lot of things, but it still won’t go to the URL.  
Here’s my AS code.  
I marked out where the getURL is.

[AS]

// Create xml-object  
menuXml = new XML();  
// Ignore tabs, spaces etc.  
menuXml.ignoreWhite = true;  
menuXml.onLoad = function(success) {  
// When loaded, start building up the menu  
if (success) {  
// Create array topMenus that will hold  
// the number of topMenuItems in the frame  
\_root.topMenus = new Array();  
// Create variable topMenuItemStartPosX  
// for positioning the topMenuItems  
var topMenuItemStartPosX = 0;  
var topMenuItem = this.firstChild.childNodes;  
for (var i = 0; i\<topMenuItem.length; i++) {  
var item = \_root.attachMovie(“topMenuItem”, “topMenuItem”+i, i);  
// Set the label of the new item  
item.itemLabel.text = unescape(topMenuItem\*.attributes.itemLabel);  
// Set appropriate width for the textfield holding the label of  
// the item (7px_number of letters in the label)  
item.itemLabel.\_width = item.itemLabel.text.length_7;  
// Set appropriate backlight width based on the width of itemLabel  
item.backlight.\_width = 4+item.itemLabel.\_width;  
// Set the \_x value for the new item, based on previous topMenuItems  
item.\_x = 2+topMenuItemStartPosX;  
item.\_y = 2;  
// Check for subMenus  
if (topMenuItem\*.childNodes.length) {  
// Attach a subMenu to current item  
var subMenu = item.attachMovie(“subMenu”, “subMenu”, \_root);  
// Create variable subMenuItemStartPosX for positioning the subMenuItems  
var subMenuItemStartPosX = 0;  
subMenuItem = topMenuItem\*.childNodes;  
for (var j = 0; j\<subMenuItem.length; j++) {  
var subItem = subMenu.attachMovie(“subMenuItem”, “subMenuItem”+j, j);  
// Set the label of the new subItem  
subItem.itemLabel.text = unescape(subMenuItem[j].attributes.itemLabel);  
// Set the url of the new subItem  
subItem.itemURL = subMenuItem[j].attributes.itemUrl;  
// Set the \_x value for the new subItem, based on previous  
// subMenuItems and minus the current topMenuItemStartPosX  
subItem.\_x = 50+subMenuItemStartPosX-topMenuItemStartPosX;  
// Set the \_y value for the new subItem, and increase  
// with 22px for every new subItem  
subItem.\_y = 48+(20\*j);  
// If the new subItem is too far down, move it to the  
// top of a new “column”  
while (subItem.\_y\>180) {  
subItem.\_x += 150;  
subItem.\_y -= 140;  
}

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////  
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

```
				// When subItem is clicked, go to the subItems url
				subItem.onRelease = function() {
					// Why doesn't this work?
					getURL(this.itemUrl, "_blank");
				};

```

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////  
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

```
			}
			// Hide the subMenu by default
			subMenu._xscale = 0;
		}
		// Set new value of topMenuItemStartPosX, where the width of 
		// the current (topMenu)item is added, so that the next item 
		// will be placed to the left of the current item
		topMenuItemStartPosX += item.backlight._width;
		// Add the current name to the topMenus-array
		_root.topMenus* = item.name;
		// When onRollOver is trigged, it will be lit up
		item.onRollOver = function() {
			this.backlight._alpha = 100;
		};
		item.onRollOut = function() {
			// When onRollOut is trigged, check if the var clicked is set
			if (!this.clicked) {
				// If not, don't lit up
				this.backlight._alpha = 0;
			} else if (this.clicked) {
				// If it is
				if (this.clicked=false) {
					// ...but if clicked is false, don't lit up
					this.backlight._alpha = 0;
				} else if (this.clicked=true) {
					// ...and clicked = true, keep lit
					this.backlight._alpha = 100;
				}
			}
		};
		item.onRelease = function() {
			// "Disable" all other topMenuItems (how many there are is 
			// based on the number of topMenuItems in the array topMenus)
			for (var k = 0; k&lt;_root.topMenus.length; k++) {
				_root["topMenuItem"+k].backlight._alpha = 0;
				_root["topMenuItem"+k].clicked = false;
				// If there is a subMenu in the current topMenuItem that 
				// is to be "disabled", hide it
				if (_root["topMenuItem"+k].subMenu) {
					_root["topMenuItem"+k].subMenu._xscale = 0;
				}
			}
			// Set var clicked for reference in the item.onRollOut
			this.clicked = true;
			// Lighten up current item
			this.backlight._alpha = 100;
			// If the current item has a subMenu, show it
			if (this.subMenu) {
				this.subMenu._xscale = 100;
			}
		};
	}
}

```

};  
// Load the xml  
menuXml.load(“nav.xml”);

[/AS]

and my XML looks like this:

```auto

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
    <topMenu>
      <topMenuItem itemLabel="KIRUPA.COM">
        <subMenuItem itemLabel="Tutorials overview" itemUrl="http://www.kirupa.com/developer" />
        <subMenuItem itemLabel="Flash MX2004 tutorials" itemUrl="subMenuItem1.htm" />
        <subMenuItem itemLabel="Flash MX tutorials" itemUrl="subMenuItem2.htm" />
        <subMenuItem itemLabel="Flash 5 tutorials" itemUrl="subMenuItem3.htm" />
        <subMenuItem itemLabel="Kirupa Forums" itemUrl="http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/" />
        <subMenuItem itemLabel="subItem 5" itemUrl="#" />
        <subMenuItem itemLabel="subItem 6" itemUrl="#" />
        <subMenuItem itemLabel="subItem 7" itemUrl="#" />
        <subMenuItem itemLabel="subItem 8" itemUrl="#" />
        <subMenuItem itemLabel="subItem 9" itemUrl="#" />
      </topMenuItem>
      <topMenuItem itemLabel="ITEM 2">
        <subMenuItem itemLabel="subItem 0" itemUrl="#" />
      </topMenuItem>
      <topMenuItem itemLabel="ITEM 3" />
    </topMenu>

```

Please help!  
Greetings  
Kalliban