# Newbie - E-mail link?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/newbie-e-mail-link/14264>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [February 24, 2003, 11:51am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/newbie-e-mail-link/14264 "2003-02-24T11:51:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Demonia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Demonia](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Demonia)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2003, 11:51am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/newbie-e-mail-link/14264/1 "2003-02-24T11:51:58Z")

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Hello,

I’ve been poking around this forum a bit recently and everyone seems so nice that I got my courage up and decided to post a site (well I will in a few minutes, anyway) that I designed in Flash MX. I had a lot of trouble but managed to sort most of it out though I still have two problems and I hope someone can help me out. I would like to point out that I am a complete beginner and not too familiar with scripting in Flash (if anyone can tell me of some good tutorials - actually more like a course for idiots 😊 on scripting that would be great.

So here are my problems:

1. How do I make an e-mail address (text) link to an outlook (or other e-mail system) window with the address in the TO: section?

2. I have these scroll buttons I made from a tutorial that u can click and hold and they scroll - problem is the speed - the go at about the speed of light …:stunned:

I hope someone can help out… but if not … thanks anyway.

Demonia

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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:** [February 24, 2003, 2:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/newbie-e-mail-link/14264/2 "2003-02-24T14:19:24Z")

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Hey man,

1. Use

```auto
getURL("mailto:me@myHome.com");

```

Or something like that.

1. Be more specific. Can you post your code?

pom :cowboy:

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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:** [February 24, 2003, 2:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/newbie-e-mail-link/14264/3 "2003-02-24T14:41:19Z")

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Thanks, u r an angel :beam:

For the scroll buttons it goes like this:

1. I have a button symbol with the following code:

on (Press) {  
lPressed = true;  
}  
on (release, releaseOutside) {  
lPressed = false;  
}

1. It is then converted into a movie clip symbol with the following code:

onClipEvent ( enterFrame ) {  
if (lPressed) {  
\_root.sText2.scroll -= 1;  
}  
}

I got this code from a tutorial on making click and hold scroll buttons - I tried several tutorials but this was the only one that worked in Flash MX (I was probably doing something wrong on the others but I just can’t see where :()

Demonia