Hyperlink problem

(data starts "www."): gotoNetPage( "http:///" & data, "new")

oops, extra slash

(data starts "www."): gotoNetPage( "http://" & data, "new")

Is there anyway I can have it so that a different browser window is opened each time or that when 1 user clicks on a link the same web-page opens on the other users screen.

Yes.. Instead of "new" use "_blank"

As for the second option, I am not sure I follow.  If you are trying to make one PC open files on another you will need to send messages via multiuser server or Flash Comm server.

I am using the multiuser for i have set up a text based chatroom using it and the hyperlinks are one of the features of it so I was wondering if a user clicked a hyperlink in 1 computer could the same hyperlink be opened up on a different computer without having to press anything

Yes...

The hyperlink would execute a send message to the other user.  Then that user's program would pick up the event and issue a goToNetPage.

I was also wondering is there anyway I can change the hyperlink color once I have clicked on a hyperlink and when I tried the "_blank" instead of "new" the link was still opened up in the same window

Not be default in Director but I have a behavior at www.mediamacros.com that will do this.  THe direct url to it is...
http://www.mediamacros.com/item/item-1006687110/

Ive also been trying to set up a button whereby if a user enters an address of a website into a text button and then presses a button that a hyperlink to that site will be opened if it exists but ive been having no luck with this. Would you now if this is possible and is so could you please show me how to do it.

Thanks

Sure.  LEts say your text field is named "myURL"  Place this on your button...

on mouseUP me
  url = memeber("myURL").text
  if not(url contains "http://") then
    url = "http://" & url
  end if
  goToNetPage(url)
end

Instead of the goToNetPage you coudl also send it across MUS the same way as I outlined above.

I added the above code for the changing colour of the hyperlinks to the property of the text buttons. Was this the correct place to add it to? As when I clicked on a link the text would change colour but the hyperlink that I had setup would not work.

Place my code above in a separate behavior and drop it on the sprite.

Im not to sure what you mean by this. Could you please explain a bit better please.

Thanks

Open a new script member.  Paste the code into it.  Select the member and in the property inspector click the "script" tab and set it to behavior.  Then drag the behavior onto your sprite on the stage.

I put the code into a script member and set the property of it to behavior as you said. I then dragged this over the text that i had set up as the hyperlink and it changed the color of the links fine but it wouldnt open the webpage

Try this..

on hyperLinkCLicked me, data, range
 url = data if not(url contains "http://") then
   url = "http://" & url
 end if
 goToNetPage(url)
end

I added this code onto the existing code above but I got an error saying "Script error: name already used on hyperLinkCLicked me, data, range". Was this the correct place to add it?

Looks like you already had a hyperlinkclicked handler.  Cna you post your full code?

I created a text box and highlighted the data, then went to Window - Inspectors - Text and entered in the website i wanted to go to. I then added the following behavior to my movie so that whenever I clicked on a hyperlink the proper page would open up.

on mouseUP me
 url = member("myURL(website)").text
 if not(url contains "http://") then
   url = "http://" & url
 end if
 goToNetPage(url)
end

I then added the following code that you sugguested to another behavior to set the color of the weblinks but when i attached this to the text boxes i created above the hyperlinks would no longer work but the color could be set:


property spriteNum
property pDefColor
property pVisitedColor
property pMember
global gClickedList

on getPropertyDescriptionList me
  p = [:]
  p.addProp(#pDefColor, [#format : #color, #default : rgb(255, 0, 0), #comment : "Base Color"])
  p.addProp(#pVisitedColor, [#format : #color, #default : rgb(0, 255, 0), #comment : "Visited Color"])
  return p
end

on beginSprite me
  if gClickedList = void then gClickedList = []
  pMember= sprite(spriteNum).member
  pMember.usehypertextstyles = 0
  pMember.color = rgb(0,0,0)
  iHyperlinks = pMember.hyperlinks
  repeat with link in iHyperlinks
    linkName = pMember.name & "-" & link[1] & "-" & link[2]
    me.colorize(link, linkName)
  end repeat
  sprite(spriteNum).cursor = 0
end

on endSprite me
  sprite(spritenum).cursor = 0
end

on mouseWithin me
  if sprite(spriteNUm).pointInHyperlink(the mouseLoc) then
    if sprite(spriteNum).cursor <> 280 then
      sprite(spriteNum).cursor = 280
    end if
  else
    if sprite(spriteNum).cursor <> 0 then
      sprite(spriteNum).cursor = 0
    end if
  end if
end

on colorize me, link, linkName
  if gClickedList.getOne(linkName) then
    pMember.char[link[1]..link[2]].color = pVisitedCOlor
  else
    pMember.char[link[1]..link[2]].color = pDefColor
  end if
end

on hyperLinkCLicked me, d, link
  linkName = pMember.name & "-" & link[1] & "-" &  link[2]
  if gClickedList.getOne(linkName) = 0 then gClickedList.add(linkName)
  me.colorize(link, linkName)
end

on getBehaviorDescription me
  return "Place on a text member and set the colors for custom hyperlink colors."
end  

Change
on hyperLinkCLicked me, d, link
 linkName = pMember.name & "-" & link[1] & "-" &  link[2]
 if gClickedList.getOne(linkName) = 0 then gClickedList.add(linkName)
 me.colorize(link, linkName)
end

to ...

on hyperLinkCLicked me, d, link
 linkName = pMember.name & "-" & link[1] & "-" &  link[2]
 if gClickedList.getOne(linkName) = 0 then gClickedList.add(linkName)
 me.colorize(link, linkName)
 url = data
 if not(url contains "http://") then
  url = "http://" & url
 end if
 goToNetPage(url)
end

I made the changes you said and i got the following script error: "Variable used before assigned a value url = data ?"

Change to
url = d

As I said above I set up a button so that when a user enters a web address and clicks the button the user goes to it, if it exists. But if I have only 1 browser window open (The one the program is currently running on this is the one that displays the page therefore exiting the program). Is there anyway around this to ensure that a new web page would be opened therefore not exiting the program.
The original code is:

on mouseUP me
 url = memeber("myURL").text
 if not(url contains "http://") then
   url = "http://" & url
 end if
 goToNetPage(url)
end

goToNetPage(url, "_blank")

That will open a new window.

Is there any way that you can make the above code work so that when the return key is pressed it goes to the website as well?