Instructions to designers of Flash banners

We have created a template flash source-file which contains the required "loop animation" and "clicktag" layers. These layers are VERY tricky to code. We STRONGLY RECOMMEND that your designer uses this file as a basis for designing yours. Ask them to add their design-layers *beneath* the ones in this file.

Click to download the 16kb http://www.mandy.com/1pix/flashexample.fla

Flash banners for mandy.com should please follow the following two requirements:

1) Making your Flash banner loop a certain number of times and then stop:

mandy.com banners must stop all animations after 30 seconds. For Flash banners, this is best accomplished with ActionScript.

If you don't already have one, create a layer to hold scripts and labels. Insert a label at the point you want the animation to loop back to once it reaches the end. In our example, this is named "loopBack". At the end of the animation, insert a keyframe and add the following lines of ActionScript to it (right-click on the Keyframe and select "Actions"):

if(++playCount < 3) {
gotoAndPlay("loopBack");
} else {
stop();
}

This will stop the animation after the third time it is played through. You can alter the number of times the animation is played, but the name "loopBack" must correspond to the name of the label you added at the start.

2) Adding a ClickTag to your banner:

Please Note: Do not add a button to your banner which takes people directly to your homepage, because mandy.com will not be able to record any clickthroughs it receives. Instead, we require the ClickTag variable:

You will need to create a transparent button that responds to clicks on the banner. This should be the same size as the banner. Create this button within the topmost layer, and assign the following ActionScript to the button as an Object Action:

on (release) {
if (clickTAG.substr(0,5) == "http:") {
getURL(clickTAG);
}
}

The script should be pasted into the "Actions" panel exactly as-is: any alterations will cause the ClickTag method to fail, and we won't be able to start your advertising campaign until it's fixed.

The banner will be linked to a URL on our site that detects clicks on your banner, before forwarding the user on to your own site.

The procedure for adding a ClickTag is documented by Adobe on their own site here: http://www.adobe.com/resources/richmedia/tracking/designers_guide/

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