playlist.load(“http://www.site.com/playlist.xml”);

wish it were this instead?

playlist.load(“http://www.site.com/playlist.php”);

instead of something like this in xml thus that must be updated…:

<songs><song file=’http://www.site.com/songs/1.mp3′  />
<song file=’http://www.site.com/songs/2.mp3′ /></songs>

you could have something like this, that updates the output xml file each time a new file is added to the songs directory:

< ? p h p

header(‘Content-type:text/xml; charset=utf-8′);
echo “<songs>”;

if ($handle = opendir(‘../songs’)) {
while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) {
if ($file != “.” && $file != “..”) {
//echo “$file\n”;
$file_no_extension = implode(‘.’, explode(‘.’, $file, -1));
echo “<song name=’ ” . $file_no_extension . ” ‘ file=’http://www.site.com/songs/” . $file . “‘ />”;
}
}
closedir($handle);
}

echo “</songs>”;
? >

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Shared_Object

http://www.adobe.com/support/flash/action_scripts/actionscript_tutorial/actionscript_tutorial05.html

to change settings:

right click on any flash swf

or

http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager02.html

stored here:

• Windows XP:
  • For Web sites: %APPDATA%\Macromedia\Flash Player\#SharedObjects\<random code>\<domain>\<path – maybe°>\<object name>.sol
  • And Also: %APPDATA%\Macromedia\Flash Player\macromedia.com\support\flashplayer\sys

• Windows Vista and later:
  • For Web sites: %APPDATA%\Macromedia\Flash Player\#SharedObjects\<random code>\<domain>\<path – maybe°>\<object name>.sol
  • And also: %APPDATA%\Macromedia\Flash Player\macromedia.com\support\flashplayer\sys
  • For AIR Applications: unknown, likely similar to the above

SIMPLY turn the cursor into a hand
(over something that really isn’t a button, in this case it’s just a dynamic URLREQUEST function/link).

Nice and simple solution:

top of your AS3 package:
import flash.ui.Mouse;

in function reacting to mouse movement or loader success:
this.buttonMode = true;

private function fOnClick( e : MouseEvent ):void {
var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest(“http://www.google.com”);
navigateToURL(request);
}