FLASH: Re: Flash: next page

[Len Harrison]

Hi Lidia,


First off, if the pages you want to go to are html, then you are going to

need to put your arrow inside a frame and target another frame, otherwise

your flash reloads every time. We'll assume we are discussing html pages and

this has been done.


Secondly, if you just wanted a back button and were willing to sacrifice

some compatibility you could use the history property in Javascript to do

this. However, if you want to go to pages yet unvisited or are concerned

about users whose browsers have disabled scripting whether intentionally or

otherwise, there's a more elegant flash-only solution.


Tie your button to a movie clip whose instance name is "control" say.

Control has two to three frames depending on whether you want a mouseover

event for your button. Let's assume for the moment that you don't so there

are two frames in control. The first frame is empty except for the action

"stop". The second frame is a go to URL specifying the page you want and the

appropriate html frame as the target. The release event on your button does

telltarget to control with goto next frame as the command. This sends

control to the frame which loads the URL. There is also a second release

event on your button which advances to the next frame on the main timeline.

In the next frame on the main timeline you place a new instance of control,

identical to the first except that it loads a different URL. Continue this

schema for as many pages as you have.


If you want buttons pointing in both directions (forward and back), you can

either use two control clips or incorporate both functions within one such

that frame 2 might be the forward jump and frame 3 the back jump. Now your

forward button always does a goto frame 2 within its telltarget and your

back button does a goto frame 3.


If this is not clear after a bit of experimentation, don't hesitate to ask

for further clarification or a sample file either on the list or through

email.


len harrison

instructional designer

lenhabtcorp [dot] com

Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 18:39:34 +0000

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Hi Jamie,


Sorry, I wasn´t clear at all. What I´d like to do is  navigate in my site

with the same swf movie, like a go back arrow.


Say my site has 10 pages, what I need is to find a way to give the Flash

movie  some kind of "relative url action"  so that I can place the same "swf

back arrow"  in every page and it will always go back to the previous page.


Would a single "swf arrow" allow me to specify a different url in every page

of my site and go to page 8 if I am in page 9 or to page 7 if I am in page 8

without loading a different "swf arrow in every page"?


thanks

Lidia


Jamie Wright wrote:


> hi Lidia

>

> > Has anyone used a flash movie clip as a "go next" and "go back" button

> > in a dreamweaver site? How do you assign the action?

>

> . i've probably mis-understood your question but d'you mean to assign

> a html link to move between to html pages?

>

> if so you'll need to put the link in the flash  movie by using the

> "get url" action.

>

> jamie. .

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