FW: FLASH: Disable Browser "Back" Button

[Vishnevsky, Nelly]

I wonder if I am alone in my search for a way to disable the browser's

"Back" button.


Our Flash movie lives in a single HTML frame, using Load Movie to load

various sections into levels.  When people habitually use the "Back" button

in their browser, it kicks them all the way to the starting page.  They

curse quietly, then begin making their selections again, only to forget and

hit that "Back" button again, when they are knee-deep within the site.


Is there any way, Java or otherwise, to disable the browser's "Back" button

while the Flash movie is playing?


	Nelly Vishnevsky

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	The Hillier Group

	e-mail:

nvishnevskyhillier [dot] com

	website:     http://207.78.206.16/



> -----Original Message-----

>

From: Rusty Worden [SMTP:rwordencisco [dot] com]

> Sent:	Tuesday, December 08, 1998 10:58 AM

> To:	Vishnevsky, Nelly

> Subject:	RE: FLASH: Levels?

> 

> You know I am honestly not sure. Alan Prather would be the man to ask. He

> is a Javascript guy though, not a Java guy. He is on the alias as well.

> 

	<snip> 



> At 12:48 PM 12/8/98 -0500, you wrote:

> >Rusty,

> >

> >I'm sorry if my question was confusing.

> >

> >Our site has one gateway HTML page that loads a Flash file which, in

> turn,

> >loads many other Flash files into different levels.

> >

> >During recent testing, we realized that most of the users habitually hit

> >their browser's "Back" button in the middle of the site, which inevitably

> >throws them all the way back to the gateway page.

> >

> >I was wondering if there is any Java trick to disable (as in gray out)

> the

> >browser "Back" button altogether while the Flash movie is loaded.

> >

> >		Nelly Vishnevsky

> >                  ________________________

> >		The Hillier Group

>

> e-mail: nvishnevskyhillier [dot] com

> >		website:     http://207.78.206.16/

> >

> >


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