Flash 2 questions

[Charles Iscove (by way of Sam Michel <owner]

Hello there:


I have been using the 30-day trial version of Flash and have some

questions.


1) I noticed that "Action" doesn't do anything when you are working

within a button.  I thought that, in theory, you should be able to

change scenes on a rollover (without going to "hit") but placing the

action in the "over" or even "down" states did nothing.  Is there any

way to do this?


I was trying to construct my web page so that when you rolled over one

photo, the other 3 pictures that were not being rolled over

disappeared.  This worked fine if the picture in question was in the top

layer.  The picture in the second layer left two photos on the screen -

the one in the third left three and the one in the fourth left four.

Placing all of them in one layer didn't work either.  I figured if I

could jump to another scene on a rollover I could make that photo the

top row in the next scene.  Nothing worked so I just left them all on.


2) The "clear frame" doesn't seem to work in the first frame of a scene

or a button.  I kept having to copy and paste an empty frame in.  This

was a pain.  Is there a way to do this?


3) What movie dimensions do you use for the web?  I noticed that

changing dimensions only changed

porportions of the overall size and it was difficult to figure out what

was best.


4) Is there a way to link to an email address inside Flash?  My book

only mentions linking to another URL.  On my web page I stuck the link

for comments outside flash.


5) I placed a link to a background color page in my HTML default page

followed by the link to my Shockwave movie.  On my computer at home

(using Netscape) this color carried into the  movie to create a uniform

color.  However, when viewed through another person's access their was

no background color to my movie.  Why?  (I made the background

transparent in Flash.)


Any assistance would be most appreciated.


Thank you.


Charles Iscove



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