FLASH: Re: intro

[Embryonic]

Hi there. My name's Marc and I'm both new to the list as to Flash.


I'm working on my first Flash site (my boss's, so there's a bit of pressure

there) and I have a few questions. I apologize if they're really basic, but

I hope some people here might be so kind as to help out (oh, and before

everyone starts screaming "RTFM!", i have read the manual, the help files

and even the macromedia book).


Anyway here goes:


The page lay-out is such that there's one html document with various buttons

supposed to activate various shockwave movies in a rectangular box on the

middle of the page, not unlike switching channels on the TV, with that

rectangle being the TV screen and the various buttons surrounding it

activating different movies within that rectangle.


1) I've been trying to get flash movies in HTML layers, but they seem to

disappear when I the page preview in a browser. I created the layers in

Dreamweaver and imported shockwave movies into the seperate HTML layers in

there, but they seem to vanish when browsed. What am I doing wrong?


2) How do I tell non-flash buttons (linked images) to activate a certain

flash movie using javascript?


3) Speaking of which, can I activate a movie using a completely seperate

button (= shockwave movie), for instance how can I get movie.swf to start

playing by clicking button.swf which is a seperate movie in another part of

the HTML page? Am I stuck to having to make a huge screen-filling movie to

have buttons activate movies?


4) The page intro is a shockwave movie, after which a background colorfade

has to happen (from white to green), which is a piece of javascript code.

What do I have to do, to tell the last frame of that intro movie to activate

the javascript?



Anyway, thanks in advance. I'm quite stuck here, so I hope someone can help

out?


Marc







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