RE: FLASH: "Sticking" buttons function??

[Gina K. Anderson]

Hi Chris,


Thank you so much for offering help :) Thing is, the designer doesn't want the

content to be Flash at all. He almost wants to load the flash movie as a

"graphic" in each regular HTML page. So the text will be plain ol' HTML. That's

my problem. To me, this means eight flash movies, 1 for each page, with the down

graphic in place of the dynamic button depending on section. But I was hoping

there would be another way. Is there??


Gina


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From: ownerchinwag [dot] com [ownerchinwag [dot] com]On">mailto:ownerchinwag [dot] com]On Behalf Of Chris

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|Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 1:59 PM

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|Subject: Re: FLASH: "Sticking" buttons function??

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|Gina,

|

|If you can put the pie chart and the eight sections (assuming each of the

|sections are in Flash as well) together, then you could have one URL with

|all the info in one flash movie altogether. The only possible downside is

|the amount of content for each section.

|If these sections are larger, they could then be included or referenced into

|the master. (e.g., product_acq.swf loaded into a placeholder mc)

|

|Either way, I would just copy the button graphic's on state and replaced it

|in each respective section. That is, if section 1 starts at frame 50 to 60,

|then replace the button for those frames only.

|

|Although it's not exactly the same, take a look at this swf I was working on

|(it's beta and therefore a little rough, but if you look how the buttons on

|the left work, this might help you out.)

|http://www.tetrasc.com/flottman/index.html

|

|Hth,

|Chris

|

|> Now that I have my images looking right, finally, I could use a URL, hint, or

|> idea concerning a function that needs to be put into my flash movie.

|

|> Again, the image is a pie chart, which will be used for navigation. You can

|> see the beginning movie here:

|

|> http://www.sitediva.com/clients/piechart/nav.html (push and mouseover the

|> buttons to see states)

|

|> There will be eight pages of content, corresponding to the button

|titles. Each

|> page needs to have the "down" state (red button) showing so the user

|will have

|> a visual clue of what section they are in. The designer wants each seperate

|> html page to have the movie loaded into it, they will not be using frames.

|

|> Due to my limited knowledge of flash, the only thing I can think of

|is to have

|> a different flash movie for each page, and stripping the button and placing a

|> static graphic of the red state for each page. Which means 8 flash movies.

|> Seeing how they are only about 15kb, it isn't a *huge* deal, but I

|would think

|> there is a cleaner way to do this...

|

|> Any ideas? Can Flash detect the URL of the page and load the appropriate hit

|> state and stick there, or do you have a better suggestion?

|

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