Re: FLASH: Load movie & buttons problem

[John Croteau]

Hi Nelly and all,


When working with Load Movies all buttons except when covered by a

button on a higher Level remain active whether they are visible or not.

The solution is Parking.


Parking moves a Load Movie (or Movie Clip) to a frame that has no active

components (Buttons).

There are two types of Park Frames.

1) A frame that is completely void of any visible elements.

2) A frame that has visble components but either does not have buttons

or all the buttons have had their behaviours turned off (changed to a

graphic).


These techniques work well and if you used Labels for your Go Tos and

Tell Targets then adapting your Movies should be easy.


> Our site is pretty large, so it uses Load Movie to load separate .swf files

> on demand.

> The problem is that the buttons from the underlaying layers are still

> active.  In other words, even though you are on Level 3 and don't see the

> button from Level 1 below,  the cursor is still turns into an "active"

> pointer on rollover.  Moreover, clicking on what seems like an "empty place"

> leads to unpredictable for the user results.  I can't tell you how

> frustrating it's been.


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