Subject: FLASH: CLICK STATE IN FLASH 3

[BJ Hoffpauir]

Jeff,


I recently went through the exact same dillemma.  You can see how my 

solution works on http://www.timetrend.com/redesign/ (note - the site is not 

completely done but the nav elements are).


Basically, my flash movie for the left hand nav bar is controlled by 

javascript.  Each frame of the movie corresponds to a [particular area of 

the site.  I wrote a script that passes instructions to the flash movie and 

tells it to go to a specific frame, depending on what page you are viewing.  

You can view the source of the pages when you visit, but i would be happy to 

share the FLA file if you need it.


There are some browser compatibiliy issues to deal with.  We only had to 

design for 4.0 browsers, so that wasn't too difficult to accomplish.  You 

should also remember that flash and javascript have a different way of 

counting frames.  Javascript (like most programming languages) starts 

counting with 'ZERO'


Basically, if you opened the .swf file in flash 4, the timeline would start 

with frame 1.  Well, if you want to use javascript to tell the movie to go 

to 'frame 1'  you would actually code it to go to 'frame 0'


It's weird, especially for those who do much programming, but not that 

difficult to get the hang of.


Email me if you need anything else

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