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| Subject: | RE: Subject: FLASH: CLICK STATE IN FLASH 3 |
| From: | White, Jeff |
| Date: | Fri, 9 Jun 2000 21:00:49 +0100 |
BJ--thanks! But the URL is "not found". Is there an error?
Jeff
> ----------
> From: BJ Hoffpauir
> Sent: Friday, June 9, 2000 1:31 PM
> To: flasher
chinwag [dot] com> Cc: JefWhite
sandia [dot] gov> Subject: Subject: FLASH: CLICK STATE IN FLASH 3
>
> 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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