RE: FLASH: Back button yields weird results

[JGL]

If your client discovered it as a problem, it's a problem. Many users are

probably going to do what your client did, use the browser back button.


I have been through the back button hell too. I feel your pain ;) It always

starts with a client discovery/'hey whats this?' kinda thing. I have learned

to hate the browser back button when developing with flash, yep.


You'll just have to analyze the logic of your flow to determine what's best.


Possible solutions:


1-One thing you could do is a geturl with the 'continue' button loading a

menu.swf at level 0 and in that movie load that first swf at a higher level

using a telltarget pushing to the last frame. That way you take advantage of

the browser cache. Thus you have moved url's to the menu url fixing the back

button BS. :) - Ofcourse, this solution greatly depends upon the way you

have set things up. But with some ingenuity on your part - I am sure you can

come up with a solution that fits the flow of your 2 movies.


2-Use a popup without the Browser nav options - AOL always has a back button

though . . . no matter what you do.


3-Special instructions to the site user - very un-pro IMO - and not reliable

(users can't think, they just push buttons - hope I'm not pushing yours,

hehe)


Option 1 is best and most seamless to the user. Just tweak on it for a

while - you'll figure something out . . .


HTH and good luck! Doesn't seem too difficult to analyze and figure out :)


BTW- The site is GREAT! and I love the music . . . good job!


JGL




Actually JGL,  there are two menus... the one that loads at the end of

the movie and then Silkmenu which is the home or back button from

anywhere within Flash. In order to prevent a viewer from going to the

Intro and watching it all over again, I gave a fall back menu.  I didn't

load the Silkmenu.swf into the first html page movie.


But you are right. What he was doing was clicking on the menu at the end

of the movie in index1.html then hitting the BACK button on his browser

and expecting to be taken to the menu rather than reloading the movie and

replaying it. What I gave was instead home buttons in the Flash itself

expecting people to choose that instead...


It turns out the BACK button is only a problem for people using Flash and

backing up pages.


So, what's a better way to do this?   If I loaded the menu swf at the end

of the movie, then it would create the problem you described of a

confusion between page and swf. The menu I did use is integrated into the

swf itself so I can't dump it out of the movie by getting a new url with

a menu...


hmm...


How much of a problem is this going to be of people using back instead of

the menu options in the page itself?

Jeff



>

From: "JGL" <infodesignthenet [dot] com>

>Subject: RE: FLASH: Back button yields weird results

>

>Yep, went there let it load, didn't skip intro, clicked buy it now, clicked

>back button, got your clients results - index1. Only when you skip the

>intro, it works the way you want. I see whats wrong:

>

>At the end of index1.html you load Silkmenu.swf of which is STILL within

>index.html

>

>If you skip the intro you load Silkmenu.html which loads Silkmenu.swf

>

>The browser sees the html - not the swf

>

>Got it?

>

>HTH

>JGL





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