Re: FLASH: Q: Return to referring frame

[Marc Hoffman]

At 12:47 PM 3/27/99 -0800, you wrote:

>The return

>button is supposed to take you back to whatever frame referred it.


Hi Hal.


There could be some pretty complex schemes for doing this, including

creating a movie clip whose sole purpose is to keep track of where the

visitor is.  But a simpler approach would be if you can have the help

screen open in a higher layer than everything else, and make it full stage

size so it can eclipse all graphics on lower layers.  Then when the user

closes Help, all will be as it was prior to calling up help.  The only

complication might be that any buttons in the lower layers, although

obscured, will still be active while Help is showing.


Note that anytime your main timeline moves to a place where a movie clip

ceases to exist, and then moves back to where the movie clip exists, the

movie clip will reset to its first frame. So be careful not to have Help

move the playback head in that way.



Marc Hoffman

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