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Subject: Re: FLASH: flash and vb6 sp3
From: Cheri Harder
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 04:39:46 GMT

Hi, Chris

First of all, I admire your "whatever it takes" to attempt the application.
I've always wanted to put Flash & VB together, but I can't keep VB in my
brain long enough to get from the beginning of a book clear to the end....

I would stay away from using scenes, since they flatten all into one scene
upon publication of the movie. But....seems you could use movie clips very
well. Put each toolbar into a movieclip of its own and then either control
them by tell-targetting them to go to "parked" or "visible" frames, or just
put each one on its own frame on the main timeline with the timeline
stopped, and use your fscommands to go to the appropriate frame in the main
timeline. It seems as though this would work for your second type of movie
as well, and may eliminate your "non-pop" problem too, although I wasn't
clear on what you meant there.

Your last two problems/questions aren't very clear to me, either, but Yes,
it is possible to disable buttons for a procedure to finish...by telling
that timeline to go to a frame that contains graphical versions of the
buttons (that is, not really buttons, merely look-alikes) and then the
procedure that you want to finish needs to have an action at the end of it
to send the timeline back to the frame that the buttons DO exist as buttons.

Now, did that make any sense?

HTH. Sometimes I don't think in words, so it's hard to talk. :-)

~~~~Cheri Harder~~~~~
charderatawsolution [dot] com
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application i'm writing
> in vb. i'm using two types of movies
>
> 1. the first being a toolbar. at the moment i have seven toolbars with
> different buttons.at the moment these are in seperate .swf files and i
just
> load the differnt movies when needed. what i'd like to know is how to
> combine these seven movies into seperate scenes in the one movie and
switch
> between the scenes from vb when needed. for these toolbars i'm using the
> fscommand to determine what button as been pressed.
>
> 2. 800 * 400 movies which provide help/information etc. i would also like
to
> combine these into the one movies using seperate scenes. i am having a
> problem though if the movies loops and the user tries to access a pop-up
> menu somewhere else in the program - they have trouble poping up.
>
> two last things, sometimes when a user presses a button within a movie and
> it displays a message box, the message box is duplated whenever the user
> moves the mouse over the button, even though the message box is wating for
a
> response, this happens spasmodicaly.
>
> is it possible to disable the movie when a button is pressed and the
> procedure that it envokes takes a little while to complete. this would
> diallow any other buttons being pressed while the operation is being
> performed.



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