RE: FLASH: flash and vb6 sp3

[Chris Thompson]

hello again


Thanks for your suggestions, my toolbars now sit nicely in the one movie, i

can't beleive how simple it was. so far i've only learned as much flash as

needed to do want i want in my vb apps, so now i know a little more, ta.

tell targeting is completly foreign to me at the moment so i just put the

movie clips on seperate frames. I'm now attempting the same with my other

movies. we'll see if it fixes the problem with the pop-up menus not popping

up.


Eventually i would like the entire front end of my program to be flash,

although i might be trying for a bit to much (the app i'm writing at the

moment is a database front end)  i'm just sick of looking at grey screens

with grey buttons everywhere.


again thanks, and if anyone knows of any documentation for the ocx within vb

please let me know. i think there are major possibilties for inclusing flash

in visual studio projects, if there was just a little more documentation out

there. maybe the people at macromedia read this and address the issue.


ok, enough babbling,


Chris Thompson




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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~~~~~

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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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