Re: FLASH: Can it be done?

[John Croteau]

Hi Paul,


> In the flash file I am working on I had an idea but I don't know if it

> can be done. I have an animation running with buttons to get to

> different parts of the animation, blah, blah, blah

> What I want to do is have a help button. This help button would open up

> a text window with different text depending on what place you are at in

> the movie. Does that make sense? Basically, I have several running

> senarios, several scenes within the flash file and I need more text to

> describe what is happening. I don't want to have more scenes and more

> variations, what I want is a way to make something pop-up and go away

> without having to use the timeline. 

> is there a way to do it in Flash?

This is an idea use of Movie Clips (pop-up boxes are very easy to

cereate in Flash. We made pop-ups that you click too close, are timed or

even give you menu options.

Unfortunately you are using Scenes which is no problem unless a pop-up

is needed to remain while changing Scenes (because they can't). Also you

would have to create new Instances of Movie Clips for each Scene they

are used in.

You can use a movie loaded with Load Movie instead of a Movie Clip when

using Scenes.



> This is a web demo, so if it can be done by opening up a new window that

> would work also. This may make it more complex and I'm not a javascript

> person, so you'll have to tell me the idiot's version. 8-p

If you want to call an HTML popup box see Colin's article on opening

Windows.

http://www.FlashCentral.com/Tech/Index.htm#Scripting


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