FLASH: DaVo's flash tip O' the day(#16)

[David Gary]

Hiya Flashers,


I think Colin's hidden frame routine is about the only way to use pop up

windows outa Flash, for the majority of browsers and I would like to thank

him for his help on the list. I would say, however, if your strictly using

swfs in your pop-up windows, then re-opening the brower really isnt

neccessary. You can use "Load movie" feature from within Flash3 for the same

technique. This does 4 things better than re-opening the browser.


1. The swf loads much quicker in "load movie" than it does in re-opened

browser.


2. You can bypass the time consumption and extra HTML work(making your HTML

simpler).


3.You can become much more creative in "window pop up- like" design.


4. You can avoid JS errors and include other browsers that support Flash.


Tip: If you have buttons on lower levels that interfer with the

"pop-up-like" routine

created in FLash, then simply create the buttons or button menu as a

MC(movie clip)

, then, in the MC, have one frame with the active buttons and a second frame

with the buttons set to "graphic" to turn off their active states. Lable the

active buttons "on"

and the "graphic behavior" buttons labeled "off". Then you can tell target

to them from

the higher level movie(pop-up-like) to turn them off and back on.


HTH,


-DG-


If any cat in here thinks this dude has given my man false information, by

all means,

speak up boy!





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