Flash Menu in Dreamweaver8

Where to start... I have a Flash menu that has very simple
buttons and each button has a link defined to a different page in
the website. The pages are on the host server and if I type that
address into a browser they open without any problems.
However, if I click on a button in the menu, it replicates
the site name twice and the page name at the end of it. So instead
of getting www.mysite.com/about.html it shows
www.mysite.com/www.mysite.com/about.html. I have double and triple
checked the buttons and deleted and recreated them a hundred times
but they always seem to duplicate the site url and then add it
again - which gives a page not found error.
Anyone with any ideas as to why this happens? Im a complete
newbie and this but can get around DW8 ok.
John

> And for those that do not have Flash
> installed, and want to use the objects, the code is
included to ask the
> user if
> they want to install it from the macromedia site.
Chances are, if they don't have it installed, your nag is not
going to push
them to do so. But if you have redundant HTML navigation,
then you are
covered.
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> Thanks to _seb_ as well.
>
> To Murray *ACE*, the pages have a left hand vertical
menu in html as well
> as
> the Flash Menu at the top so the links will be read, and
the pages passed
> the
> accessibility tests built into DW8. And for those that
do not have Flash
> installed, and want to use the objects, the code is
included to ask the
> user if
> they want to install it from the macromedia site.
>
> I'm not sure if you are suggesting that I know far too
little to put a
> website
> up, if you are, you may well be right, but I am teaching
myself and the
> things
> you mentioned above were drummed into me by a friend who
does this for
> living.
> I am going to make a lot of mistakes, some serious, some
not so, but I am
> going
> to continue to learn and do what I can.
>
> Thanks
>

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Please download the file attached and you can own it as well.
Looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Respectfully yours,
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Ok, here we go:
ACTION SCRIPT CODE:
_parent._visible = false;
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding= "UTF-8" ?>

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Message was edited by: kwgrooms

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"JakeAllen" <[email protected]> wrote in
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>I can?t get my flash menu I created to show up in the
.dwt Template. It
>shows
> up in the editable region fine. When I preview just the
template it shows
> up
> fine. But it won?t show up on pages based on the
template. Hope that
> makes
> sense. Any ideas?
>

Next and Previous slide from Flash Menu

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including moving from current slide to next or previous slides.
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javascript menu functionality.
I have created a Flash Menu and have imported it to the newly
captured Captivate movie. All links on the menu work except Next
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The script I use for the button for the Next slide is as
follows:
this.next_btn.onRelease =function(){
this._parent._parent..nextFrame();
Also I have tried substituting for nextFrame "play" and for
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work unless you are using a playback bar, which detracts from the
simulation.
Has anyone ever created this type of functionality? It seems
that it would be straight forward. It is most likely a target path
issue. The captivate movie is the container for the flash menu. To
access the captivate movie timeline and move to the next or
previous slide is what I really need.
Help!

I resolved the issue by selecting to use a playback bar and
then in the Flash file setting the visibility of the playback bar
to "0".

Flash menu in DW, how do I link the buttons?

Hi there!
I have a problem, i'm creating a site in dreamweaver with a
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the hole problem! I'm importing the flash file to the left frame in
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"home" or "about me", though it doesn't work! I can't link the
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wrong with trying to link the buttons on the flash object but I
don't know what else to do. And the thing is that i don't wanna use
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"Sabyonei" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:f1ktus$ct9$[email protected]..
> Hi there!
> I have a problem, i'm creating a site in dreamweaver
with a lot of flash
> objects. For examlpe I'm making a flash menu, wich is
the hole problem!
> I'm
> importing the flash file to the left frame in
dreamweaver and i'm trying
> to
> link the buttons (on the menu) to ex. "home" or "about
me", though it
> doesn't
> work! I can't link the buttons because they're in this
flash object. I
> know i'm
> doing it wrong with trying to link the buttons on the
flash object but I
> don't
> know what else to do. And the thing is that i don't
wanna use the buttons
> already existing in DW, i've made my own ones. The
buttons are moving so
> there
> is one more problem, they're coming in from the right
side (in the left
> frame)
> and bounces once, and then they stop. And that's when I
wan't them
> clickable.
> So how do I make the buttons linking to the pages??
> Would really appreciate an awnser!
>
> Thanks !
>

Flash Menu Style Help

I need to build a flash based menu and want to learn how to
do the same cool functionality that I see on the
http://grandcentral.com website.
Notice on the "features" menu how when you click on an item
the arrow will scroll down to that menu item. I'd like to learn how
to make a pointer move across multiple other items to get to the
one that is being clicked on like that. I hope it is easy enough
that I can do it!
Any help is most appreciated as I have a project I'm doing
right now that would really benefit from this.
Thanks in advance!
I work on a mac running osx and flash 8 pro.

Flash menus (Flash navigation, period) is a terrible thing from a functional standpoint. It looks really nice, but the honeymoon ends there. As far as SEO goes, your entire site, beyond the landing page, is invisible. A search robot will only see an embeded Flash object.
You have to ask yourself a basic question.
1. What is the purpose of building a website and putting it online?
If it's for your own personal enjoyment and nothing more, then a Flash menu may be for you. If it's for a business or band, or a political group or social group, and you want people to be able to find it in Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc. then you want as many indexible links as possible on your landing page so they will show up in related searches like schedules, articles, galleries, etc.

Flash menu target help

Well because I am only a year old to flash I bought a program
called Flash Menu Labs which helps me create a horizontal menu with
many branches. I have figured out how to import this into my
project using the loader component but i have some other questions.
I can add links to my menu items within Flash menu labs using
the open method and _self, _blank, _top, _parent but not sure which
one to use or how to get it to gotoandplay or how to open another
swf within my current project. So when I click one of my menu items
it will actually open or goto a frame in the project that i put the
menu.
Hope that makes some sense. I have enclosed some pictures to
help make some sense of this. The first picture shows the Flash
Menu Labs menu i created and you can see it works using the loader
component. The second picture shows the actual Flash Menu labs
layout screen.
Picture 1
picture
2

mikeoffy69 wrote:
> Well because I am only a year old to flash I bought a
program called Flash Menu
> Labs which helps me create a horizontal menu with many
branches. I have figured
> out how to import this into my project using the loader
component but i have
> some other questions.
>
> I can add links to my menu items within Flash menu labs
using the open method
> and _self, _blank, _top, _parent but not sure which one
to use or how to get it
> to gotoandplay or how to open another swf within my
current project. So when I
> click one of my menu items it will actually open or goto
a frame in the project
> that i put the menu.
>
>
> Hope that makes some sense. I have enclosed some
pictures to help make some
> sense of this. The first picture shows the Flash Menu
Labs menu i created and
> you can see it works using the loader component. The
second picture shows the
> actual Flash Menu labs layout screen.
>
This is not fully featured Flash application but tool
designated to crate just menus
and out put them into SWF format - Flash Player compatible .
You don't have the freedom
to add on your own action script, except the getURL requests.
You need actual Adobe Flash
authoring program to create Fla/SWF files and be able to use
action script at will.
I don't believe you will be able to even work on "Flash Menu
Labs" files. Beside export
to SWF, this tool has nothing to do with Adobe Flash. Using
Flash you will need to make
your menus entirely from scratch.
Best Regards
Urami
"Never play Leap-Frog with a Unicorn."
<urami>
If you want to mail me - DO NOT LAUGH AT MY ADDRESS
</urami>

Flash menu frame help

Okay well for my site I want to make a flash menu that goes
on the bottom frame and effects the top frame! A good tutorial
would be nice! Because im also new to making flash menus. So please
help!

you are not thinking right - you can't really "effect" frames
- rather you can target what *in* a
frame or frames - preferrably a Movie Clip symbol. I'm afraid
a lot more information is needed -
hard to tell what your skill level is and what you are trying
to specifically.
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Kirkius wrote:
> Okay well for my site I want to make a flash menu that
goes on the bottom frame and effects the top frame! A good tutorial
would be nice! Because im also new to making flash menus. So please
help!

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I've inherited a website with a huge (2.5MB) flash menu system and would like to know if there is an elegant way to load it in the background from maybe an intro page that redirects to the home page after a certain amount of time - or possible when the menu is done loading. Thanks in advance.

var mcl:MovieClipLoader=new MovieClipLoader();
var lo:Object={};
lo.onLoadInit=function(target){
// loading is complete. remove intro display
target.play();
mcl.addListener(lo);
this.createEmptyMovieClip("targetMC",this.getNextHighestDepth());
mcl.loadClip("yourmainswf.swf",targetMC); // put an empty keyframe at frame 1 of yourmainswf.swf and add a stop();

Traget Iframe from flash menu

hi,
i had flash menu which i had put in iframe as i wanted to have fixed page size and menu items were long ,so i made product html page in which there is flash menu,then i call product html page in <iframe> in main page but event not working,i guess its something releated to target but i am not getting it.
Any help will be appreciate.

Sending you copy of demo side.what i want to do is..
.when menu is clicked that page should loaded and the menu item is highlighted in menu which is in iframe.it used to work properly when i remove iframe but then the product list is long and i want to present in fixed webpage without scoller for which i am using iframe.if you have anyother idea for presenting scroller in flash please let me know.

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