Buttons ontop of flash animation

I have a flash movie(generalPlayer) that in turn loads
another flash movie(converted from powerpoint) and plays it. I have
this generalPlayer loading in a java JDIC browser window. Since i
cant make flash automatically grab keyboard focus after the movie
is loaded into the browser(one has to click once on movie for movie
to get keypress events). I have decided to attempt to put a button
that sits on top of the playing slide show so the user can click it
to get the window to close, should they decide to close it before
the show is finished.
how can i accomplish this? i add a button to the stage, and
it does show up. But as soon as the slideshow gets loaded and
starts to play it then covers the button. How do i get this button
on top of the slideshow?
-ChazZ

If you're loading the second flash movie into a level, you
could make a third movie with the button that loads into a level
higher than than. You could also make the second movie load into an
empty movie clip in the first movie rather than into a level, and
put the button in a higher layer than the empty movie clip.

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Thanks Urami
Nice and simple, thanks very much
Gaz
On 5/9/07 12:29 am, in article
fbkpp1$juf$[email protected], "urami_"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> Garry Bradley wrote:
>> Hi all
>> Could someone tell me how to make a animation placed
into Dreamweaver
>> clickable? I just need a simple link to another page
but I can¹t find where
>> to link anything in. Is it a parameter that I need
to set up?
>
> You need to make that within flash movie.
> You could use big invisible button on top of your entire
content
> or simple apply onMouseDown event to the timeline which
will make
> the whole stage clickable, follow by getURL action.
>

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