Dreamweaver X flash Menu Labs

Im trying to create a flash banner using "Flash Menu Labs
Professional Edition Version 2.05" software and every time that I
try to open this banner in Dreamweaver MX 6, I receive the
following message - "You need to upgrade your Flash Player or to
allow javascript to enable Website menu."
I tried to follow the Dreamweaver message orientation and
downloaded the last version of "Flash Player" (Version 10.0.12.36)
but nothing happened, I still receive the same message every time I
open the flash banner, in such way that I can´t edit it in
Dreamweaver...
I would appreciatte any help, any orientation, that could
allow me to work with Dreamweaver editing the flash banner...
Thanks in advance!!

If you want to use Flash for navigation, consider this -
1. Some people don't have Flash installed - what do they do?
Especially
consider those people who are browsing from a corporate
internet where Flash
is not allowed by the IT staff.
2. Search engines may not parse Flash links - your site may
not be spidered
unless you have redundant HTML links
3. Screen assistive devices don't parse Flash links - what
will those users
do?
4. DW cannot maintain links within a Flash movie, so if you
move or rename
a linked file, your navigation will break - what will you do?
You will have
to remake those buttons.
It's usually a very bad idea for these reasons - and for
these reasons,
Adobe has removed Flash buttons and Flash text from the next
version of
Dreamweaver.
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"giantani" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> Hy Murray!
>
> Yes, my banner has a navigation menu ... and I installed
the last flash
> player.
>
> Could you tell me please why you don?t like flash
navigation?
>
> I would like to say thank you very much anyway for your
care and
> attention!
>
> Best wishes!!
>

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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."
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If you want to mail me - DO NOT LAUGH AT MY ADDRESS
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Flash menu bar's hyperlink doesn't work after imported into dreamweaver

I have major problems when I tried to import a flash menu bar with hyperlink (created in flash) into dreamweaver. I have 5 buttons in the same flash banner file and each button is supposed to have its unique hyperlink. None of these 5 hyperlinks is working, but it works fine if run by the .swf file alone. What could I have done wrong in flash or dreamweaver?
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Kind regards,

Hi Hans-G,
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This is a drawback of using flash or any other active
content. By default, all active content including flash will
display over every other content and thats why your menu stays
under the flash movie. Some people make the flash background
transparent to show content under the flash movie, but that will
not work for menu items.
I would suggest that you make the menu such that it does not
overlap with the flash movie.

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My OS is Windows7 and I am working with Dreamweaver CS5. Please help.
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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 in a Template?

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?

If you want to use Flash for navigation, consider this -
1. Some people don't have Flash installed - what do they do?
2. Search engines don't parse Flash links - your site will
not be spidered
3. Screen assistive devices don't parse Flash links - what
will those users
do?
4. DW cannot maintain links within a Flash movie, so if you
move or rename
a linked file, your navigation will break - what will you do?
It's usually a very bad idea for these reasons...
In general, because of the EOLAS fix to how IE handles Flash,
and the
subsequent changes in DW, links to Flash elements WILL NOT BE
MANAGED BY
DREAMWEAVER. To work around this, you must make all such
links ROOT
RELATIVE, not document relative.
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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?
>

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
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 links are made in Flash, not DW.
I trust these links are not important, as search engines
can't see them
"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 !
>

Need help with flash menu

i have a drop-down flash menu and i would like it to be
centered on my page. i use dreamweaver. when i put the code in, it
automatically puts the flash menu to the left, and the drop-down
submenus are layered (they will fall over any text that is
underneath the menu).
now, when i center the menu using a div align, the menu
creates white space underneath it (the submenus can’t fall
over any text – in other words, it deletes the layering).
here is my code (i had to put spaces in so the code
wouldn’t get messed up here). hopefully someone can tell me
how to center my menu but keep the layering.
this portion goes in the head section of the code:
< script type=”text/javascript”
src=”flashobject.js”>< /script>
and this goes in the body:
< div id=”color_id” >Flash Menu
Placeholder.< /div>
< script type=”text/javascript”>
var fo = new
FlashObject(“menu2.swf”,”color”,”879”,”76”,”6”,”#FFFFFF”
fo.addParam(“menu”,”false” );
fo.addParam(“quality”,”best” );
fo.addParam(“salign”,”LT” );
fo.addParam(“scale”,”noscale” );
fo.addParam(“wmode”, “transparent” );
fo.write(“color_id” );
if (navigator.appName.indexOf(“Microsoft” )!= -1)
document.color.style.position=”absolute”;
document.color.style.zIndex=”10”;
document.color.style.left=”0px”;
document.color.style.top=”0px”;
}else{
document.getElementById(‘color’
).style.position=”absolute”;
document.getElementById(‘color’
).style.zIndex=”10”;
document.getElementById(‘color’
).style.left=”0px”;
document.getElementById(‘color’
).style.top=”0px”;
} < /script>

no. what happens is this: the menu centers itself, but the
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space. i've tried in both firefox and ie and it works in neither
browser. i'm stumped as to why this does not work!

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http://amhamiltonhandmadekilts.co.uk/test/flashtestdresssporrans.html
I would really like it if the top of my flash menu would align at the same height as the rest of the images e.g at the same height as 'dress sporran' etc so that design is flusher.
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Many thanks,
Steve

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<td width="16%" rowspan="2" valign="top">
As far as the spacing between the images goes, I didn't really get what you might have been trying to indicate relative to being as big as the table. But what you might want to do is create that entire menu/product table into a two column table, where the first column holds the menu and the second column holds another table with your products. That will give you more freedom to control the size of the products table.
You might also get some suggestions to get away from the table approach for a bit of what you've done, so don't be surprised... the intentions and ideas are generally good.

XML flash Menu

Hello Guys,
I am stuck with a xml flash menu which contains quite a few great options to manipulate the text, url, button and even change the color to the menu externally from xml. The only thing missing here (which I massively need it) is the option resizing the buttons from the xml file itself. The buttons need to be resized so that they fit each text length. I have the feeling that someone that is good at XML and deal with ActionScript would be able to easily add this option.
Thanks for commiting your time on this and I would be happy to help anyone in return who tackles this requirement I am after now.
Please download the file attached and you can own it as well.
Looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Respectfully yours,
Beko

Ok, here we go:
ACTION SCRIPT CODE:
_parent._visible = false;
// xml processing
menu_cfg_xml = new XML();
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menu_cfg_xml.ignoreWhite = 1;
menu_cfg_xml.onLoad = function(ok) {
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                getURL(this.the_url, this.the_target);
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        this["effect_color"+counter] = new Color("btn"+counter+".effect");
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        this["btn"+counter].textul1.textColor = "0x"+menu_cfg_xml.firstChild.childNodes[0].attributes.text_color1;
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    info_clip._visible = false;
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
XML CODE:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding= "UTF-8" ?>

<menu>
<options button_color="000066" effect_color="87A10C" text_color1="87A10C" text_color2="FFFFFF">
</options>
<button text="Task force" url="http://www.google.com" target="_parent">width="250" height="136"</button>
<button text="Service og turisme" url="http://www.google.com" target="_parent"></button>
<button text="Fodbold" url="http://www.google.com" target="_parent"></button>
<button text="Idraet" url="http://www.google.com" target="_parent"></button>
<button text="Kunst and Design" url="http://www.google.com" target="_parent"></button>
<button text="Teknisk/praktisk linje" url="http://www.google.com" target="_parent"></button>
<button text="Gastronomi" url="http://www.google.com" target="_parent"></button>
<button text="Laekker mad" url="http://www.google.com" target="_parent"></button>
<button text="Musik" url="http://www.google.com" target="_parent"></button>
<button text="Turbo-boglig" url="http://www.google.com" target="_parent"></button>
</menu>

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http://www.platinumsportspicks.com/Index/Home/Home.html
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Message was edited by: kwgrooms

I don't know the answer to that one but you can use the Mouse Over and Click method I have described on this page....
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/Tricks/MouseOver.html
It works in IE.
Its just a question of making up two different buttons with text for each link, taking a screenshot and cropping them and adding the JPEGs to your upload folder.
You can make up the buttons on an iWeb page and then delete them when you have taken the screenshots. I usually do this sort of thing in Keynote so that I can save them in case I need to modify them.

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Hi everyone,
I have a website that I am working on where I have a menu
made in flash, the menu expands when you select a category item and
executes a hyperlink when you click on a particular item within the
category.
This hyperlink load a new page and reloads the flash menu
which causes the option pre-selected to get lost and you have to
select again the category item and item over an over again.
It is good to mention that I want to stay away from Frameset.
Is there a way to load a particular part of the site instead
of the while site, so my menu selection stays the same?
I read about <DIV ID=", BASE, REL and REV and they don't
seem to work for me. Is there a sample code that I can look at to
have better understanding of it?
Thank you in advance.

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to make a IFrame and make the target link of the flash buttons go
to the Iframe ("
http://staggdesigns.com" ,
"_TARGETFRAME") that will work

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Next and Previous slide from Flash Menu

We are currently tasked with updating SAP training that was
created with OnDemand software. The current simulations have a
Javascript menu on each screen which provides various functions
including moving from current slide to next or previous slides.
When the existing movie is played and captured, we lose the
javascript menu functionality.
I have created a Flash Menu and have imported it to the newly
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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
the target path "_root" for the first "_parent."
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work unless you are using a playback bar, which detracts from the
simulation.
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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.
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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".

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