Flash Menu Element in Dreamweaver

I already have an Adobe style menu (flash element) in my
pages... At this point I have on a 1-level drop down style menu...
The flash element has various properties... One such property
is the 'navigation' property... It is currently set to the
following....
'Mainbut3: QUICK LINKS; quicklinks.html; _self;','_subbuton0:
Bloomberg Energy;
http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/commodities/energyprices.html;
_blank','_subbuton1: Quick Reference; reference.html; _blank', This
code would give you a Main Button called 'Quick Links' and then sub
buttons that would be 'Bloomberg Energy', and 'Quick Reference',
But these list directly below the main button.
How would I extend these horizontally as opposed to
vertically?
Thanks-Dave

You know all the bad things that happen when you use Flash
menus, right?
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"dhoops" <[email protected]> wrote in
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>
>
> I already have an Adobe style menu (flash element) in my
pages... At this
> point I have on a 1-level drop down style menu...
> The flash element has various properties... One such
property is the
> 'navigation' property... It is currently set to the
following....
>
> 'Mainbut3: QUICK LINKS; quicklinks.html;
_self;','_subbuton0: Bloomberg
> Energy;
http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/commodities/energyprices.html;
> _blank','_subbuton1: Quick Reference; reference.html;
_blank', This
> code
> would give you a Main Button called 'Quick Links' and
then sub buttons
> that
> would be 'Bloomberg Energy', and 'Quick Reference', But
these list
> directly
> below the main button.
>
> How would I extend these horizontally as opposed to
vertically?
>
> Thanks-Dave
>

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Hello
I've created a drop down menu in flash using this
instructional tool:
Everything looks great but now I need to get it into my
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When someone rolls over any of the drop downs, the actual drop down
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I'm not the best at explaining these things so I hope someone
understands and has some help!

Please post a link to your problem page
"this instructional tool" ??????
"Cineaste_grrl" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> Hello
>
> I've created a drop down menu in flash using this
instructional tool:
> Everything looks great but now I need to get it into my
dreamweaver page.
> It
> needs to be inserted into a long, horizontal bar which
will contain other
> drop
> down menu buttons just like it. When someone rolls over
any of the drop
> downs,
> the actual drop down area of the flash file needs to lay
over the content
> that
> is below the horizontal bar.
>
> I don't know how to do this. All I know how to do is
import a flash file
> into
> dreamweaver somewhere on a page, which just pushes
everything down,
> instead
> just showing the main button area of the flash file,
with the drop down
> section
> of the flash file laying over the content on the
dreamweaver page... not
> shifting it.
>
> I'm not the best at explaining these things so I hope
someone understands
> and
> has some help!
>
>

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Version Flash CS4, Dreamweaver CS4
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Hi Hans-G,
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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.
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these reasons,
Adobe has removed Flash buttons and Flash text from the next
version of
Dreamweaver.
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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!!
>

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...
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and the
subsequent changes in DW, links to Flash elements WILL NOT BE
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RELATIVE, not document relative.
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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?
>

Tips for Changing Flash Website to HTML / Dreamweaver

I am going to be taking over the management of a website that was designed entirely in Flash. There really is no need for the entire website to be entirely in Flash - it is confusing to navigate and most of the content would be so much easier to update and maintain if it were saved in html. I want to keep two flash effects - one is the splash page and the other is gallery where a grid of photos flips up like cards and you can click the individual photos for a link to a specifications page.
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For more meaningful suggestions, please post a URL to the live site? It will be interesting to see how it ranks on Google and other SEs.
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dreamweaver and i'm trying to link the buttons (on the menu) to ex.
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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
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"Sabyonei" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> 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 !
>

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I have been unable to get my FLV video to play on my website.
I seem to have two problems:
1) I want the FLV file to be hosted in a different domain to
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do that!
2) I would prefer to use Flash skins rather than Dreamweaver
skins as I want to offer a full-screen option but I cannot get them
to work!
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makes no mention of the skin file or the flv file itself ... it is
as if it just simply has not bothered with it! I suspect I am
missing something obvious but cannot find it. All help would be
appreciated. By the way, I have loaded up a crossdomain.xml file to
the root of the domain that hosts the flv file but that didn't seem
to make any difference!
The second challenge is that ideally I would like to use a
Flash skin so that I can have a full-screen option and so that I
can have the menu bar under the video itself. However, I can't even
get that option to work when I host the whole lot on the normal
webserver! I am suspecting that it might be something that might
suddenly start working when I fix problem 1. However, if anybody
has any links to a page that provides simple instructions about how
to do this task I would greatly appreciate it!
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then embed the
code they provide into your website. This way their servers
carry the
bandwidth for you and the scripted embed code will work on
your site.
2) If Video sharing isn't an option, and you need more
bandwidth, you can
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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
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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
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this portion goes in the head section of the code:
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< div id=”color_id” >Flash Menu
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< 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
drop down submenus do not layer over any text underneath the menu.
instead, the menu creates white space underneath itself (the same
height as the submenus), and then the text appears under the white
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!

Flash button shows through Flash Menu

I am using a third party product that has a Flash drop down menu. In DreamWeaver, I added a Flash button on the page. When I activate the drop-down menu, the Flash button shows through the Flash drop down menu. How can I fix this so that the menu covers up the button? I've tried z-index property but that did not work.

Flash rises to the top. See this article on wmode parameter
http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?cid=e5141
Nancy O.
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Hi there, I have been building a website using Dreamweaver (i'm a complete newb to CSS & HTML, i'm a kiltmaker!). It uses a table based layout which will eventually link to a shopping cart. I'm just working on the html part, and I would like to include a Flash Menu Bar. When I add the SWF file, I would like it to align with the top of my product images, but unfortunately, ends up looking like this:
http://amhamiltonhandmadekilts.co.uk/test/flashtestdresssporrans.html
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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.
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I have a site prototype at
http://www.olsonzaltman.com/prototype.
The menu is one I've customized using the coding brainwork of Ian
Kelleigh of www.freehandsource.com. Many thanks to him. My problem
is that shy of using frames, I can't get the menu to NOT reload
each time a link is clicked. The beauty of the menu is that it
stays open to aid in user-orientation. Is there a simply way around
this or does the solution involve major coding and a completely
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The elements on the page will reload on each page view, that
will restart the timeline of your flash menu. You can pass
variables back to the flash movie, but that is not an easy fix.
I'm not sure, but the folks at JumpEye may have a menu
component that could help. Check them out:
http://www.jumpeyecomponents.com/
2 easiest options:
Load content into iFrames.
(downside: not the best coding structure you could be using
and there is a good chance you could hurt their SEO)
Make menu files for each section. Load individual menus for
each section.
(downaide: pain the the ___ to update unless you use XML)
My vote would be to consider Javascript for this menu. There
are many accordion menu options that could be retooled and resemble
what you have here. It would also remove the iFrames, SEO and other
issues. I'm not a Flash snob, but there are compelling reasons not
to use it for menus.
cheers,
Ken

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();
menu_cfg_xml.load(String(_url.slice(0, (_url.length-3)))+"xml");
menu_cfg_xml.ignoreWhite = 1;
menu_cfg_xml.onLoad = function(ok) {
    // create main menu after successful loading of XML
    if (ok) {
        create_menu();
    } else {
        trace("XML not loaded");
counter = 1;
function create_menu() {
    while (counter<menu_cfg_xml.firstChild.childNodes.length) {
        attachMovie("button_type", "btn"+counter, counter);
        set("btn"+counter+"._x", counter*80-100);
        btn1._y = 0;
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        set("btn"+counter+".the_text", menu_cfg_xml.firstChild.childNodes[counter].attributes.text);
        set("btn"+counter+".the_url", menu_cfg_xml.firstChild.childNodes[counter].attributes.url);
        set("btn"+counter+".the_target", menu_cfg_xml.firstChild.childNodes[counter].attributes.target);
        this["btn"+counter].onRollOver = this["btn"+counter].onDragOver=function () {
            this.effect.gotoAndPlay(2);
            this.textul1.textColor = "0x"+menu_cfg_xml.firstChild.childNodes[0].attributes.text_color2;
        this["btn"+counter].onRollOut = this["btn"+counter].onDragOut=function () {
            this.textul1.textColor = "0x"+menu_cfg_xml.firstChild.childNodes[0].attributes.text_color1;
            this.effect.gotoAndPlay(9);
        this["btn"+counter].onRelease = function() {
            if (this.the_url != undefined and this.the_url != "") {
                getURL(this.the_url, this.the_target);
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        this["button_color"+counter] = new Color("btn"+counter+".btn_color");
        this["button_color"+counter].setRGB("0x"+menu_cfg_xml.firstChild.childNodes[0].attributes .button_color);
        //set button effect color
        this["effect_color"+counter] = new Color("btn"+counter+".effect");
        this["effect_color"+counter].setRGB("0x"+menu_cfg_xml.firstChild.childNodes[0].attributes .effect_color);
        //set button text color
        this["btn"+counter].textul1.textColor = "0x"+menu_cfg_xml.firstChild.childNodes[0].attributes.text_color1;
        counter++;
    _parent._visible = true;
    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>

Problem with Flash Menu in iWeb...need help please.

Ok, I designed a flash menu in iWeb and successfully placed it at the top of the site. I then used the "transparent shape" method to make the hyperlinks work properly. I made sure the flash menu was in the back and the transparent shape hyperlinks were in the front. The menu works just fine for me and anyone else using Safari or Mac computers. However, people on Windows using Firefox, IE or Chrome are unsuccessful in clicking the links. They do not work for them.
Here's my website's homepage link. Keep in mind, if you look there on Safari, it will work but it does not when on a Windows computer. Any help is greatly appreciated.
http://www.platinumsportspicks.com/Index/Home/Home.html
It is clearly the problem that the flash menu is opening in front of the hyperlinked shapes but I'm not sure how to make sure they stay on front.
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.
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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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