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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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
2mikeoffy69 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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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. -
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: kwgroomsI 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. -
Need help with installing Yahoo style flash menu CS5
I downloaded the Yahoo style menu bar from the the available widgets. I got the menu bar to show in Dreamweaver, but need help:
I have trouble understanding how to use the f-source flash editor to edit the links.
I don't seem to be able to drop the f-source.com button from the menu bar.
The bar shows up as a tiny bar in IE8, not as I had programmed it in the widget programmer.
I was instructed to Insert ==> f-source menus ==> Edit menu in Dreamweaver. Doing this leads to the following message: "Install at least one f-source menu'. I did install the f-source-UI G file in the Adobe Extension Manager CS5. What else needs to be installed?
My OS is Windows7 and I am working with Dreamweaver CS5. Please help.
Thanks,
Tony UythovenFlash 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. -
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
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 menu reloads and therefore collapses
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
flash-based site? Thanks. JohnThe 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 -
I am creating an application that requires the flash menu
bar. i am having some problems with the coding can you help?
i need the menu bar to goto certain frames when released.
can i have an example of actionscript for the component?
Jak - Cheers if you can helpHi Hans-G,
Problem only exist on Windows 7 system, working fine in XP. Thanks for yr hep! -
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,
BekoOk, 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;
// set the buttons text
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);
//set buttons color
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 created by www.adrianTNT.com -->
<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> -
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
captured Captivate movie. All links on the menu work except Next
Slide and Previous slide.
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."
The variables "rdcmndNextFrame" and "rdcmndPrevious" do not
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
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 !
> -
To start, I'm a total newbie in Flash, so I'm sorry if what I'm asking is ridiculously primitive, but I was literally thrown into this blindfolded and I'm using google and several forums to help me out.
What I'm doing: redesigning a website. At the moment, the website has a flash file that introduces it's logo and subcategories of its' website on the top of the page. What I wanted to do was make sure there was a hyperlink on the logo that would bring anyone back to the homepage, very basic stuff. The issue I have run into is that the logo is actually a flash movie. Different parts of the logo appear at different times, and I think this is what is specifically causing me issues.
The logo that I want to hyperlink has several layers, and what I've done so far is select them all and create a button (F8, select 'Button' and rename it). When I did that, I noticed the layers significantly changed and when I tested the movie, it looks terrible, choppy and not how it originally looked.
I know the step after that is to go into behaviors and insert the url to which I want it to be hyperlinked. The only thing is that I don't want to show a terrible flash movie to my boss even if it's hyperlinked to the homepage.
Anyone understand all that gibberish I wrote down? Or does anyone see a flaw in what I'm doing? I'm not 100% positive if the steps I'm taking are correct, I've been to several different sites, all of which tell me to do different things.
Initially I tried coding it with ActionScript, but I was having terrible issues with that as well.
If it helps, the file I'm working on was altered a while back. Could it be that the file is not compatible or proper for Flash CS5?
Help!!!... how do I give that shape/button a url?
Since it is a button, it is already a self animating object that will react to mouse interactions, but only visually at this stage. The first thing you need to do to make it useful code-wise is to assign it a unique instance name. So you drag a copy of it out to the stage from the library, and while it's still selected, you enter that unique instance name for it in the Properties panel... let's say you name it "btn1"
In AS3, to make a button work with code, you need to add an event listener and event handler function for it. You might need to add a few (for different events, like rollover, rollout, clicking it, but for now we'll just say you want to be able to click it to get a web page to open. In the timeline that holds that button, in a separate actions layer that you create, in a frame numbered the same as where that button exists, you would add the event listener:
btn1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, btn1Click);
The name of the unique function for processing the clicking of that button is specified at the end of the event listener assignment, so now you just have to write that function out:
function btn1Click(evt:MouseEvent):void {
var url:String = "http://www.awebsite.com/awebpage.html";
var req:URLRequest = new URLRequest(url);
navigateToURL(req);
... how do I know it's properly placed on the correct area?
What area? If you place it where you want it, that should be correct. (?)
... how do I make sure it's invisible...?
If you can't see it when you test the file and you know it's there and your cursor turns into a hand when you are over where it should be, it's invisible.
...how do I see the other objects in the flash file I'm working on?
Select Edit -> Edit Document to get out of the symbol editing mode and back to the file editing mode. If you doubleclick an object on the stage, rather than clickingit in the library, you open it up in editing mode on the stage, but the stage and everything else will still be visible behind it in a faded tone. -
HTML link to a Flash file frame
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Hi
I've got a client who has a HTML site on a laptop for a
presentation and
within this site he's wants a link that attaches to a AS2
.swf that I've
developed.
The thing is it he wants it to link to specific area of the
file and not to
play it all. How would I do this as he's just asked for the
specific address
of the area it needs to jump to.
Any help would be much appreciated bearing in mind my
ActionScript is pure
novice so a step by step would be handy.
thanks
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Content-type: text/html;
charset="US-ASCII"
Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>HTML link to a Flash file frame</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<FONT FACE=3D"Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica,
Arial"><SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:11pt=
'>Hi<BR>
I've got a client who has a HTML site on a laptop for a
presentation and wi=
thin this site he's wants a link that attaches to a AS2 .swf
that I've devel=
oped.<BR>
<BR>
The thing is it he wants it to link to specific area of the
file and not to=
play it all. How would I do this as he's just asked for the
specific addres=
s of the area it needs to jump to.<BR>
<BR>
Any help would be much appreciated bearing in mind my
ActionScript is pure =
novice so a step by step would be handy.<BR>
<BR>
thanks</SPAN></FONT>
</BODY>
</HTML>
--B_3299492325_1333456--What do you mean about opening a flash file? Do you want the
.fla file
to open in flash? Or is it a swf that you imported into
Director? Or
is it an exe that was published from flash? Or a website that
was
created with Flash?
If you are opening a .exe and you know the path to it, then
you can use
Director's built-in open command
open the moviePath&"flashFile.exe"
for most other things, I would use BuddyAPI. To open an exe,
baRunProgram(). To open a fla or swf, baOpenFile.
To make Director open a swf on the stage, import it and
simply tell the
button to go to that frame. -
Loading Flash Menu in Background?
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(); -
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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