Help Brining Flash button to Dreamweaver/webpage?!?!

Hello all,
I've created an animated button in flash cs3, and wanted to bring my work onto a webpage. I am using dreamwaver cs4, and want to know how, the only thing I know how to do on dreamweaver is bring in the whole movie clip, but this just won't do... PLEASE HELP ME!!!!
ps: just bringing it onto a webpage is my question...

When you say, "just the button," to what are you referring?
If just the image of the button, export (from Flash) an image.
If you need it to work like the flash button you designed, you will need the whole .swf file (and any auxiliary code).
Beth

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Flash buttons in dreamweaver 8

Hi,
i am having a problem with inserting flash button in
dreamweaver 8, when i insert the buttons it appears on the page as
a grey box with "F"(flash) and not displaying the proper text. The
user is a standard windows users and has not administrator
privilidges. but if an administrator loggs into the pc and does the
exact same process then the flash button work.
has anyone come across this problem ? does anyone know how to
resolve
cheers
david

You'll need to go back into Flash and build the links into the buttons before you create the swf's. Look in the Flash help docs regarding the getURL function as far as the code you'll need for linking. If you have problems, post in the Flash AS1 and AS2 forum.
Beyond that, don't be surprised if some feedback arises here regarding using Flash buttons.

Previewing Flash Button in Dreamweaver

When I insert the Flash Button/Movie into the Dreamweaver doc
and preview in browser, I only see a placeholder.
I created a simple Flash "movie" with some dynamic text
functioning as a button layered over the animation.
It previews fine in flash, and when I play the animation in
the Dreamweaver document it looks fine but when I try to preview it
in the browser from the Dreamweaver document all I see is a Flash
placeholder. Is this something that will change when the page is
published or is there something else I should try?

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 will
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 CS4.
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> After inserting a flash button in dreamweaver CS3 , I
select add behavior
> and
> then Go to URL onFocus (i tried onClick to), when i
upload the website
> works
> fine in IE but in firefox the buttons doesnt works, how
can i fix it?.
>
> Thanks.
>

Are There Preset Flash Buttons In Dreamweaver CS4

I have upgraded from Dreamweaver MX to CS4 and I'm looking for preset flash buttons that I can just insert within dreamweaver and I can't find any. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place? I don't know how to create flash buttons just yet and If i need to start the journey of learning how please let me know. I'm editing a site I created in MX so I want matching buttons and such lol.

There aren't any flash buttons in DWCS4 anymore see Deprecated features in this link:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Dreamweaver/10.0_Using/WS2C41F19D-502B-4fb5-8A54-4442E2127C84a .html
Rgds!

Flash Buttons in Dreamweaver CS3

I'm trying to place some flash buttons on my Dreamweaver site
and when I insert a flash button, all I get on my page is a Flash
icon. What do I need to do to get my buttons to show up? I would
appreciate any help you can give. Thank You.
P.S. I'm on a Mac with OS 10.4 (tiger)

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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"gringodogi" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> I'm trying to place some flash buttons on my Dreamweaver
site and when I
> insert
> a flash button, all I get on my page is a Flash icon.
What do I need to do
> to
> get my buttons to show up? I would appreciate any help
you can give. Thank
> You.
> P.S. I'm on a Mac with OS 10.4 (tiger)
>

Help with flash buttons actionscript 2.0

Help please, I am not sure what I am doing wrong here. Each button has this script
on (release) {
getURL("http://www.mysite.com/index.html");
Once they work I want to import them to dreamweaver.

Do you happen to have any kind of rollover code tied to anything that is containing the buttons? I don't see the sense in having Flash buttons unless you have some form of animation associated with them, possibly triggered by rollover interactions. If so, the rollover may be blocking access to the on(release) interaction.

Help! Flash Button Troubles

O.K., Hello again everyone got yet another rookie question so
hopefuly y'all have the answer... I am using Dreamweaver MX and
using the preset Flash Buttons that come with it the "slider"
button in particular now I have edited this button and specified a
link (photoshop.htm) coming from (index.htm) but when I upload the
files to the server and try to test it, my index.htm comes up and
is perefect but the button will not link when clicked, it does
everything it is supposed to except take me to another page. I
inspected the code and saw no reference to the page it is to link
to, so attched is the code for y'all to see. Pleez HELP!
-P.S.- also with these buttons I must click to activate them
is there a way around having to click on them before they will
animate?
.

Don't use Flash buttons. That answer is simple! 8)
There are several really good reasons not to use them -
1. They are inaccessible
2. They can't be spidered
3. They aren't usable by those who don't have Flash
installed.
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"Quesstt" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> O.K., Hello again everyone got yet another rookie
question so hopefuly
> y'all
> have the answer... I am using Dreamweaver MX and using
the preset Flash
> Buttons
> that come with it the "slider" button in particular now
I have edited this
> button and specified a link (photoshop.htm) coming from
(index.htm) but
> when I
> upload the files to the server and try to test it, my
index.htm comes up
> and is
> perefect but the button will not link when clicked, it
does everything it
> is
> supposed to except take me to another page. I inspected
the code and saw
> no
> reference to the page it is to link to, so attched is
the code for y'all
> to
> see. Pleez HELP!
>
> -P.S.- also with these buttons I must click to activate
them is there a
> way
> around having to click on them before they will animate?
> .
>
> <object
classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
> codebase="
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#ve
> rsion=5,0,0,0" width="205" height="72">
> <param name="BASE" value=".">
> <param name="movie" value="photosh.swf">
> <param name="quality" value="high">
> <param name="bgcolor" value="#000000">
> <embed src="photosh.swf" width="205" height="72"
quality="high"
> pluginspage="
http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Vers
> ion=ShockwaveFlash" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
bgcolor="#000000"
> base="."></embed>
> </object>
>

Flash Buttons in Dreamweaver

Hey Everyone
So i have these Flash buttons on my website(which is done in
Dreamweaver), and when i go to 'test' the site... the buttons will
work when the page first loads(Home)... but if i go to click on a
link, lets say "Contact", the buttons aren't there anymore! And if
i go back to "Home" they arent there either!!
Does anyone have any suggestions or solutions to this
problem?!
Thanxs much in advance!!
-Liz

>>actually, i do have the OBJECT tags...
>> but if i go to click on a link, lets say "Contact",
the buttons aren't
>> there anymore!
Do you have the Flash buttons on all web pages was my point.
In other words,
did you have the same Flash buttons on the Contact page?
>>Can someone take a look at my code and see whats
wrong with it?
/intro_buttons.swf
Is the intro_buttons.swf in the web site root folder -- what
/ means? On the
local drive the / could mean the root folder of the computer
if you are not
testing under
http://.
Lon Hosford
www.lonhosford.com
May many happy bits flow your way!
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actually, i do have the OBJECT tags...
Can someone take a look at my code and see whats wrong with
it?
Thanxs!
<tr>
<td colspan="14">
<object classid="clsid
27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
codebase="
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#ve
rsion=6,0,29,0" width="422" height="25">
<param name="movie" value="/intro_buttons.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<embed src="/intro_buttons.swf" quality="high"
pluginspage="
http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="422"
height="25"></embed></object>
</td>
</tr>

No more Flash Buttons in Dreamweaver CS4?

The removal of Flash button extensions are pretty pathetic. How much development money and time does it take to include and already existing feature?
Also, if no one uses them (Ya I was told in a previous post I seen) The why is Microsoft Expression Web including something sort of like them in their software!
The removal of these, after I have bought the already overpriced CS4 from CS3, has prompted me to look at other software development tools.
I been using Dreamweaver since the 1.0 version but now I'm starting to use Expression Studio for my development needs. I think it sucks that simple navigation buttons and includes are removed when they are included in even $20 pieces of Web Development software.
Some idiot actually posted that if someone needs to use navigation extensions, then they should use the CS3 for adding them! Why upgrade then?
For all the money your charging for your software it should make coffee for me too!

I have locked this thread. It's not really a discussion - just a rant. and it's a duplicate of a previous post.

Need help using flash buttons

Can anyone help me with flash buttons? I am trying to build
my first website, and my five flash buttons (inside a 5 col. table)
for page navigation work fine in testing all 5 web pages with
mozilla firefox, and they look the same on the index page when
testing with IE-7. However when I begin navigating to other pages
in IE-7, the flash buttons disappear, and the 5 cols in the table
where each flash button was placed now are not equal sizes anymore
like they are on the index page. In my files area on the right, I
notice 3 out of the five buttons I created have about 15 to 20
"generations" shown there, with numbers 1 through 15 or even more
to qualify them tacked on to the end of the names. Where do these
come from, and why are 2 out of the five only have 1 "generation"
each? I never expected this, and I think it has something to do
with the problem, but maybe not. Please help me if you can!

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...
Your problem is caused by navigating away from the previewed
page. In
general, this is not a good thing to do, since root relative
links will not
work as expected when you do that (locally).
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"dreamnovice" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> Can anyone help me with flash buttons? I am trying to
build my first
> website,
> and my five flash buttons (inside a 5 col. table) for
page navigation work
> fine
> in testing all 5 web pages with mozilla firefox, and
they look the same on
> the
> index page when testing with IE-7. However when I begin
navigating to
> other
> pages in IE-7, the flash buttons disappear, and the 5
cols in the table
> where
> each flash button was placed now are not equal sizes
anymore like they are
> on
> the index page. In my files area on the right, I notice
3 out of the five
> buttons I created have about 15 to 20 "generations"
shown there, with
> numbers 1
> through 15 or even more to qualify them tacked on to the
end of the names.
> Where do these come from, and why are 2 out of the five
only have 1
> "generation" each? I never expected this, and I think it
has something to
> do
> with the problem, but maybe not. Please help me if you
can!
>

Help with flash buttons please

hi i wondered if anyone could take a look at this for me
please?
http://beechhouse.yorkwebsites.co.uk
why is it in explorer you have to click the button to
activate it and then click it again to go to the page? and how can
i fix this please?

It's IE-only behaviour as a result of changes Microsoft made
earlier this
year to their browser, regarding how Active Content (Flash,
Quicktime etc)
is handled, after losing a high profile court case.
http://blog.deconcept.com/2005/12/15/internet-explorer-eolas-changes-and-the-flash-plugin/
Background:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eolas
See also
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/activecontent/
If you're running Dreamweaver 8.0.2, the fix is already built
into DW's
interface.
If not, try
http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/
Using Flash buttons for navigation can negatively affect your
site's
usability - you know that, right?
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> hi i wondered if anyone could take a look at this for me
please?
>
>
http://beechhouse.yorkwebsites.co.uk
>
> why is it in explorer you have to click the button to
activate it and then
> click it again to go to the page? and how can i fix this
please?
>

Adding a url to flash buttons in Dreamweaver

I have a web site built and I have recently added Flash buttons and I need to add my web pages to the buttons. How would I go about doing this?

Let's say you create a button symbol. 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);

Help my Flash Buttons

I'm using flash buttons in my web site. In lieu of underlined
text. Well they work fine in the development tool but when i put
them on my site they don't work at all????? What could the problem
be????Tried different directories still dont work????
Mitch

> what would you suggest in lie of the flash buttons
Graphics (GIF/JPG/PNG), or CSS-styled text.
> why are they on ly on hobby sites????
Because -
1. Those who don't have the Flash plugin installed will not
see the link.
2. Those who require screen assistive devices will not see
the link.
3. Search engine spiders will not see the link (so your site
will not be
indexed).
4. If you move or rename a file to which this button is
linked, the link in
the button will not be automatically updated to reflect the
change you just
made.
5. They look creepy.
6. I can't remember this one.
7. It's a maintenance problem for you (I just added this so
the list would
look longer).
Do those work?
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> what would you suggest in lie of the flash buttons and
why are they on ly
> on hobby sites????

Link Custom Flash Buttons in Dreamweaver?

Hello,
I created an animated button in flash and tried to link it up
in Dreamweaver with no success. I don’t understand why I can
use generic animated buttons that DW offers and have a link for
them but, when I create my own DW doesn’t offer a link. All
I’m trying to do is link to a different page on my site. I
tried to use “getURL” in the action script in flash and
got that to work but, I really didn’t want to open a new
browser. Can anyone help?
60vette

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 addition, you cannot add a link to a Flash element using
HTML. That link
must be added in the Flash itself.
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"60vete" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> Hello,
> I created an animated button in flash and tried to link
it up in
> Dreamweaver
> with no success. I don?t understand why I can use
generic animated buttons
> that
> DW offers and have a link for them but, when I create my
own DW doesn?t
> offer a
> link. All I?m trying to do is link to a different page
on my site. I tried
> to
> use ?getURL? in the action script in flash and got that
to work but, I
> really
> didn?t want to open a new browser. Can anyone help?
> 60vette
>
>

Need help: enter flash file in Dreamweaver site with dark background

Hi,
I've entered a SWF in a dreamweaver site with a dark blue
background. When you view the site in a browser there is a white
square (the size of the flash file) that flashes up for a second
before the file starts loading. This is rather ugly and I was
wondering if anyone knew how to avoid this white square from
flashing up.
I already tried making the table background dark blue and
adding a dark blue square as a background image, but that has not
made any difference.
If you'd like to see what it does, this is a link to one of
the pages: www.billmather.co.uk/portraits.htm
Thank you in advance for any help or advice you can give me!

Hi Horus,
Thank you for getting back to me. I found it, and tried it.
But still does not seem to make a difference. This is what the code
in dreamweaver now looks like:
<script type="text/javascript">
AC_FL_RunContent( 'codebase','
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0','wid th','850','height','660','src','flashFilesBill/landscapes','quality','high','pluginspage', 'http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer','movie','flashFilesBill/landscapes'
); //end AC code
</script>
<noscript>
<object
classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0"
width="850" height="660">
<param name="bgcolor" value="#000033" />
<param name="movie"
value="flashFilesBill/landscapes.swf">
<param name="quality" value="high">
<embed src="flashFilesBill/landscapes.swf" quality="high"
pluginspage="
http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="850"
height="660"></embed>
</object>
Did I enter it correctly? (I also tried it as <param
name="bgcolor" value="#000033"> but that did not work either) Or
do we still need to find another solution?
Thanks ever so much for all your suggestions and ideas. I
truly appreciate it.

Help Brining Flash button to Dreamweaver/webpage?!?!

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