Rollovers with .swf

I'm new to Dreamweaver...pardon the newbie question.
Is there a way to create a rollover with and image and .swf
movie? Basically I want to have the .swf playing, and when you
rollover a box with text appears. Any thoughts?
And...if this is possible, would I be able to turn the text
on the image into links like usual?

It's not clear what you are asking.
What does the SWF have to do with anything? Where does the
box with text
appear?
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"Kristen Ippolito" <[email protected]> wrote
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> I'm new to Dreamweaver...pardon the newbie question.
> Is there a way to create a rollover with and image and
.swf movie?
> Basically
> I want to have the .swf playing, and when you rollover a
box with text
> appears.
> Any thoughts?
>
> And...if this is possible, would I be able to turn the
text on the image
> into
> links like usual?
>

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into MC_2 (on top), Then when another is clicked have the MC_2 SWF
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way it will look like the page you clicked is always sliding in
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>> I have no idea how to do this next part but... I
believe it involves a
gotoAndPlay. I would like to have animation in the movie that
is unloading
after the button for the next page to load is clicked... in
other words,
you
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new external
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page loads, the current performs a gotoAndPlay where I have
animated some
deconstructing swipes that remove the text, shapes holding
the text and them
the image, and ONLY THEN does it start to load the movie for
the link it
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loading of the
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<<
You don't use frames. I'd probably use Fuse for this - which
is a sequencing
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clips, or just
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method, and
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wise.
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