Targeting a frame with a flash button

I am trying to target the main frame of my frameset with a
flash button located in the left frame. button works fine when i
target _self, _top.... or the frame it is in. but if i try to
target any of the other frames in the frameset it has no effect

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http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash5/frames.htm
Some of the Adobe team
> > maybe
> > on May hols. As yet I hav't touched on frames,
sorry petromilka .
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> > Seing as you tried everything else did you try
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> I have tried Murray with the 'nested templates' but to
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Targeting a frame with a button

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> Problem with Frames in Dreamweaver 2004 mx using Flash
9. When using Flash
> buttons in Dreamweaver within a frame and specifing a
target frame the
> flash
> button loads a new page in another window and not in the
frame specified.
>
> Steps to reproduce:
>
> Dreamweaver: New Wesbite / "Create from samples" /
Framesets / Select
> "fixed
> left"
> In the left frame insert a Flash Button and link it to a
page to load in
> the
> mainFrame.
>
> What went wrong?:
>
> When the flash button is pressed the page loads in a new
Internet Explorer
> window instead of loading in mainFrame frame.
>
>
> What should have happened?:
>
> When the flash button is pressed the page should load
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> frame.
>

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my flash buttons are clicked the links are opening up in new tabs
within the browser, rather than in my frameset. I have the target
for the flash buttons specified to "mainFrame" within my frameset ,
however this is not working. Are there attributes that define
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Thanks!
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Flash buttons and framesets! My two favorite things to hate.
Gad.
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have to be done
either at the time you create it, or by editing the parent
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created the button in DW, then that second option is not
available to you
because there is no parent FLA file.
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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?
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your site's
needs, and b) your willingness to accept the potential
problems that frames
can create for you as developer and maintainer of the site
and for your
visitors as casual users of the site.
I am down on frames because I believe that they create many
more problems
than they solve.
Judging from the posts here, and the kinds of problems that
are described,
the kind of person most likely to elect to use frames is also
the kind of
person most likely ill-prepared fo solve the ensuing problems
when they
arise. If you feel a) that you understand the problems and b)
that you are
prepared to handle them when they occur, and c) that you have
a need to use
frames, then by all means use them.
As far as I know, the most comprehensive discussions of
frames and their
potential problems can be found on these two links -
http://apptools.com/rants/framesevil.php
http://www.tjkdesign.com/articles/frames/
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> buttons
> are clicked the links are opening up in new tabs within
the browser,
> rather
> than in my frameset. I have the target for the flash
buttons specified to
> "mainFrame" within my frameset , however this is not
working. Are there
> attributes that define whether the link opens up a new
tab or stays within
> the
> frameset? Thanks!
>
> -Rob
>

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button2 etc. I have put the flash component in Director and tested
that it is recieving variable button names successfully.
I want the button bar to change the director movie depending
on what button is pressed. I am able to have the buttons jump to
marker but not change movie.
I'm also trying to implement a roll-over information feature
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Director, a text box in Director displays information, eg. When the
user rolls over the "home" button, the information box reads "This
button takes you to the first page".
I'm pretty new to Director and randomly scouring the Lingo
help doesn't seem to be helping me :)
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It sounds like you want to have a number of different results
from these
flash button events. It also sounds like you have a number of
buttons in
the flash sprite.
As duckets said, you can use the getURL() actionscript method
to send
information to Director, either to a behavior attached to the
flash
sprite or to a movie script.
Director can interpret a mouse event on the Flash sprite, but
it can't
tell which object inside the flash sprite has been effected.
In other
words Director knows that the cursor rolled over the sprite,
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You will need to set up a strategy for working with these
flash buttons.
You will need to decide how much information to send to
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when to send that information.
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mouseDown and
mouseUp events. So one way to deal with this is to use the
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text display.
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button
instance. Then on the rollover, rollout and mouseup events,
send the
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simple case
statement to parse out the button's instance name and use
that name to
tell Director what to do.
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The write a series of functions for those buttons. Maybe
something like
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buttonArray
.onRollOver = sendRollOver;
buttonArray.onRollOut = sendRollOut;
buttonArray
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word and
the button name...
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var stringToSend:String = "up$"+ parseButtonName(this);
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Now you have a very simple flash movie that doesn't need to
be edited
every time something changes in the Director movie.
in Director make a behavior that will sit on the Flash
sprite:
property thisSprite
on beginSprite me
thisSprite = me.spriteNum
end
on getURL me,data
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member("text display member").text = ""
else
parseOut(data)
end if
end
on parseOut(thisString)
oldDelim = the itemDelimiter
the itemDelimiter = "$"
if thisString.item[1] = "roll" then
case (thisString.item[2]) of
"one": member("text display member").text =
"first button string"
"two": member("text display member").text =
"second button string"
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end case
if thisString.item[1] = "up" then
case (thisString.item[2]) of
-- similar to above
end case
end if
the itemDelimiter = oldDelim
end
Rob
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I had FIos phone service installed 2 weeks ago. I am having a sporadic but regularly occurring issue with incoming calls that I think might be related to the Call Waiting and flash button so I am looking for some input. Before describing the issue here are a couple of things to know:
- I have my Verizon voice mail service turned off on my account.
- I have the call waiting function set to off.
- On my phone handset the Talk and Flash operation is the same button.
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1. My home answering machine will pick up the call, however on my cell phone which is the calling end the phone is still just ringing.
2. Sometimes I will press the talk button but there will be dead air but on my cell phone which is the calling end it will still be ringing.. But if I press the Talk/Flash button a couple of times the call completes.
Since my Talk and Flash button are the same I started to wonder if that is a factor so I repeated scenarios above and found that after pressing the Talk button a couple of times then the call is answered and the phone stops ringing on the caller's end.
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Without buying a new phone you can test this. Unplug the phone that has the combination button. If its a cordless phone base station with multiple handsets, make sure you unplug those as well. Then use a regular phone plugged in to do test calls (if you dont have one you could maybe borrow one for a couple minutes from a friend, family, or neighbor).
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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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"LeichterLernen" <[email protected]> wrote
in message
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> Hey, I use some standard flash buttons from Dreamweaver
to navigate. I
> have two
> frames in this web. The buttons are in frame "A" and
refer to a target in
> frame
> "B". This worked perfectly fine, even with IE 7 in
Windows XP it still
> works.
> But in Windows VISTA every button opens a new browser
windows.
>
> Windows VISTA, IE 7, Dreamweaver 8, running the web on
my HD
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Sky
>

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