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Back Button Issues, HELP, Please
Well, guys, first of all I want to thank you for taking your precious time and looking into thid issue.
When I play my movie everything is fine and I made a button that lets you jump from different pages to the main page. But when you push the BACK button on the browser it jumps to a page previous to mine. So, for example if I was on the Yahoo site just before and then enters my site and click the BACK button it jumps to Yahoo site, and not to main page of my site. IS this a tricky question, is there any soul out there who can help me? Thank you!!!

Sincerely

Blackbane

Help I Am Going To Throw Away My Computer Browser Back Button Issues
Okay for a couple months now I have been trying to figure out a way to get the browser back button in netscape 7 to work with the flash. I already have the anchor's in place and the LocalConnection code up and running. It all works beautifuly inside IE but it seems that no matter what I do I can't get it to work inside netscape. Does anyone have a solution for this?

btw I have tried to fix this & I am working in Flash 8 but I can downgrade to 7 as well, please I am begging for help here! Thank you!

Can You Use The Back Button In A Browser To Go Back To Go Back In A Flash Movie?
Hi
In html pages it is easy to go back (the back button in the browser) to the last page you were on. But when you have got a flash site in a html page you cannot go back to the last page in the flash site using the 'back' button in the browser. Is there anyway you can change this so that you can use the back button in a browser to go back to the last flash frame?

Keyboard Back Button Acting As Browser Back Button
I'm having problems with a Flash MX Sign up form I'm implementing on my website.

The form has a series of frames which take the user through the sign up process, before clicking through to the online payment gateway. Each of these frames is anchored to allow the user to click the browser Back button to go back to the previous frame (rather than the previous movie).

However, the keyboard back button is now acting as a browser back button.... Any ideas why?

Any help with - or solutions to this probelm - would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance for your time.

Regards

Rob

Keyboard Back Button Acting As Browser Back Button
I'm currently implementing a subscription sign up form in Flash MX. All of the frames of the sign up movie are anchored so that the user can click Back on his/her browser and go back to the previous frame of the movie.

However, when the user now tries to delete/amend info (eg, first name, username, etc) on the form using his/her keyboard Back button, it triggers the browser Back button.

Anyone out there experienced a similar sort of problem - ie, why the keyboard Back button is acting as the Browser Back button?

If anyone has any ideas/solutions, I'd appreciate any input.

Cheers

Rob

Using Back Browser Back Button On SWF Loaded Site
I have created a web site that runs on loading different swf files. These files contain navigation and plain content. My problem is that I need to use the browsers back button. I dont think I can do this with anchor tabs. Help meeeee. It's driving me nuts. I don't see any questions out there that address this on a site that is with multiple swf files.

Anybody?

Issues Linking Buttons Back To A Higher Level
Hi

I'm having problems linking buttons back to a higher level in Flash MX.

I'm trying to link a button back to the original file from a movie that has been loaded into a layer on top of it (eg, layer 2, 3, etc)

For example:

My index page = layer 0
I want to load a movie onto layer 2. I need a button in that movie on layer 2 which will take me back to the index page on layer 0.

All my attempts to do this have so far failed.

Can anyone help? (I'm sure it's something really simple I've overlooked)

Cheers

Rob
rjb@ace.edu.au

'counter' Issues - How To Go Back To Start Once All External Swfs Are Loaded?
Hi, I have the following code which loads various external swfs and plays them. Once each swf has finished playing, it goes to the next swf. Each swf is named file1.swf, file2,swf, file3,swf, etc.
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (counter == null) {
loadMovieNum("file1.swf", 1);
counter = 2;
} else if ((_level1._totalFrames != undefined) && (_level1._currentFrame == _level1._totalFrames)) {
filename = "file"+counter+".swf";
loadMovieNum(filename, 1);
counter++;
}But my problem is this:

They'll never be any way of knowing how many external swf files they'll be in the directory at any one time, because it will change regularly. How can I get the code to loop back to the beginning after the counter has reached how ever many external swfs there are in the directory? Does that make sense? Basically, I need the code to go back to the start when it can't find any more swfs to load.

My actionscript is terrible, and I've been hitting my head against a brick wall for a long time with this. I REALLY hope someone can help me!

Thanks so much,

Stu

Using Back Button In Flash "like A Browser Back Button"
hey all/reef,

basically this code will work like a browser back button its very simple but "could end up very long" basically it will act "similiar to the browser back button"

Code:
on (release) {
if(page1 = _currentframe){
_root.gotoAndStop("quiz");
} else if (page0 = _currentframe){
_root.gotoAndStop("register");
} else if (page2 = _currentframe){
_root.gotoAndStop("q2");
} else if (page3 = _currentframe){
_root.gotoAndStop("q3");
} else if (page4 = _currentframe){
_root.gotoAndStop("speciality");
}
}
it works when the (page1 = _currentframe){ is rotated with the first if statement...because for somereason it seems to not recognise the "else if's" anybody or reef have any ideas why??

Back Button In Flash Projector Like Javascript's "history.back"
Please tell me how to make a back button in Flash for projector (exe) file. The back button should function like the javascript's "history.back". I have 100 scenes that points to one target scene. If a user clicks the back button in the target scene, he/she must go to the scene from where he came.

**** I am not looking for named anchors that works for swf file in browser.

Questions Re: Button Event Code Syntax W/ Variables & Browser Back Button Programming
SHORT VERSION OF MY QUESTION
I have some variables in my movie named backMovie & backFrame, Then I have a button that I'd like to attach the following code to, but obviously I've formatted it incorrectly. Could anyone please offer me the correct syntax for using variables in these instances.

on(press){
loadMovieNum('"+backMovie+".swf',1);
}
on(release){
_level1.gotoAndPlay(backframe);
}

LONG VERSION OF MY QUESTION
I have a movie and my client has now said they cant live without the back and forward buttons on the browser working.....Grrrr

So I did some research on programming the browser back button but determined that it wasn't cross-browser friendly and therefore it was safer to try and create a back button within my movie. The problem is I am loading several multi level swf's and also am a very novice actionscripter (so I'm sure my way is the looong way)

Anyway, I managed to create several variables that change each time a different navigation element is clicked.

What I'm trying to do is reference some of these variable in the programming of my movies own 'back button'. But I don't know how the code should look. My variable names are 'backMovie' & 'backFrame'.....and I've tried variations of the following:

on(press){
loadMovieNum('"+backMovie+".swf',1);
}
on(release){
_level1.gotoAndPlay(backframe);
}

But they don't work

If it helps, I've uploaded my practice files to: http://www.lucid-life.com/back-button-workaround.zip

(It would be a bonus to learn that the actual back button of the browser could be programmed with this actionscript...but I dont think that's possible...is it? and using the anchors method with the back button woudln't work because I'm using levels...right?)

Any help or advice greatly appreciated!
Many Thanks in advance

Cheska

Tell Flash Which Button Is The Previous Button So It Can Goes Back To Normal
i have many buttons with rollOver and rollOut states... when the user clicks on a button the button stays red.. when the user clicks another button that button stays red and the previous button goes back to normal..

well how do i tell flash which button is the previous button so it can goes back to normal as the next button clicked goes red???

please help

How Can I Make My Button Revert Back When Another Button Is Chosen?
http://filebox.vt.edu/users/gyanez/f.../main_menu.fla
http://filebox.vt.edu/users/gyanez/f.../main_menu.swf

I am creating the navigation bar for my first Flash site. This is what I want to have happen:

When user first enters site the "home" button is already highlighted and disabled since this is the first page user sees. When the user rolls over another menu item that item gets highlighted while previous button choice remains highlighted too..BUT when user clicks the new menu chocie the previous highlighted menu choice should revert back to its other state since the user is now on a new part of the site.

I cant seem to get this done with what I currently have...looks like buttons dont have hierarchy so I cant tell it to do something like: HB.HB_up_mc.gotoAndPlay(2);

Any help would be appreciated.

Flash Button And The Browser BACK Button
I have a Flash Button that I'm using to drop a user down to an anchor link at the bottom of the page I'm on.

When the Flash button drops the user down to the anchor that's intended...afterward....when the user hits the browser BACK button to be taken back to the original position above within the page.....it instead takes them to the previous page visited.

How do you set the Flash button to remember the original position and go to this position when the BACK button within IE 6 is used?

Thanks!

SKURGE

Back Button Replays Button Slide In.
I have a flash menu that the buttons slide in. When you click on one of the buttons it links off to an html page. When a user pushes the back button on their browser, the buttons slide in again, is there any way to stop this, when they go back it should just be the buttons in their final positions.

Thanks

Mike

Adding A Button To An Menu (issues With Copied Button)
I have a horizontal Flash banner/ menu that needs one more link. Each of the buttons is a movie clip where it sways onto the stage on load, does some swirly thing when moused over with a little noise.

I am not a big Flash user, but I attempted to add the missing button by copying one of the existing buttons and changing the text. Since all I did was create a duplicate, the new button seems to 'share a brain' with the button it was copied from. Editing either copy results in changes to both.

I think I need to do is something like "swap symbol" to create an entirely new object that can be edited independently of the original, but I attempted that and the new and copied button were still reflecting each others changes.

What step am I missing? When I "swap symbol", what should I be swapping for - do I need to make a completely new button complete with all the fancy things it is doing, or is there a way to use a copy?

This is in Flash CS3.

Scripting "Back" Button In Flash-to Work Like "Back" In IE Or NS
I'm trying to create a "Back" button in Flash. I have a massive presentation with a nav menu throughout. I want to add a "Back" button that will take the user to the previously loaded swf. Can anyone help me out?

Button Issues: Button Inside MC Not Working
Hey guys...
I am having an issue with a button nested within a movie clip not responding to mouse events.

FILES--------------------------------------

SWF: http://dev.emeraldcoast.com/seatownp.../flashMap.html

FLA: http://dev.emeraldcoast.com/seatownp...flashMap_5.fla

---------------------------------------------
The movie is a map viewer, I have some locations on the map that i want to display some info about in a "thought bubble" MC when the user mouses over an icon- in this case an airport icon for test purposes. I have my icon(button) placed inside the map(MC) which is masked on the main timeline. At runtime, the icon(button) will not respond and thus will not move the "thought bubble" MC and display the info.

The same buttons on the main timeline work perfectly. So, i assume it's something to do with the way flash propogates button events or something.

Code on main timeline:

ActionScript Code:
//moves Info Bubble to mouse location
function moveBubble() {
setProperty("bubble",_visible, "1");
var x = (_xmouse - bubble._x) * .3;
var y = (_ymouse - bubble._y) * .3;
if (Math.abs(x) < 1 && Math.abs(y) < 1) {
bubble._x += (_xmouse - bubble._x);
bubble._y += (_ymouse - bubble._y);
anchor.x = _xmouse;;
anchor.y = _ymouse;

} else {
bubble._x += x;
bubble._y += y;
anchor.x += x;
anchor.y += y;
}
}

Code on Icon(button)

ActionScript Code:
on (rollOver) {
anchor = {x: this._xmouse, y: this._ymouse};
this.onEnterFrame = _root.moveBubble;
_root.bubble.TL = "Pensacola Regional Airport";
_root.bubble.description = "6255 Airport Road Pensacola, FL 33654";
}
on (rollOut) {
this.onEnterFrame = null;
setProperty("_root.bubble", _visible, "0");
}

I really need to get this thing working. Deadline coming up!

Thanks in advance for your help!

Back Button, Next Button, Exit Button
I have created a flash MX project by linking from scene to scene. and i don't know how to apply the actionscript for the "back" button, "next" button as well as the "exit" button. for the Back and Next (just like we have in our browsers). for the "exit" button, when the user click on it, it will display a confirmation message. can someone please help me.

thank you..

Back Button/ History Button...
Does any body know if it is possible to go back to the previous page ion a flash site. Like the history button in HTML. So the viewer goes back to the page they have just visited.

Chhers. Vic. :-)

Back Button Forward Button
Hola
I tried placing named anchors in the frames that i want the user to go back / forwards to. it seemed to take okay.
when i tried F12 in Flash, it worked !
now, when i move it over to Dreamweaver and try the old F12 routine, it doesnt work at all !
why this discrepancy ? im very confused now.
can anyone help out on this one ?

Back Button
does anyone know how to make a back button work in flash to go between the scenes????
Joanna

Back Button
Hi there,

I want to create a BACk button in my flash movie, that takes me back to the last url visited, ie the same use as the browser back button. Is that possible?

cheers

Back Button
Hi,
I have a button in flash. What i want is, when i click the button, it should integrate with javascript and give me the previous html page. Quite simply it shud be a back button which gives me the previous page.

Thanks in advance.

The Back Button
I am making a Flash website, and I would like to have the back button on it (because the explorer link doesn't work correctly). So this is what I tried :
on (release){
gotoandStop("previous")
}
The problem is that the keyframes don't allways follow each other.
Help please...

Back Button
Anyone know how I can create a back button so that the last swf file is visited?

Just like javascripts history.back function.

Help greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

Back Button
Greetings, is it possible (in Flash) to create a back button that will take the user to the previous web page? Let me make that clear, I do not want a back button that will take the playhead to a different position, I want it to figure out what the previous html page was.

I have constructed a web site that uses flash navigation AND html (html for the main body content). Originally I had placed a "back" link in the html but they want me to remove it from there and place it in the Flash navigation file.

What should I do?

Back Button
Hello,
Does anyone know what script I would put to a button to make it go back to the previous movie clip, basically like a back button.

: Thanks

Back Button
hi everyone

I've been trying to add a back button which would return me from a nestled MC (I will call MC2) to the beginning of the MC which it is nestled in (call this one MC1). Both MCs are in the same scene and all MCs have an instance name and label. When I use GotoAnd Play I always end up at the beginning of MC2 (regardless if I use the instance names with scene name etc.), when I use Telltarget, the button just doesn't work and onClipEvent always is grayed out. Can anyone help me out? I'm not very good at actionscript but so far gotoAndPlay buttons leading to new MCs always worked, but these nestled MCs are a bit too tricky for me!
I've tried to use _parent or _root but these don't seem to work or else I don't write out the correct action. Please help.
Thanks!!

Back Button
I am trying to make a button to go back to prior web page. In html I use javascript line:

javascript:window.history.go(-1);

However, in flash I use geturl then this line and it does not work?

I assume there is a simpler way in flash to goto prior web page?

Back Button
Hello my FK Friend

You saved my life so many times and I hope you will help me again.

My Problem:

I have a Movie wiht 5 Frames (Could be more or less)
There is a stupid navigation but it has to be like this.
Whit this navigation an can jump from 1 to 3 and from there
to 2 and form there to 5 and so on and so on. No I need a script
to jump back. For example. I klick the menu and jump the frames:

1, 3, 2, 5, 4
No I need a button where I can go back. For each click it should
move backwards: 4, 5, 2, 3, 1

Hope there is a possibility. I would be so happy for any help.

Thanx and sorry for my bad english.

Regards #nik

Back Button
I am working with my school's Web site and there are A LOT of pages on it! I want to create a back button in Flash 5 that when you push it, it goes back to the previous page. This button will be on quite a few pages, and the only way i can think to do it in flash is to use the get URL action and link it to each link...but that will mean i have to create about 20 of the same buttons, each with a different link. i don't want that! How can i do this?

Back Button?
Hi,

Does anyone know how to make a Back Button in flash?

I have a movie on the main timeline, and target various sections using frame names. Is there a way to create a back button to help users navigate the site?

TIA
-- spiral

Back Button
does anyone know how to create a back button that will take user to previous scene? I did go to previous scene but it's not working. Thanks.

How Do They Do The Back Button Like This?
Hello,

I need to find out how this works:

http://www.macromedia.com/newsletter...ge_edge_050203

You can use the back button and it takes you back to parts of the flash movie. Please help me find out how they are able to do this.

Thanks!

Back Button
Is there a way that I could create a back button in Flash?. What I need is a button to do the same exact thing as the back button on the internet browser. I need it to go back to the last movie loaded and to the same exact frame where it was.

thanks
tom

Back Button
Got a question.... you all know what happens if you click on the back button of ur browser... yes... the flashmovie doesn't work.... So what do I do.. I make a back button in the flash movie...

Now in a reaply to my question... someone awnsered.

"Flash MX has a way to tackle this problem by defining a frame label as a "named anchor" (see property inspector).

When you export your Flash project with the correct template from the publish settings you'll be able to use the browser back button to browse through the named anchors in your Flash project. "

and what I did is this:

I marked the "named Anchor" on. then published it.. and watched it in the.. html flash published... and ..well... it doens't work... Did I forget to do something?

and he didn't awnser back... So does anybody else know... What I need to do now?

thanks in advance for the help.

Tianshi

Back Button
what is the action scripting for a back button between scenes???

Back Button
So I have made a porfolio site all in flash and published it so it is imbeded in a html page and I realized the back button on the browser does not control what happens in my site. I need to make a back button in my flash site so the user can have the control of going back or not. What is the scripting I have to do for my back button. Do I have to create an array??? I have no idea.

Is there an easier way around this. Can I publish each Scene on Seperate HTML pages and then link them together., and then u can use the back button in the browser. The different scenes are the different sections I have in my site and I don't know how to publish each scene seperately in flash.
oh i dont know, pleae help someone.

Jack Hagopian

Back Button
How do you make a back between scenes in flash MX????????????????

Back Button
hi guys,
i was just wondering if you could please help me with a problem I have. i need to make a back button for a picture viewer and I cant seem to get it to work. this is the ac on the 'next' button:

Code:
onClipEvent (load) {
var p = 1;
function callPic() {
for (i=0; i<1; ++i) {
var h = "pic"+p+".jpg";
loadMovieNum(h, 1);
p++;
if (p == 19) {
p = 1;
}
}
}
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
this.onMouseDown = function() {
callPic();
};
}
thanks guys

[edit]
using flash mx
[/edit]

How Doi Do Back Button
i have a button, i just need to know the action script to make it on release go to previous scene and play. anyone know?

Back Button
Is there a ActionScript to make a button react the same as the back button on the internet explorer?
It has to make it go back 1 history page only.

If so could this Button be added to a page that opens in a new window and could it force the page to go back one, within the new window, even though the internet explorers back button is greyed over.

Deen

Thanks for your input

Back Button
I created an entire website using flash. I uploaded to the server. The problem is when I press the BACK button in the toolbar in the Browser I am taken out of my site.

How do I 'grey' that Back Button out so someone can't leave the site.

Help!

Back Button
Hi
how do I make a back button work so the viewer can return to previous page? what would be the script for it, I saw an execise on flash kit but have know clue how that works.

What's The Best Way To Do A Back Button?
So I have been talking to people learning that the best way to make sections load is using the loadMovie(new.swf) method instead of simply switch scenes...this allows for better load times in between instead of one big file right? Well, I am having some troubles as mentioned in my other posts, but my big question is this:

What is the best way to implement a "Back" button when using a multi-file multi-section flash site?