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Target Frames And Flash
Hey Guys,

I have a slight problem with Flash in that I have flash menu (menu.swf) in a top frame (topwindow) of an HTML doc, and I would like the getUrls in the actionscript of the menu.swf file to be opened in the frame below (mainwindow). The problem can be found at:

http://home.kooee.com.au/nickbal/athenas/index.htm

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Nick

Get Flash To Target One Of Two Frames In A DW Document How?
I have built a flash navigation system in flash and am dropping it into a dreamweaver document which is split into 2 different frames.

My problem is with the flash nav how do I get the right page to load into the correct frame when the nav is clicked?

I use actionscript so not a newbie by any measure but this is outside of my knowlegde and understanding...

Please help a confused chap out!!!

thanx in advance...

Target Div From Flash(no Frames Approach)
Been a while since I've been on but here w go with another problem solving thread. Check out this site_

http://www.tonybobdesign.com

If you click on the menu items you will see that the content below changes but the menu stays...like a framed page. This is because he uses a php script and div containers.

What I would like is to have a frameless page (xhtml compliant) with a flash movie at the top containing menu links like the one's at

www.astromech.co.uk.(this page uses frames).

When an item is clicked the div container below would load the content, just like in a framed page.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Best.
BRb

Target HTML Frames From A FLASH Navigation System
If I'm creating a FLASH Navigation System for an HTML document set up in frames, how do I direct the HTML documents I want to open, with on(release), to a specific frame in this set up?

Can Anyone Help?

Flash MX - Printing Multiple Frames
Flash MX - I'm loading a swf into a movie clip on the root of my movie. the swf contains 3 frames, on the first, printNum(this, "bmovie"), when this loads and prints, it brings up the print diaglogue box 3 times, it seems it does this for the number of frames you have, ie. 2 frames = 2 times.

Bottom line is i want to print 3 pages at a click on the button.
Any advice would be most happily received.

Flash Form Over Multiple Frames?
just wondering if it possible to create a flash form where the form spans over 5 forms i.e. there are inputs on 5 different frames. is this possible using php to get the variables even though they are not all on the same frame?

if not would it be easier to put the content that wont fit into the first frame outside the frame and use a button to control the x and y positions to move the next part into the window??

thanks for any help

david

Multiple Frames With Flash Drawing API
Hello, I was wondering if anyone here could tell me how to do something like this:

/*I know this code wouldn't work, it is just an example of what I want to do, so don't bother pointing out syntax errors*/

_root.createEmptyMovieClip("myClip", 1);

_root.myClip.MoveTo(.....)
_root.myClip.LineTo(.....)
//........A bunch of drawing code..........

//This should make a new frame in the movie
//and then select the new frame to be drawn on
//What would actually go here?
_root.myClip.nextFrame();

_root.myClip.MoveTo(.....)
_root.myClip.LineTo(.....)
//........A bunch of drawing code for frame 2 ..........

Anyone know how to do something like this?

Controlling Multiple Flash Movies In Frames
Hey guys,
I have 2 frames with a flash movie in each. I want to be able to control one movie via the other movie. LIke for example, from movie1.swf can i say gotoAndPlay(2) in movie2.swf which is in the other frame? I wasnt sure if this was possible. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
Don

Insert Multiple Frames Function In Flash?
hey there. wondering if there is a function in flash that allows you to insert multiple frames without having to camp on the F5 key forever... like, add 1000 frames. not a biggie, just a convenience ya know. thanks.

Printing Multiple Frames Of A Flash Movie
hi guys,

wondered if anyone knew a more efficient way around this problem…

I've created various of online banners and now I need to show the client a printed version of the flash banners... the prints need to show each stage of the animation…

At the moment, I am screen printing each part of the banners (cause I only have the swf's to work from)…

Does anyone know a way that you can set up flash to print at certain frames of a flash document? e.g. on hitting print, each 10th frame will be printed…

or any other suggestions for this are welcome…

cheers, rob

Flash MX - Apply External Stylesheet To Multiple Frames
I am new to Flash. I spent an entire day today trying to figure this out, but so far I have not been successful.

I have a .fla that rotates ten different quotes. The quotes are kept in an external .txt file.

I want to style this content using an external stylesheet. I created some actionscript in the first frame of the movie that loads the external stylesheet. It successfully styles the first quote. But the second through tenth quotes revert to the style applied during creation from within Flash MX.

And, when the movie loops, the style on the first quote takes a moment to display. Very odd.

The attached .zip has all the needed files: the .fla, .txt, and .css. Can someone take a look at this and let me know if it is possible to do what I am wanting to do?

Thanks ever so much!

Flash And IE 5 With Multiple HTML Frames = Blank White Space
Anyone know a workaround for this bull****? We took over a site that was designed this way and it's ****ed, basically.

HTML FRAMES— A "Top" and a "Bottom" Frame:

(The top frame has a Flash menu and the bottom frame has a Flash intro.)

1. The top frame displays fine, but....

2. The bottom frame is just white with the occasional blinking graphic (in other words, the Flash object is buggy and not displaying properly).

This is obviously only a problem with IE5 for Macs, as it was designed by people with PCs and it looks fine in Mozilla for Mac. Surely this must be a really old problem that has probably been fixed by the lastest Flash or the latest IE, but I need a fix for the old browser (IE5 for Mac OS 9.2).

Thanks,
Nate

Using Text Format For Multiple Fields In Multiple Frames
I'm trying to use Text Format to format all of my dynamic text fields in my movie. My code looks like this:

Code:
var content_fmt:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
content_fmt.color = 0x666666;
content_fmt.font = "Arial";
content_fmt.size = 12;
course_txt.setTextFormat(content_fmt);
I put it on the first frame of my movie. Unfortunately with setTextFormat, it needs to be set for every instance of text field. I don't want to have to copy and paste this code into keyframes across my whole movie. Is there a way to have it check for the field in each frame and apply the colors? Maybe with a for loop?

How Can I Load, Multiple Images Into Multiple Key Frames At Once..
Hey guys, I have this..pseudo 3d model viewer for my site that I am working on. The only problem is, I don't want to manually add every image to the flash...especially if I have 45 images or so and I am pretty sure there is no way to automate this in actionscript..

http://www.pcgamemods.com/slideshow/revolve.html

this is a pretty crude example but it shows you what I am aiming for. I just wanted to know if there was an easier way to add images to frames or if there was a program to do it for you.

Tell Target Across Frames?
I want my menu bar (flash) thats located in frame x to control the flash content located in frame y. More specifically, I want it to play a specific frame at the touch of a button. How do you send tell target information across like that?

http://www.ccic-cia.com (site in development)

Target Swf In Frames
I'm using Dreamweaver 4. Suppose you have two frames, a navigation (swf) on the left and a main frame on the right containing a different swf. I have no problem targetting different htm pages in the main frame from the flash navigation. But now I want to use one swf in the main frame. How do I target from the navigation swf to different points in the timeline in the main swf? I hope I made myself clear. Thanks.

Target Frames
I have the following code in my button script. The first link is opening in the correct target frame but the second link is opening in a new window. Someone please tell me how to fix this to work properly.

on (rollOver) {
gotoAndPlay(55);
}
on (press) {
getURL("http://www.your url.here", "name of target frame", "main");
}
on (press) {
getURL("http://www.your url.here", "name of target frame");
}
on (rollOut) {
gotoAndPlay(22);
}

Target Frames
I am having a problem where I want a link from a text menu in flash to change the top frame. I have tried to use _top but this causes the bottom frame to disappear. Is it better to try to use and invisible button rather than a text link? Am happy to provide FLA and other bits to someone who would like to help.

anyone want to share files fonts & tips?
I use msn messenger or yahoo messenger
xybaweb@hotmail.com

thanks

Web Frames Target
how can i load a certain html document into an iframe on the same page as the movie?

Target? Frames?
hey everyone! nice forum you have here!

what i am trying to do is split my site into frames, like in basic html code.. when i press a menu button i want the contents of the page to load in a frame next to it... how do i do this?? (pls tell me its easy enough to do, i dont have the power to go through another tuturial!! )

and one more thing.. can the contents of the file to be loaded be in .htm so they are easier to edit without using flash?? (im pretty sure this must be a stupid question, but im really just a newbie with too much faith in my powers!! )

tnx a looot!! kisses
anna

Target Frames & IE5.5/IE6.0
Can anyone help?

I have a frames page with a vertical split. The left half has a Flash menu, and each menu item opens a new Flash page in the right half. I've named the right frame "Main" and targetted the menu items accordingly using getURL.

It works in IE6.0, but not in IE5.5 (or below I imagine) - in 5.5 it seems to open in the _self frame instead, which means my menu page disappears.

Anyone got any ideas?

Thanks

Help - Frames Target
Can anyone please tell me why this won't work and a possible solution?
////////
on (release) {
getURL ("/ScopePhase/index.html", "_top");
gotoAndStop ("concept");
}
////////
In the index.html page that I am loading, there is a movie called Scope.swf, in that movie there is a frame label called "concept" that I want to go to but it will not work!!

Thank you for your time.

This Is How To Target Specific Frames In Swf From Another
Hey there everyone,
I have seen lots of posts asking how to target a specific frame in another swf from an original swf. I've personally wanted to know how to do it for the last 3 days and I've finally firgured out a way!!!!!

it basically involves 3 swfs not 2.
start.swf
one.swf
two.swf

The first movie, start.swf is _level0
this contains nothing but an action on the first frame saying
loadMovieNum("one.swf",2);

ie; load movie "one.swf" on level 2

"one.swf" is loaded. It contains a button that when pressed goes to a specific frame in "two.swf"

on the frame before the frame that contains your button in "one.swf", put a frame action saying
loadMovieNum('two.swf",1);

ie; load movie "two.swf" on level 1

This loads "two.swf" on the level underneath the one your currently looking at. This will be loading before the user presses the button on the next frame to tell "two.swf" what to do next.

on the next frame of your movie "one.swf", the frame that contains the button,
put a action on the button saying

on (release) {
_level1.gotoAndPlay("framelabel");
}

ie; on release tell _level1 (the one that contains "two.swf" to go to and play whatever frame label you want it to.

Then on the that frame(the one you've just told _level1 to go to and play in 'two.swf"
put a frame action saying
unloadMovie(2);

and the movie on level 2 ie "one.swf" will be removed so you can see "two.swf" which has been waiting underneath.

Hooooray, just thought it might be helpful to people!!

laurag

Target->frames For A Link
I have a flash menu bar (_navframe) in one frame and want to load the pages in a another (_mainframe) how is this accomplished?

i have tried:

on (release) {
getURL ("URL", "_mainframe");
}

but it loads the url in a new window

please advise

One Button: Target Two Frames
I have the following code in my button script. The first link is opening in the correct target frame but the second link is opening in a new window. Someone please tell me how to fix this to work properly.

on (rollOver) {
gotoAndPlay(55);
}
on (press) {
getURL("http://headlines.agapepress.org/users/rapionet/rapionet8.asp", "main");
}
on (press) {
getURL("http://d99881.u23.smartwebinc.com/html/index/left_nav.html", "left_nav");
}
on (rollOut) {
gotoAndPlay(22);
}

Target Movie Frames?
how do i target movie frames?
I know how to load a seperate movie but it starts on frame 1. I want the movie to start depending on what button was pressed in the main movie.

eg, lets say i have 4 buttons in my main movie. all buttons point to a movie (that has to load) but i want the movie to start on different frame numbers....
in other words, button A starts on frame 1
Button B...frame 2
Button C...frame 3
Button D...frame 4 etc.

any help please?

Any Way To Target Movies In Other Frames?
is there any possible way to give command to a separate movie in a different (html) frame?

I have a menu (html) frame with a flash menu, and a header (html) frame, with a flash header... i want to trigger (flash movie) frames in the swf plugin in the header html frame from the menu movie.

i hope this makes sence. thanks for any help. i ask because i have seen people use codes in the url line to trigger things in flash.

How Do I Target A Series Of Frames?
Hi,

Can someone help me--I need the user to click the mouse during a specific series of frames (5-8) of a running 20 frame timeline of a movieclip. If the user clicks during that series of frames, the textbox will read "Good Job," or something. However, if the user clicks before (1-4) or after (9-20) that series, the textbox reads "You Missed," or something.

The event handler is a simple button set to On Release.

Thanx for any help.

Caremerger

How To Target Buttons In Frames ?
I have trouble with buttons, slides and frames in my scool project. I made a Flash that should change banner picture by each button choise - but i dont get the behaviors to open the right page in main window at the page. Its going to be a simpe tourist web - and pictures is essential.

The basic choise is _self _parent ... and I need to open the page in mainwindow (hoved in norwegian)

When I try, Ill loose the banner effekt and the window opens in the banner window instead.

Here is the url to my page: http://www.mereteweb.com/webprosjekt/

And my flash menu lookes like attached...

Merete

Sorry, my english writing is bad !

Buttons To Target Frames In MX
having trouble getting buttons to target certain frames in flash MX.

I basically have a menu bar, and I am trying to get each button to target a specific frame in my timeline and also STOP at that point.
That way when a visitor comes to the site they can access all the information without the movie playing everything at once.

EXAMPLE:
My movie stops at from 20. Button1 on frame 20 should target frame 21. (once properly coded, I can handle the rest to get it to stop at let's say frame 30)
Button 2 (on frame 20) should target frame 31, and so on and so on.

All references I have been researching have been either old versions of flash, etc, etc. and you know how that goes.

Thanks in advance!!!!

Target HTML FRAMES From Within SWF
how can i target other other SWF's on same HTML FRAMES page?
i want to have a SWF in one HTML FRAME tell SWF in another HTML FRAME
to do something....also i want a button within a flash SWF movie to load a page from URL into FRAME of HTML page.
example...i have SWF animation with buttons that animate in(drop in for example) one of these buttons i want to load a HTML page.
please help

Target Html Frames HELP
Kirupa's tutorial on how to use Flash to target a certain frame in HTML doesn't work any more. The page opens up in a new window instead of in the targetted frame. This is the code that is used:
on (release) {
getURL("second.htm", "kirupa");
}
Does anybody know the solution to this?

Target Frames... Not Working...
Hello,
I have had this problem for awhile now and I was wondering if anyone had any workarounds or help on this. I created a webpage for a school and it contains both a flash site and a DHTML site. I have 3 frames in the flash version. One of which is called contframe and this where all the links are to be loaded into. In flash i used the getURL function and specified a target and all. In IE 6 MS Win XP Pro the first link on both version will always load into the correct frame. (Or so I think). However after ~3 links + or - a few, the links begin to load into new windows. This is very annoying for the visitors and me alike. However this problem isnt present in Netscape or Mozilla (same thing I know...). Has anyone experienced this before? If so are there any work arounds. I could just not use frames at all but that would involve creating 2 entirely different versions of the site and it would make it more difficult to update and maintain. The webpage is available here: http://www.claytonarts.org .

Please Help,
-Ramon

Target Two Html Frames
Could some one show me how to script a button that will target two seperate frames on my web page. just for explainging it to me you can use the urls called up:

http://www.cnn.com
http://www.ultrashock.com

and target frames:

main
navigate

thats just for use in your example. I can replace as needed.

Right now I have the following:

on (rollOver) {
gotoAndPlay(55);
}
on (press) {
getURL("http://headlines.agapepress.org/users/rapionet/rapionet8.asp", "main");
getURL("http://www.cnn.com", "navigate");
}
on (rollOut) {
gotoAndPlay(22);
}

but the cnn page isn't being displayed in the correct frame.

Framesets, Target Frames And 'getUrl'
Here is the situation. I've a simple frameset (index.htm) created in DreamweaverMX. The left frame (flash_menu.htm) using the target name of "menu" contians my flash menu that acts similer to windows explorer, with highlighted & collapsing menu options.
The target name for the larger right side frame of this frameset is "main" and is set to load (home.htm) to start.

-----code inserted may explain better than i could...
<frameset rows="*" cols="200,*" framespacing="0" frameborder="NO" border="0">
<frame src="flash_menu.htm" name="menu" scrolling="NO" noresize>
<frame src="home.htm" name="main">
</frameset>
-----

Now, on my flash menu, when i try to use the 'getUrl' component i'm given the options for a window for this url to appear, '_self', '_blank', '_parent' etc...

-----
on (release) {
gotoAndStop("ExhMgt");
getURL("exhibmgnt.htm", "_self");
}
----

None of these options will bring the page intended into the 'main' frame of the frameset. Loading into a new page or into the 'menu' frame is all i've managed to accomplish. I've tried creating my on 'window' variables "_main", "main" "that_right_frame_d*mn_you!") and had no luck..

How do i have it so the the flash menu stays at its current 'gotoAndStop' location and still loads the page where i need it in the right frame??

In my first html/swf project, the menu i created was basically a collection of flash buttons that were loaded into a table residing in the 'menu' frame. I handled all the page load/frame targeting thru Dreamweaver.. I, for the life of me, can't figure how to get Flash to handle it..

'please' tell me its something simple that i've not stumbled into yet :)

Thanks in advance..

Patrick

Movie Control With Target Frames
I'm trying to do something that seems like it should be simple, but I'm not having any luck. The problem is this:

I have a movie clip and several buttons, each of which corresponds to a particular frame in the movie clip. When you roll over the button corresponding to frame 10, for example, and the movie clip is stopped on frame 5, it should play until frame 10 and then stop. If it's on frame 20, the movie clip should play backwards until frame 10 and then stop.

Seems simple, but it has caused me no end of frustration. I rigged up something that kind of works using looped nextFrame and prevFrame statements, but it seems to ignore the frame rate and goes to the target frame as quickly as possible. Here's that actionscript:

on (rollover){
do {
if (movie1._currentframe > 9){
movie1.prevFrame();
}else if (movie1._currentframe < 9){
movie1.nextFrame();
}else{
movie1.stop();
}
}while (movie1._currentframe <> 9);
}

I would be extremely grateful if anyone could help with this. Thanks.

Target Paths Between HTML Frames
I have movieA in frameA of an HTML page and want it to give instructions to movieB in FrameB. I have found lots of info on target paths within a movie but can't find anything about targetting between HTML frames. Any help on this would be much appreciated.

Geturl And .xml Target Won't Open In Html Frames
Hi- I wondered if I could get some help from the experts. I just started using Flash/Studio MX 2 weeks ago so this may be a stupid question...but

I can't get a .swf to open another .swf in html frames in anything but _self or _blank (new window). I found a technote at macromedia on the subject

http://www.macromedia.com/support/fl...ts/get_url.htm

followed it to the letter, even created a new frameset to test in DW but alas...no such luck. I've had the same trouble using the Target= parameter with a component UI. What a drag. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.
-Andy

Help, I Copied Frames Form One Fla Into Another One And I Get A Target Error
Help, I copied frames form one fla into another one and I placed the frames in a movie, get a target error

Target not found: Target="_level0/bighair" Base=
"_level0.instance2934.hair"

I havent worked on that file in a little bit but _level0. is that top level(the main timeline)

how would i express that the target is in a movie on the main timeline?

Import Multiple Img To Multiple Frames
Hi all. What I want to do is import multiple images into multiple frames. Geez this is hard to explain.

OK I am useing a 3D modeling and rendering program called Blender to make some small animations. To get the effects I want I am rendering the animations as a series of .PNG image files. Then importing them to the library and placing them 1 at a time into individual frames, this is tedious and time consuming.

I would like to be able to select more than 1 image then place them onto the stage into individual keyframes.

Also after I would like to select all the frames and align the images all at 1 time instead of 1 at a time, is this even posible.

I'm a Flash noobie, I have a pretty good handle on it for only a couple of weeks experimenting with it. I just feel there has to be a better way of doing what I want, the help and tutorials answer most of my ???s.

Load Movie>Target And Check If Total Frames Loaded
I'm creating a site with a closing/opening door motif that reveals loaded .SWF's underneath. The .SWF's will be loaded into empty Movieclips. Everything occurs on _level0.

This is what's supposed to happen: Press the button and the doors Movieclip closes. Doors Movieclip loads the external .SWF into the empty Movieclip below. Doors Movieclip checks if the external .SWF has loaded, displaying loading percentage bar as it loads. Once loaded, doors Movieclip opens revealing loaded .SWF.

This is what actually happens: Press the button and the doors Movieclip closes. Loading percentage bar flashes quick and doors Movieclip opens revealing... surprise, nothing!

This works locally, but not online although neither show the percentage bar working. I'm working from a handful of preloader tutorials and AS books and my scripts look like they should work. (^_^)

View stripped down version: http://users.rcn.com/spz8/X.html

Download .FLA: http://users.rcn.com/spz8/X.fla.zip
Download external .SWF: http://users.rcn.com/spz8/testcontent1.swf.zip

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,
Steve

Why Cant I Target Multiple MC's?
I am trying to target two MC's with one call to set their alpha property.

I know I could just set another new Color object but was wondering why separating with a comma won't work.

I also failed targeting with an array.

on (rollOver) {
fadeValue=new Object()
fadeValue.aa=50;
myFade=new Color(Clip01,Clip02);
myFade.setTransform (fadeValue);
}

Thanks

Multiple Target
Hello everyone
I'm still new to Flash code. Could anyone help me with multiple target code?
I have boxes for buttons and put code:

on (press) {
tellTarget ("/down") {
gotoAndPlay(2);
loadMovieNum("portfolio1.swf", 1);
}
}

And
on (press) {
tellTarget ("/down") {
gotoAndPlay(2);
loadMovieNum("portfolio2.swf", 1);
}
}
on and on each buttons but only the first movie work but nothing else. I don't know why. Anyone let me know ASAP.
Thanks ^.^

Tell Multiple Target?
hey, I was just wondering if it was possible to target multiple movie clips in flash 5 for example right now my code goes:

Code:
on (release) {
tellTarget ("_root.drinks_mov") {
gotoAndStop (1);
tellTarget ("_root.events_mov") {
gotoAndStop (1);
tellTarget ("_root.smoke_mov") {
gotoAndStop (1);
}
}
}
}
is there a more concise way of doing this?
thanks. Danito