Flash :: Dreamweaver Flash Buttons: Navigation Problems

Flash Navigation In Dreamweaver
My website (done in Dreamweaver) has a navigation menu in Flash. I recently updated the .fla menu file and created 8 separate SWF files. Everything works fine from the homepage but when you go to secondary pages the menus are messed up. Words are missing and the text is out of order. The code to insert the Flash file looks like this is Dreamweaver. I was told that everything before "<object classid" is unneccesary but I have been hesitant to delete things because I am not that familiar with HTML. The site is www.farrdesign.com. This example is from the Custom Racing page under Designs. Any suggestions?


<A HREF=services.html></A> <A HREF=team.html></A> <A
HREF=new_designs.html></A> <A HREF=custom_racing.html></A> <A
HREF=custom_cruising.html></A> <A HREF=one_design.html></A> <A
HREF=prod_cruiser-racer.html></A> <A HREF=prod_cruising.html></A> <A
HREF=profile.html></A> <A HREF=index.html></A> <A
HREF=contact_info.html></A> <A HREF=awards.html></A> <A
HREF=javascriptopUp('louis_vuitton.html')></A> <A
HREF=javascriptopUp('volvo_recent_news.html')></A> <A
HREF=javascriptopUp('maxi.html')></A> <A
HREF=javascriptopUp('2003.html')></A> <A
HREF=javascriptopUp('2002.html')></A> <A
HREF=javascriptopUp('2001.html')></A> <A
HREF=javascriptopUp('archives.html')></A> <A
HREF=javascriptopUp('2004.html')></A> <A HREF=recent_pub.html></A> <A
HREF=newsletter.html></A> <A HREF=designers_voice.html></A> <A
HREF=press_release.html></A> <A HREF=rules_tech.html></A> <A
HREF=students.html></A> <A HREF=http://www.volvooceanrace.org/></A> <A
HREF=americas_recent_news.html></A> <A HREF=www.oraclebmwracing.com></A> <A
HREF=class_associations.html></A> <A HREF=prod_builders.html></A> <A
HREF=custom_builders.html></A> <A HREF=brokerage_firms.html></A> <A
HREF=publications.html></A> 
 <object classid="clsid27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0"
width="115" height="616">
<param name="movie" value="designs.swf">
<param name="quality" value="high">
<embed src="designs.swf" quality="high"
pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="115" height="616"></embed></object>

Flash Navigation In Dreamweaver 8
I hope someone can help, I initially put this question in DW forum but got no real help, just some geezer putting me off using flash in web sites - shouldn't get that here eh!

I often want to make a Flash file with some animation for using in a DW html site, and often wish to incorporate some buttons into the animation that take the site viewer to a different page of the site. It is relatively straight forward to use a goto-url, but using this method I can't really test the site on my local machine, as the links only ever seem to work if they are abosolute eg http://www.domain.co.uk/page rather than relative to the site itself when the swf is put into DW. At the moment I am building a site to replace a site I built for a client a few years ago, so I don't want to up load the new one until I have made sure it works. Is there any way of making site navigation in flash files tht can be relative to the site as one does in dreamweaver?

The other trick I have always wanted to do is to make nav buttons in Flash that can be installed in DW. I have bought some over the years which always have an mxp extension. These are the ones where you use the insert flash button command where you fill in the link, text etc and DW makes the swf for the site. Is this something that can be done in Flash 8 pro? I did a Total Training DVD tutorial in flash and this wasn't covered.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Ralph

Flash Navigation Needs To Link To An IFrame In Dreamweaver...how?
What script would I need to put on the button in order to load up single .gif's and the odd html file inside an iFrame in Dreamweaver? The iFrame is called "content".

HELP ME!!

Thanks.

Flash Navigation/link Issue In Dreamweaver
Im building a site with flash navigation and the rest in dreamweaver. The problem is im trying to make it so all the pages open up in an iframe (old i know, thats what the guy wants) but for some reason i cant make it happen.
the name if the iframe is simply "iframe"

my code: on(release)
{getURL("event.htm","iframe");

in html you would change the target in the link tag but in flash im not sure because its an iframe not something else (ex. "_parent" or "_blank")

Please help!

Thanks
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How To Arrange Flash Movie BEHIND Navigation Bar - Working W/Dreamweaver
I'm using MX2004. In my Dreamweaver template, I've got a navigation bar that drops down the menu (not a flash navigation bar). But a flash file does sit below the bar. I had made the menu items to drop down over/into the flash file which is in a div coded after the nav bar.

I've tried "bring forward" the nav bar in Dreamweaver, but doesn't seem to be able to go over the flash image.

I've tried putting the flash file into the div as part of the background in the css, but then Nothing shows up.

Of course, I can't make the flash doc transparent (which would actually have been okay since the flash has plenty of white space near its top and isn't critical content).

Maybe this isn't even a good topic for this board, but I've looked elsewhere I can't seem to find an answer. Perhaps because I'm not using the right search terms. But if someone has done this before, I'd appreciate hearing how you got the flash layer to move back.

Thanks,

c

Flash Buttons In Dreamweaver(HELP)
Have made a button in Flash and have inserted it in a table in Dreamweaver, but it does not work. Where do you make the link, in Flash with url actions or Dreamweaver. The following is what I have tried.

1.made button in flash and put action “get url” (page two.htm) name of page I want to link too.

2.inserted in Dreamweaver, then opened in browser preview, when I click the button I just get ask to connect to the web.ie. No linking to page two.htm

3.Cannot make link in Dreamweaver as I cannot see the button, just the Flash icon sitting in the middle of a grey box where the button should be. When pressing the green go button in the prop window that makes your movie play, I just get the message you do not have the plug-in to view. Have Tried to download the Shockwave Plug-in but it does not give me the option of putting it in the Dreamweaver Plug-in Folder.
Please can someone help
Micky

Flash Buttons For Dreamweaver. Help Please.
I want to design some buttons in Flash and take into Dreamweaver. I know how to make the buttons I just need clarication on a few points.

1. When I create the buttons in Flash, Do I need to give it the actions/links and target location in Flash or do it in Dreamweaver?

2. Should I create each button in a seperate movie file or create everything the way I want it as one movie? I am making the buttons look like leaves off a twig. Do I create the twig and all the leaf buttons with all the rollovers and actions exactly the way I want and then take to dreamweaver?

Thanks in advance.

Tazmania

Flash Buttons For Dreamweaver
Well, here I am again, after another agonizing week of learning more of all this MX stuff!

I have 9 years of college and feel like a clumsy 3rd grader. Oh well, anyhow, I need to know these things:

1.How many pixels in say an inch?
2.How do I make buttons in Flash that I can paste into Dreamweaver? or better yet, that I can put into my permanent common library to use at will? Now, to clarify, I am not asking how to design the buttons, that part I can handle. What I mean to ask is this: how do I determine the size, the background color or make it optional once in Dreamweaver and finally, how do I get it to appear like all those wonderous but not too original designs in the common library now?
I do not want to import a Flash movie with a button in it for each button but rather design buttons in flash and then be able to use them in Dreamweaver as buttons, if this makes any sense.
3.Is there somewhere to find a lot of good solid tutorials on MX products just now?
4. Is there some one who can tell me how to make straight lines in flash move in tweens and stay perfectly paralell or is there some where on the net that I can find out about how to make straight lines in Flash that move and stay straight and parallel even in a motion tween? And further, is there a way to draw capsule shapes in flash? I can get the ovals ok...maybe there is somewhere to get more library objects other then polygons?
5. I have made this movie in flash and when I paste it our view it for some reason the parts outside of the stage area show--I have made a prety good fix by putting a top layer and adding opaque rectangels to cover the areas I do not want to show, but this is really not how this is supposed to work, so please advise, if you can. I am going to try to attach this movie to this post.
Well, this is all for now.

Thanks,in advance for any responses.
Patricia

Flash Buttons In Dreamweaver
Hi, I know this is a bit off-topic, sorry.

I'm giving a beginners class in Dreamweaver & Flash, and part of the structure that's been laid out for me is the "insert flash button" feature in Dreamweaver. (Though I feel just making your own buttons in Flash is a better idea...).

Odd thing: the link simply doesn't work in IE, it's fine in Netscape, and even opens the HTML page it's linked to from the flash player, but not in Internet Explorer???

I'm sure it's a simple problem, but it would really help if anyone had encountered it before?

thanks

Flash Buttons In Dreamweaver
I'm not sure if I need action script or not, but here's my problem and I would really appreciate it if someone could help me.

I'm creating my own site which is going to be an online portfolio of my graphic design work. I've created some Flash buttons, and generated them so I could save them into Dreamweaver MX's Flash buttons folder, and insert them on to my Dreamweaver page. In Dreamweaver I've got a 2 frame frameset. In the right hand frame I have my page with the Flash buttons on, and depending on what button you click on I want that page to appear in the left frame, but I can't seem to make this happen. So, is there any action script I can apply to my buttons to make these pages appear in the left frame??HELP ME

Flash MX Buttons For Dreamweaver MX
Right then

i thought i should post this in the newbies section because im sure there is an easy answer

i need help creating my own flash templates in dreamweaver (you know the preset ones where you put you own text in)

if anyone can tell me how it from flash in the dreamweaver (it has to be MX) then please help

thanks

Flash MX Buttons To Dreamweaver MX?
I have been looking for a way to create flash .swt files to use in Dreamweaver MX. Macromedia states you need Flash 5 to create the buttons. Is there a way to create buttons for use in Dreamweaver using Flash MX only?

Flash Buttons In Dreamweaver
hey, ive made some cool animated buttons in flash, is there anyway that i could use them in dreamweaver as links?

Flash Buttons For Dreamweaver
I made a nice flash button to use on a website I working on in Dreamweaver 8, and only then realised that the buttons I have downloaded in the past for use in dreamweaver have an mxp file extension and are then loaded using Dreamweavers extensions manager. Is it possible to create buttons in Flash 8 pro and export then so that they can be used in Dreamweaver 8?

There was nothing about this in the DVD course I did and I can't find anything in the help either.

Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

Ralph.

Many Flash Buttons In Dreamweaver
Heres exactly what i want to do. I want to place about 4-5 flash buttons with tweens and special actionscript so that when u hover with mouse pointer they "exhale" and when mouse leaves they "inhale". Anyway i managed to do this but there are probs when placing the swf files on DW page. There is a twiching in the button movement once u hover over a button and after 1sec (before its all released) u hover over the top green cell of the DW page.
Im new at this and i cannot succed in designing something with no technic probs. Plz help me in making this look more natural and user free!

Im sending u an html page with them inserted so u know what i mean.
Thanx

Dreamweaver Flash Buttons
This question is half flash & half dreamweaver.... Does anyone know how to create flash buttons compatible with the "insert>Flash Button" feature of dreamweaver? My goal is to make a base button and be able to edit the properties, such as font size, color, link, thru dreamweaver. The flash buttons that come with dreamweaver are totally lame and in SWF format, I cannot edit them in any way to figure out what the code for the buttons would be. I've tried google and all I can find is a bunch of tutorials on how to insert the stock buttons in dreamweaver. ARGH!

-T

Dreamweaver - Flash Buttons
I am try to get around the mainFrame actionscript problem between Flash buttons and Dreamweaver by creating a button that I can import into Dreamweaver [I need to know who to do that too] but I don't know what the action script is for the Dinamic text that allows you to type in the Button name in Dreamweaver

Flash Buttons In Dreamweaver
Hello,
I've created a dropdown menu using Flash, and placed it in dreamweaver how can I link the buttons seperately in dreamweaver or do I have to use Flash!

How to do that in Dreamweaver?
How to do that in Flash?

Thanks much,
flutterflie

Dreamweaver Buttons In Flash
Does anyone know how to bring premade buttons from Dreamweaver into Flash? Whenever I import them they dont work right but if I load them externally I cant preload them with the rest of the site under one, main preloader. Please help!

Flash Buttons Into Dreamweaver
Hey im wondering if anyone cane help me, If I design flash buttons to go into dreamweaver do I have to design all the buttons on the one swf. file or can I save each individual button?

Second question is can I then link the flash buttons up through dreamweaver to other HTML pages?

Cheers

Craig

How To Add Flash Buttons Into Dreamweaver
Hi

Dreamweaver 4 comes with built in Flash buttons, that you can add text, links etc to.

Is there an easy way to use buttons I have made in flash in this way with Dreamweaver?

Flash/Dreamweaver Buttons
The original page is all Flash http://duibroward.com/DUI_Law.htm
It's too heavy, taking too long. Is there a way to have the flash buttons overlap a layer and work the way they do in flash along with an html main info area? To break up the buttons on the left side and use them in Dreamweaver, does each button need to be created separately? How do I insert them into frames, slices or layers? Is there an online tutorial on this anywhere?

Adding Flash Buttons To Dreamweaver?
Does anyone know where I can find some info on how to add Flash buttons in to Dreamweaver? I cant seem to get it to work. Any info will be a great help. Thanks

Buttons And Frames In Flash MX And Dreamweaver...Please HELP
Hi,

I am updating my site.

What I want to do is have to frames on my site, one main one, and a top one with a single flash file. This flash file would contain a logo, a background, and a few buttons to direct the main frame to go to various parts of the site [news, msuic, links or whatever]

I have made this file, but I have been getting a variety of problems, mostly either no url opening, or it opening in the top frame.

My frames in dreameaver are called topFrame and mainFrame, but when I'm in flash, these are not options...

This is the actions I had:

music.onPress = function() {
getURL("www.drizzlemusic.com", "_top");
};

'music' is the title of the button
'"_top"'is one frame i tried...I have tried all of them as well as typing in "mainFrame"

Any Ideas of how to work this?

Help would be SO arpreciated....

Flash Buttons Templates For Dreamweaver
In the Flash 5 version we could create, using Generator Objects pannel, button templates for dreamweaver. http://www.macromedia.com/support/dr...hbutton03.html
Now, in the MX version, this option is no more available. Do you know any other method to create those button templates?

Import Flash-buttons To Dreamweaver
I've got a small problem..

I've got a menu-bar made in Flash I would like to import to Dreamweaver.. It goes smooth, just one problem..

In Flash, I used the getURL-commando to open pages in html (I use frames, so the buttons opens an unic page in topframe or mainframe). The URL-adress I use is to a local server wich contains the html-pages, but I would like the adress the button gets to be a folder-adress (ex mypagesite1 op.html). This way I can move the pages to any other server etc without changing the "adress" in Flash..

Any suggestions?

Exporting Flash Buttons To Use In Dreamweaver
I've made some nice flash buttons, but want to use them in a layout that's already created in Dreamweaver. How can I get those buttons out of flash and into my DW nav bar? There's got to be a way! DW even has it's own flash buttons thing, but they're kinda cheesy clip-artish...THANKS for any insight!

Flash Buttons With Java Into Dreamweaver
hi Fellows,.,.,.

i have this mayor problem that whenever i try to import a button (which was made in flash MX) and layer a java script underneath it, dreamweaver is not taking that button and it doesnt even work in any way,.,. please if anyone knows,., help me out on this one,.,

thanxx Toyed

Flash Buttons Link To Dreamweaver?
Can one use a flash button to link to a page in Dreamweaver? If so, can someone tell me the code???

Makeing New Flash Buttons For Dreamweaver
Ok, you all know that insert, media, flash button thing in dreamweaver?

Well, how do I make a new button for the list and then get on the list?

Thanx All

Importing Flash Buttons Into Dreamweaver?
Hello!

I recently made a button in Flash 8 and I wasnt to find out how to import it into Dreamweaver. Is that possible? If so, can somebody tell me how?

Thanks~

-Greiv

Importing Flash Buttons To Dreamweaver
I've just made my own buttons in flash, how do I import them into dreamweaver so they are selectable buttons and they are easy to link?

all help will be appreciated, :phil:

Regards,

-Ajit-

[EDIT]

Also what am I doing wong with this button? you'll see when you preview it, that when you put your mouse pointer in the middle of the button, it opens up, but only half way, the full button does'nt seem to work.....is it becasue of the text?

Here it is

[Flash CS3] Custom Buttons For Dreamweaver
Hi guys,

I have a solid understanding of AS2 and AS3 but have been racking my brains about how to create custom flash buttons for dreamweaver that can be easily integrated into the dreamweaver flash button library. Presumably they are ordinary .swf's with nothing but a button instance on stage and some actionscript coding that recieves a variable posted by the html which contains the link information that the flash buttons should navigate to.
My question is how to do this in a format that dreamweaver will interpret as just another flash button in it's library of pre-existing flash buttons. It is for a massive project where the same button will be used repeatedly in an html file.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Exporting Flash Buttons To Dreamweaver
I was trying to find what the easiest ways to change the text of a button is. i mad a custom button in firworks but it seemed i had to retype the text ever time i wanted to change the button, then i tried making a button in flash and the same thing happens. I know this may not be the best explination but if you can help i would greatly appreciate it.
Description of the button is as follows:
   ______________
  /   |            Part 1 changes from blue to white
  | 1 |   2       | Part 2 chnages from white to blue
     |          /  part 2 text changes from blue to white
  ----------------  want to be able to change text easier in
dreamweaver after i export the button

Flash Buttons In Dreamweaver And Links...
hi all,
i have a few flash buttons that i wanna place in dreamweaver, the buttons link to different pages of my website. so is it ok if i put these buttons into 1 frame in DW, and what are the script for my buttons to link to their respective pages??

thks

Linking Flash Buttons In Dreamweaver
hello all,
sorry to sound really naive but i need some help with flash and dreamweaver mx.I created a simple button symbol in flash mx with the hope of importing it into dreamweaver and then linking it to internal documents stored in my website folder.now the problem i am having is........basically, i have been able to import the button into dreamweaver using the insert>media>flash menu.i inserted the buttons into a layer that i created in order to position it correctly.thats all fine but,..the problem arises when i try to link it to another page within the same folder!!!i cant figure out how to do this..it is probably something very simple and im being stupid.but,i have to start somewhere!now i will be really grateful to all thse who can help and gimme their suggestions.thanx in advance,a desparate novice!

Linking Flash Buttons W/Dreamweaver
Hello all,

I have made a button using Flash MX and would like it to link to other internal web pages within a web site. I'm using Dreamweaver MX to build the website. How do I link these buttons, and do I link them in Flash before exporting or do I link them in Dreamweaver after importing?
Thanks
Kunhahn

Flash Buttons In Dreamweaver Frame Site
Hello, If anyone can help me it would be great. Ok, i have built a side bar (in Flash) which i have placed in the left side frame of a page in Dreamweaver. What i am trying to do is put a 'go to URL' action script in the buttons i have on the side bar so when clicked the visitor will still see the side bar in the left frame in my page but in the main frame (which is right next to the left frame [in Dreamweaver])they will be taken to an anchor spot in the main page frame. Does this make sense? So i need to know what to put into the action script "url box" as far as to get the buttons in the flash movie in the left frame to take the visitor to the anchor spot in the main frame. right now i have the Dreamweaver pages saved as "menu.htm"(which is the left frame) then i have "main.htm" which is the main frame in the page(to the right of the left frame) and then i have the whole frameset saved as "index.htm". and right now in all the buttons i have "http://www.website.com/index.htm#anchorname",_self"
What i have so far does not make my site do anything except go to itself but not the anchor, how do i get it to go to the anchor in the main frame but leave the left menu frame alone?

thanks for any answers, they are greatly appreciated!!!

Relative Links With Flash Buttons In Dreamweaver?
I've created rollover buttons in Flash MX but cannot get the relative links to other html pages in my site to work. I'm using Dreamweaver MX 2004 to assmble the html pages. Everything works except the relative links are not recognized by IE running Windows or Safari in OSX. Any suggestions or help would be appreciated.

Imbedding Flash Buttons With Actions To Dreamweaver
I am making a Dreamweaver web page. I have created my own Flash buttons. However, in Dreamwever I cannot add a behavior for an onclick command on those buttons to bring up another web page to my main frame. I've tried coding it in Flash and in Dreamweaver and have yet to get it to work. Any sugestions?

Having Trouble With Flash Buttons In A Dreamweaver Site
I have a website which uses a flash banner as it's way of navigating the site, however it is never going to be online. It is going to put on a CD and used at home by students.

So at the moment the website, images, flash etc is located in N:/ and all the flash links are for the N:/, if it gets put on a CD it will no longer work.

What I was wondering is does Flash have a way to update it's links depending on where it's been moved? Similar to dreamweaver and .ste.

Thanks a lot.

Controlling Flash Movies Using DreamWeaver MX Buttons
Perhaps I'm being reeeeaaaally stupid (?)

I'd like a Button image in DreamWeaver to control a Flash Movie. See attached .zip file.

I've followed the official DreamWeaver instructions and it just does not work in any of my browsers. Can anyone have a look at it and see what I'm doing wrong ?!

All I'm after is : onMouseOver of light blue box then play frame 2 of .swf movie. I can't do it ! Heeeelp !

Cheers,
Monkee.

Best Way To Incorporate Flash Buttons Into HTML Pages Via. Dreamweaver?
Hello all-

What do you recommend for sites based in HTML but with interactive flash elements (like buttons?). Basically, what I've done so far is created a HTML page in Fireworks, imported it into Dreamweaver. I made animated buttons in Flash, created a layer in Dreamweaver and placed the buttons over the imported HTML. Now, the trick to all this is -- you can't assign links to flash elements in Dreamweaver, so you have to engrain all the links directly into the flash buttons in Flash.

Okay. Is this the way you would go about doing it? I'm just curious if there is an easier way. Layers are a little goofy in Dreamweaver. Also, having to go into flash to change the links is a pain if something changes, but if thats the only way...

Any help appreciated!

Thanks-

AX-1

Getting Flash Buttons Inside Swf File To Access Url In Dreamweaver
All the things I could do in Flash mx and can no longer do in mx04.
I have created simple rollover buttons within a Flash swf file. This file is loaded into a Dreamweaver page. I want to be able to go to another page in the website by pressing the buttons. I have tried to code it but it does not work:
attempt 1:
on (release) {
getURL(principal.htm_self);
}

attempt 2: 'aboutus' is the name of the folder in which the htm tag is located

on (release) {
getURL(aboutus/principal.htm_self);
}

Adobe Bridge Buttons In Dreamweaver, Flash, And Fireworks?
Hello,

Adobe says that the button to connect to Adobe bridge is in every CS3 application. I can find it in Photoshop, Illustrator, and even Contribute, a former Macromedia project, but none of the other Macromedia projects (Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks) have one. Am I missing it, or is this a glitch?

Thanks,
Dylan

Can Flash Mx Buttons Operate Seporate Dreamweaver MX Frames ?
Hey saw your tutorial and need help. Maybe I'm doing this difficultly but I have three frames in Dreamweaver:
_topFrame =Masthead
_mainFrame= Content that changes
_leftFrame=Navigation frame.

In Flash I coded:
on (release) {

//Goto Webpage Behavior
getURL("home.htm","_mainFrame");
//End Behavior

}
Which I want the content or middle frame to change. But Flash MX 7.0 - Educational version Action Script 2.0, has the Behavior tab set to"_blank" instead of "_mainFrame." No matter what I do to overwrite this my content reopens in a blank window. HELP!!!!!