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Flash Focus In HTML Page?
Hi,

I found a post about detecting focus for an HTML page containing a flash movie. I have a problem with buttons in an MP3 player not working correctly when changeing HTML pages. However, when I test this code......

<HTML>
<BODY onFocus="alert('you have focus');" onBlur="alert('blur');">
test focus
</BODY>
</HTML>

If I select the page, it traces I have focus. If I select the player that is embedded in the HTML page, it traces blur. I am not sure this is my issue with the buttons not responding correctly when changing pages as it also seems to be from the initial load. The play button must be selected, then stopped, then selected again. After that, everything works until you change page focus and return to the player.If I load the player by itself, it works fine. Although, I need the HTML page to allow users to load their own MP3's into the player. Here is a demo of the player embedded in an HTML page....

http://www.ntdesigns.net/demo/NTplayer.html

Is focus one of my issues here?

I also seem to have an issue with my random play function. It works when testing in author mode, but doesn't work with either the .swf or the .swf embedded in an HTML page. Here is what I have for the random play function......

Code:
_root.onLoad = function() {
randomPlay();
}
randomPlay = function () {
list = _root.lBox.labels.length;
_root.lBox.setSelectedIndex(random(list));
myRandomSong = _root.lBox.getSelectedItem().label;
myRandomArtist = _root.lBox.getSelectedItem().data;
newSound(targetPath+myRandomSong+".mp3");
_root.status.text = "Playing";
_root.artist.text = myRandomArtist;
_root.song.text = myRandomSong;
}

Anyone have any ideas of what I have done wrong?

Thanks in advance
NTD

Focus On The Flash Movie In An Html Page
How can I make it when the page loads that the focus is automatically on the flash movie? (in Firefox)

Testing Flash Movie Focus Within An Html Page...?
is there an easy way to trigger events when a user clicks and/or rolls outside of a flash move thats embedded in an html page? i tried to use a _root.onSetFocus/_root.onKillFocus command, but that didnt return anything when the user clicks on anything outside of the flash movie. i then tried creating a 2-pixel mc around the border of my movie that triggers whenever the mouse rolls over it, but when i test the mc, the events dont get triggered unless you roll very slowly over the mc (because its so thin). is there a better, more sure fire way to get solid results? i was thinking of calling a _root.onEnterFrame=checkBounds; .... where function checkBounds() gets the x/y position of the mouse and makes sure that its within bounds of the Stage height and width, but id like to know if theres a better and more efficient way to do it that im just not aware of.

cheers
j

Flash Focus In CFM Page
I have built a few flash remoting programs that load in a CFM page.  They work perfectly, aside from one small problem...
Sometimes they seem to have focus already when the page loads, and the hover effects work automatically.  However, sometimes I'm finding I have to click the Flash program first in order for the hover effects to work.

The hover effects are just simple "on (rollover)" functions.  Anyone have any ideas?  I'm sure it can be done, I've seen many flash based nav bars that already have focus when the page loads.

If you need a link to an example page, I can provide one.

Focus Problems On Return Focus To Html Window
Hi all
Im wondering if anybody has come across this problem before while developing with flash and javascript/HTML. Basically I have created a flash interface which accepts user input in the form of keystrokes - left arrow, up arrow etc....
This works fine in the standalone flash player - but when the movie is published into a html page and it loads up the keystrokes don't have any effect unless I a) click first on the flash movie within the html page or b) use JavaScript to catch the onLoad event in the html body tag and manually set focue to the movie using document.keyFocusCheck.focus();.

Ok, I've got this far and its working fine - im loading my html windo and setting focus to my flash movie(nad my keystrokes work straight off)- however here is my problem. If I alt+tab away from my html window and then alt+tab back to my window - my keystrokes don't work again unless I click first in the flash window - I've tried lots of different ways to reset focus to my flash file (eg. Putting an onFocus event handler in my html pages' body tag) but to no avail - I am wondering if it is actually possible to catch the focus event once the html window has lost its focus and then had it returned as everything I have tried doesn't work!

I have included a sample 'dumbed down' version for you guys to check out - if anybosy could point me in the right dirrection of offer any help that would be massively appreciated.

Thanks in advance
DotsC

How Do I Focus A Newly Opened Page Opened Through Main Flash Page.
This is the script in my flash file. I would like for it to open the new html window with the size as stated but also bring it to focus in front of all other windows and I cannot seem to find the correct script or know where to put it correctly in this existing script.

on (release) {

sUrl = "Content/Makers/Dadslide1/VDM.html";
wdth = "500";
hdth = "462";
lft = 500;
tp = 10;
getURL("javascript:window.open('"+sUrl+"','yourpag e','width="+wdth+",height="+hdth+",top="+tp+",left ="+lft+
",directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,resizable= no,status=no,toolbar=yes,scrollbars=no'); void(0);")

gotoAndPlay(1);
}

How do i make it to where this window and others will focus to the front when a new button is pressed inside the main flash swf. I am looking all over the place and keep seeing focus script and none of it seems to be working.

Please help and thank you in advanced to those who do.

Flash Menu Lose Focus When I Scroll Page
I am using a flash object for my navigation menu. Everything works great, but in Firefox when I scroll down the page I have to click the swf again in order for the effects to work. Any ideas?

Here is a link :

www.alucidtech.com

Sending Focus Always To Flash Movie In Html
I need a way to send the focus of the page to the flash movie everytime the page is focused (outside flash movie).
I'm trying javascript: onBlur="index.focus();" and onFocus="index.focus();" in <BODY> tag.
index is the ID of the flash movie...

Flash Focus Problem On Re-entry To Html Window
Howdy

Im wondering if anybody out there could offer me some help with a window focus problem I am having. Basically I have written a small game in flash MX which takes key strokes as input i.e. left arrow key - moves an entity left on-screen, right arrow key - moves an entity right etc.....

This all works fine in the standalone flash player, but when I render it in side a html movie the keyboard events have no impact on the flash file until I first click on the flash movie inside the html window. I am opening the html document inside a new html window using window.open pretty standard stuff.

I have fixed the problem by putting an onLoad event inside the body tag of the html file which houses the flash movie and setting the code to document.platfrmGame.focus(); platfrmGame being the name of the flash movie.

However here is my problem when i alt-tab away from the opened html window and the alt-tab back focus is again lost form the movie and again the keystrokes are rendered useless unless I click back inside the flash movie with the mouse. Does anybody know of a way to catch the html window focus event (upon returning to the movie bearing window) and reset focu to the flah file? I have tried the onFocus event handler nside the body tag as with the onLoad event handler but to no avail - does anybody know the answer?

Thanks in advance
DotsC

Transparent Flash Overlay Is Blockin Html Focus
Hi there,
I am new here. Everything i have learned about html and flash has been from

googling and reading others questions and answers. I have a question that i really

need help with- i cant find a solution anywhere... please help me... this is the

first time i have asked a question in any forum.
I have a finished website that is dynamic using ASP and access databases. At the

last minute i decided to use a [flash - SWF] file that completely covers the entire

page [swf file doesnt scroll with page- but stays in postion]. i have other divs

underneath that have their own scroll bars and have the dynamic links]. The SWF file

that i am using as an overlay consists of just a border or rocks around the page,

having the entire center of the SWF completely transparent. I am wanting to do this

for style reasons- not [advertisement reasons.]
The SWF file displays perfect and resizes perfect, and even the flash drop shadows

fall onto the underlying [html divs]. looks awesome.
The problems are these...
1- IE looks great, links and buttons are clickable- but the text input boxes require

the mouse cursor to be at the very top of the text input box to receive [focus]. I

would almost let this slide as ok...
2- firefox and opera also display perfectly of the HTML, but the html will not

receive focus at all [no links, text input boxes or anything].

My website of 2 years of construction is done, but i really want to have the flash

overlay. It just looks way better, and really makes the site look exactly like my

computer software program of the same nature [built in flash and compiled to EXE

with swfkit].

please note:
1. my website is on localhost only right now so search engines don't start indexing

pages till i get it figured out.
2. i have tried a floating div with swf inside- and also tried the IFRAME method.
3. wmode = transparent
4. ummm... I would almost split the SWF into 4 parts and place them as top, bottom,

etc... but that would get very complicating with auto resizing with browser.

Thankyou for your time in advance-
i hope for luck with my first answer request
thankyou
robert

Naming Of HTML Entry Page & Flash Intro Page?
Hey Everyone. What is the best way to name the entry non-Flash (HTML) page - the splash or index page, whatever it's called - that is the gateway to the final Flash site, which will open in a new window? When users type in the basic web URL - for example, http://www.mysite.com - I want them to come upon an entry page that states "Click here for Flash Player 6" and "Enter if you have Flash Player 6". When the user types in the basic URL should I have the entry page called http://www.mysite.com/index.htm?

One step further... How do I configure things so that when the user comes to the entry page, Flash 6 is automatically detected on both Mac & PC platforms? Detailed answers will be much appreciated, as well as links to tutorials.

peace out,
*< Scottie

Naming Of HTML Entry Page & Flash Main Page?
Hey Everyone. What is the best way to name the entry non-Flash (HTML) page - the splash or index page, whatever it's called - that is the gateway to the final Flash site, which will open in a new window? When users type in the basic web URL - for example, http://www.mysite.com - I want them to come upon an entry page that states "Click here for Flash Player 6" and "Enter if you have Flash Player 6". When the user types in the basic URL should I have the entry page called http://www.mysite.com/index.htm?

One step further... How do I configure things so that when the user comes to the entry page, Flash 6 is automatically detected. Detailed answers will be much appreciated, as well as links to tutorials.

peace out,
*< Scottie

Anyway To Have A Small Html Page Embedded Into A Larger Flash Page?
I've developed a website completely in Flash. Now, I have a space in this Flash page where I would like to have, upon a certain button click, load up an HTML page...within the Flash page itself. So, I have the layout, and all the links and all that in the Flash website. In the content area of that Flash site, I want an html page to appear after clicking a certain button, thus turning the Flash into somewhat of a border. Is there any simple way to do this?

Thanks a lot!

Embedd A Dynamic HTML Page In A Flash Page
Hello,
Lets say If i have a list of sorted html pages on my server, can I pull on of them and display it in my FLash movie dynamically according to the user prefrence. Say, the user want to only see files with the first letter 's', then can I pull up these files and display them dynamically in the Flash movie? if so, how do i go abt doign this???any help is appreciated!!!!thanks...

Ugly Transition From Flash Page To Html Page
Hi-

I made a flash movie with soundtrack as an intro for my client. At the end of the movie I put a frame action to get URL and automatically jump to the main page of the site. The background color for the site is black, but in between the intro flash page and the main nav page, white flashes for a split second. You can see the work in progress at www.musicbymelinda.com/melindasite/.

She loves the movie, hates the jarring white flash. I tried lengthening the movie, it didn't help ... she does not want to make her viewers click on a button to enter site.

Any suggestions how to make a smooth transition? thanks. -knox

Flash Splash Page Redirect To Html Page
I am very new to flash and please forgive my lack of knowledge.

So here is my question... How do I get this splash page to redirect to this HTML page as soon as the flash movie stops?

Also any preloader guidance or reading material would be greatly appreciated. I have no idea where to begin with the preloader.

Thanks in advance -

Import The HTML Page Or Web Page Into Flash MovieClip
Hi,

Is there any possible to load or import the HTML page or web page (i.e, http://mail.yahoo.com) into Flash MovieClip?. If any knows the answer plz reply me immediately.

Balaji..

Getting Flash To Load HTML Pages Into Iframes In A Seperate HTML Page
Hi everybody

Does anybody know how to get Flash to load HTML pages into a seperate HTML page?

I'm currently running an animation within a webpage, and my client would like to be able to have some captions in HTML on the page that go with specific parts of the animation.

He wants the captions done in seperate HTML pages so that they can be changed into different languages at a later date.

I am loading these captions (HTML pages) into <iframes> on the page.

So far so good..... however...

I need to be able to get flash to load the HTML pages into the <iframes>, in certain points within the animation.

So... Does anybody know how to get Flash to load HTML pages into a seperate HTML page?

I'm guessing getURL is used somewhere, but I don't know the exact code.

Hope you can help!

Deadhands

Passing HTML Form And Hidden Variables From Flash To Html Page
Hi,

I have a html/flash site now, http://www.zachariack.com.

i access email from my site itself by giving the userid and pwd text box which i copied from the actual website hosting my email access. i copied the entire
<form...></form> tag to my page and thus was able to put the name and pwd in my home page only and access the email in a separate window.

now i have redesigned my webpage using only flash. i would like to know how i can implement the same using flash. as i have not much experience using action scripting i am a bit stuck about how you pass the hidden form variables. the below is the the exact form syntax:

<form name="form1" action="http://www.accudatanet.com/mail/msglist.php" method=post>
<input type="hidden" name=sid value="E9697301F704A0CE947DEF42CF86636A">
<input type=text size=15 name=f_user value="">
<input type=hidden name=six value=0>
<input type=password size=15 name="f_pass">
<input type=submit name=submit value="Login >>" class="button">
</form>

how do i implement the above using action scripting. thanks.

regards,
vasant

Put SWF Into HTML Page But How To Also Add Flash Mp3 Player Into Same Page?
For my web-site, each seperate HTML page in dreamweaver mx2004 has a different flash SWF attached to it, but all these flash SWF scenes all have the same background in them for consistency.

The problem is my showreel page, I created a flash SWF ready for dreamweaver, but I also want to incorporate a flash mp3 player I have into the same HTML page!

Can anyone please tell me how to do this?

Thanks Jim

Turn Flash Page Into An Html Page?
Hi all,

So here's my dilemma. Got this job to put together a site for a financial company with a friend of mine. We're both more into illustration more than anything else and have basic/ intermediate knowledge of flash but know very little about html..

Here is the dummy - http://uzugexe.com/tiel.html

This company really wants some flash design and were very specific with what kind of animations they want on the page. Thing is though, they're now saying that ranking in a search engine is essential. So we've tried to persuade them to ditch the flash idea completely and have an html only site...but because they really loved what we'd come up with (i personally think it's too much!) they asked if we could try and combine the two....

Any ideas on how we could use the animation as it is as a kind of intro but then have it turn into an html page automatically - without seeing too much difference when it changes? Is it possible to have the html 'under' the flash movie, then have the flash movie fade away and 'unload' to reveal the html page?

Hope this makes some kind of sense!

Any suggestions much appreciated

Pat

How To Load Either Flash Page Or Html Page?
Hi,
I am new to Flash. I have a webpage made in Flash, a page made in regular html. I want the user to be automatically directed to the html version if they don't have Flash 8 installed.
I checked out SWFObject but im really confused of what to do. This has been done so many times, there must be an "easy" way to do it. It is javascript code, right? Where do i add the extra code?
Any help would be great!
Thanks,
Dave

HTML Code In Flash To Load An HTML Page In A Frame
Hello.

I have an existing website built in html, with three frames. One on the top for the banner, one on the left for navigation, and a larger window to the right of the navigation for the main content. I want to replace the content in my navgation frame with a flash built navgation menu, and when my menu items are selected, it will load a new page in the content frame.

I currently have this working fine in html. I can make my buttons link to a URL no problem in flash, but how do I tell it to load the content into the other frame? I haven't started this process yet, and figured I'd ask first to get any ideas.

Thanks.

Focus A Page
I'll explain whats happening and then tell how I have done it and then ask my question.

When you go to my site you first get a spalsh page. You press enter and then it opens a new pop up with the flash site in it. The original spalsh page then changes to a "good bye" page. So that when the user closes the flash window, the page behind says "Thanks for using the site."

I have a getURL command in the flash which tells the splash page to change to the "good bye" page.

The problem is that I want the "good bye" page to stay behind the flash pop up window and at the moment using a standard get URL command the page loads in front of the falsh, but in the correct window.

How do I stop it from doing this?

Page Focus
i have a flash movie that goes to different frames depending on a certain variable. its a floor plan of a building and i need to highlight a certain area to show people where to go. one of the areas is off the screen initially when the webpage is opened. i would like to automatically go to the bottom of the page if the variable is a certain value. anyone know how? please help.

matt

A Load Html Page Button On A Two Frame Html Page
can someone help me? I want to load an html page on a different frame of the same html page from a swf that are in the principal frame. I know i have to use javascript and, i suppose, fscommand. Can someone help me? I'm a novice on javascript

Setting Focus On SWF File When HTM Page Loads
i have a page that has a form in the front page.. contained in a .SWF file...

the problem is.. you cant really tell you can fill in the form with the little blinkie cursor blinking...

when you enter the page... the blinking isn't automatic, because the flash file doesnt have the FOCUS...

what can be done to make the .SWF start with the focus so that the CURSOR will blink upon entering...

http://www.mannymedia.com/hunc4 is the temp site...

THANK YOU A MILLION IN ADVANCE!!!
-manny

Focus On Input Textbox On Page Load
How would I set the focus to an input textbox when the website page loads.

Code or reference would be appreciated.

Thanks anyone

Auto-input Focus On Swf As Page Loads ... ?
I have an swf file in an html page.

The SWF requires user input via keyboard, but as the page is loaded you've got to click in the SWF first, before typing anything.

I've found a JS snippet that is executed when the body of the page is loaded, which works well with IE ... but doesn't with Mozilla, Opera etc...

basically it does something like :

window.focustest.focus();

where "focustest" is the ID of the SWF in the <OBJECT> tag of the page.

Does anybody know, how to trigger the focus on Mozilla / Opera ...

thanks in advance ...

Getting Focus On HTML
We have a Flash movie with a listener that listens for the user to press the spacebar. The problem is that Flash needs to have focus for this to work. How do we give the Flash movie on an HTML page focus when the page loads?

Thanks.

_t

Will Swf Loaded Into One Html Page Be Cached For Another Html Page
Trying to decide how best to structure a flash website and would like to know if loaded swf elements are cached.

Basically I was going to structure the site into 5 separate sections each a separate flash file on a separate html page.

i.e

Homepage.html (this holds homepage.swf)
Services.html (this holds services.swf)
Portfolio.html (this holds portfolio.swf)
ComingSoon.html (this holds comingsoon.swf)
Contact.html (this holds contact.swf)

Each of these main flash files will share certain elements such as the navigation buttons, the main interface etc.

My question is, once a shared swf element has been loaded into homepage.html, is this shared element then in the browsers cache and does not require to be downloaded again when the user navigates to say services.html?

The main reason I am structuring it this way is to allow bookmarking of each of the main sections and also to keep the initial download file size down rather than have to download all 5 sections as one movie.

Thanks

Paul

How Can I Set The Focus In A Html Doc On A Swf File?
it's for a game ... the user has to click the swf file to be able to control the game via keyboard ....
I once read about java script being able to set the focus ............how??

Browser Focus Vs Flash Focus
If your swf extends the height of the browser, the standard browser scrollbar appears.

If you just opened your site, and have NOT clicked inside the browser, on your swf area, the browser will scroll vertically with the up/down keys.

If you click your swf in the browser, the up/down keys no longer register with the Browser, and you cannot scroll vertically.

Is anyone aware of a way to remedy this problem? My first thoughts are maybe sending external interface commands to a javascript function to simulate the up/down scroll, but I'm not positive if javascript can control a browsers scrollbar, and whether there are problems cross-browsers with that.

Unable To Set Focus To Login Text Field AUTOMATICALLY On Page Load
Hi,
I'm trying to have my flash (AS 2) login page have the username field start blinking right away after the page is loaded but so far, no success.

I've added the following Javascript to the HTML wrapper:

But it still doesnt work. Can anyone help?

See whats happening by clicking here.

Attach Code

<script language="javascript">

</script>

<body bgcolor="#ffffff" onLoad="window.document.flashFocus();">

DOM/HTML "focus" And Flash
Does anyone know if Flash can be made aware of the "focus" method in the HTML DOM?

IOW, if the window is "focused" the SWF (does something) or(does something else) when "unfocused."

Just curious...

Any and all Flash versions being used. Yay!

Regards,

--- ArtOtaku ---

How To Set Focus On A New-opend Html File
Hello!
I have a FlashProjector(.exe) with a a button that opens up a html-page.
The problem is that the html-page pops up behind the flashProjector.

in the html-page I have tried this:

function focusMe() {
window.self.focus();
}

but the FlashProjector is still on the topp!! 8-(

What can I do?
Please give me some advise...

/Jonasb

Text Selection And HTML Focus
Hi,
I have a problem that looks like an IE bug. If you have a flash movie which has a textfield in it which is embeded inside an html page. In the HTML you have a hyperlink outside of flash. If you type some text into the textfield. Then click inside the textfield and drag to select the text with your mouse and release the mouse outside the textfield. You then can't click the hyperlink outside of flash untill you click again.
Anyone know a workaround for this or expeirenced the problem?

This is with MX 2004.

Thanks,
Matt

New HTML Page From Within Flash
Hi there,

Can anyone help me with this problem:
I would like to load a new HTML page ,from within an SWF file, in the same window where the SWF file is being played.

I think that my question is more difficult than my problem

Piet
www.orbz.be

Flash Nav In HTML Page
hey gang...

this should be an easy one:

does anyone have an example of a flash navigation that works with an HTML site, that defaults to the current page the user is on.

basically a 1 level breadcrumb trail that always shows the user what page they are on -- if they roll over the other nav elements, the nav would allow them to, but then return to the current state.

so far, ive gotten the nav to read in the variable from the URL (query string), but i cant seem to get it to reset once the user have moused over a few times...

i was trying clip event...no dice.... any suggestions?

/ m

HTML Page To Come Up In FLASH
This site I have built is in Dreamweaver, but with some Flash
content. The client wants the homepage.htm file to come up in the Flash Player by default instead of in the browser (as in IE), because the browser takes up space with buttons, search areas, etc. Is that possible? Does anyone know how to do it?

HTML Page Into Flash
Hi all

is it possible to load a html page into flash like you can do with html files in html into frames?
i want to directly output a php file for example thats in the middle of a flashanimation.

thx

Html Page In Flash-swf ?
Hey there! I dont know how my flash site can show an html site.
I want to put a news script on a flash site, but i dont want that the html is only called in a new window. its importent that it is in the flashplayer window
Its for www.zensiert.info

Thanks for the help

Html Page In Flash?
hi is it possible to open a html website into a flash document? like when you load an external swf into flash?

Thanks

Flash In Html Page
Quick question..
developing a html page

got it.... : ) all is well!

thanks for looking,

K

Html Page In Flash?
Is there any form to show a html web page in a flash movie?, if anyone know's how to fo this, help me thanks.

Flash Nav On HTML Page
I've created a menu in Flash containing 5 buttons that is being placed on a page containing html content. The off state of each button is red, and the over state is yellow. I'd like the over state, yellow, to stay on when the user is on a particular page. I know I could do this by creating separate menus for each page, but would rather use actionscript instead. Anybody have any ideas of how to make this happen?

thanks

HTML Page In Flash UI
Greetings,

I have a long scrolly HTML page that contains text that wraps around photos that are in tables/cells. I also have a Flash file that has an interface and an empty are where I would like to see the forementioned page to appear and be able to scroll down the page. Is this doable or is there a better way?

What I want to avoid is having to rebuild the long scrolly page in Flash, don't really have the budget for it. My failsafe is to put a button in the Flash file and make it open the HTML page by itself insted of appear within the SWF.