History Icons

[F8] Replacing Scrolling Icons To Rotating World Icons
Hi,

I'm working on this web site that needs to be changed. What I want to do is replace the scroll menu with a rotting world menu. Kinda like Itunes has in the album view.

I have a function called mover that makes the scroll menu move. So what I was thinking was that all I have to do is adjust that function.

This is roating world that I want to add:


Code:
function mover(count){
if(inited){
world.rotateY(360- ((360/15) * id), 8);
}
}


and this is the old scrollling menu


Code:
function mover()
{
if(_ymouse > 250 && _ymouse < 365)
{
var xdist = _xmouse - Stage.width/2;
this._x -= xdist / 25;
}
else
{
if(_xmouse > centerX)
{
this._x -= speed;
}
else
{
this._x += speed;
}
}

if (this._x>= -600)
{
this._x = -1500;
}

if (this._x<= -1501)
{
this._x = -601;
}
}


My question is why can't I just call the new function mover so that it grabs that information now?

Thanks in advance,
Bmcc

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History.go(-1)
Hi...

I have a main movie that contains the menu. Menu has 11 buttons and each button loads an external swf file in order to minimize loading time. I want to make 2 button which will work like "back" and "forward" buttons of internet explorer but there is a problem: Each swf file has at least 3 scenes.

How can i make these two buttons???

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IE History Bug
In short:
I have an .aspx page that contains a flash object, using swfobject, that communicates with the page via javascript. When clicking the back button in IE it takes me two pages back, and not to the previous page.
Details:
We use eclipse with FDT plugin to develop our flash apps in AS2. I’m sitting with a problem when I’m communicating a lot with IE using javascript. In normal scenarios the old getURL is sufficient, but we’ve discovered that when you have a lot of calls IE doesn’t handle it to well. So we use a queue solution with the setinterval to give it a short breather, and it works like a charm.

The scenario on the page is a search button….the search brings back the results in href style and the user can then browse to the relevant answer. If he doesn’t like it he will push the Back Button on the IE browser. Now it jumps back two pages, so you have to type in the search criteria again. If you push it again, it goes to the page it should have gone to!

It seems that the history stack goes funny in IE as soon as we have a flash component that does a lot of talking. If we remove the flash object it works fine. There is no bug in the code as we use this getURL() everyday…it’s just when we have a lot of JS communication.

Have any of you come across something like this?
If so…solution?

Or any ideas?

Thanks!

PS: Firefox works 100%

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History.go(-1)
can't seem to get this to work..
on the last frame:
getURL("history.go(-1)")

thanks

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History Back But
Hi can any body help

I want to make a button that returns to the previous scene loaded. Just like the back button on a browser.

I know with html you use the javascript history back function but not to sure with flash.

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History Button
Y'all,
anyone knows what is script for history button? also I try to figure out how to jump to the next frame label instead of next frame. ie.
OnMouse (Release){
NextFrame();
}

thanks

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History Timeline
I am trying to create a history timeline in Flash and at present are having no joy.

Can anyone suggest a good tutorial or way to produce the timeline

What i would like to achieve is a slider which when pointing at a date shows the information for that date below the timeine.

Any help would be great

Cheers

James

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Actionscript History
Can someone tell me, did AS exsist in flash 3?? I suppose it didnt, but i am not sure. And in flash 4 i know it did, but was it called actionscript? or was that name given in fifth version?

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History Button
Is there any body knows how to make a history button

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History Back
I have made 5 swf files (1.swf, 2.swf, 3.swf, 4.swf, 5.swf)
In each of 1.swf, 2.swf, 3.swf and 4.swf I have a button that loads 5.swf
My problem is that I want to make a button (with actionscript) in 5.swf which I go back to the one of the 4 swf files
I look for an actionscript like history back in HTML

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Movie History Help?
hello everyone
i wouldt like to make some history buttons for my flash movie i made so its easier for the user to to go back and forward between the pages like in a html site so can anyone help me a little whirt the sript and variables i need to use... .

thnx anyway

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Sorry To Ask About History Buttons Again...
I've done a search for "history button" and read all the 11 pages of the results but still not any smarter. Most of them tackled the "previous scene", "previous frame", "previous label", "previous html" and I can't use those.

My entire site runs on only ONE html page. And my embeded main movie has only ONE frame, and needless to say, only ONE scene. All my flash pages are called up via button clicks onRelease--> loadmovie method. How on earth do I create a history for such a site? And with restrictions as such:

1) no popup window.
2) have to use browser's back button

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History Timeline
can anyone give me a fla for a scrolling time like the one on mowtown website.
I already have the one by tjko http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Inte...-1677/index.php
I need it to be a bit more involved exactly like motowns

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Flash History
I am doing a project about flash. If anyone knows where to find information on flash: origins and applications, please let me know.

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Refresh History
Hey,

Does anybody remember the code to have the page reload new each time someone visits, as opposed to loading from the internet history/ saved files.

I've just revamped a website, and people are still seeing the oldversion.

thanks,

TheNewFlash guy a.k.a. "ForFlashpurposes"

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History Line
Hi,

I'm working on a project which requires the display of the historical achievements of the company from 1987 till 2004.

I wanted to make an interactive timeline, the only problem I have is that for certain years, the achievements are so numerous that the textual content would not fit on the screen without the help of a scroll bar.

I'm a bit lost with regard to the best way to display both the timeline as well as the textual content that goes with year year on the timeline.

If someone has some examples or links to interactive historical timeline that would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,
Smalco

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Browser History W/ Var In Url
More often I am seeing this new and greatly improved method of tracking browser history. From what I could tell, methods used are 2 frames, javascript engine and vars in browser url.

Here are 2 example sites that use this type of method:
http://www.fantasy-interactive.com/#start
http://advanceflash.com/index.php#sec_5

It's awesome because you could bookmark a specific page.

Does anybody know where to find available open source for this type of history tracking?

Thanks in advance.

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The History Of Flash
The History of Flash

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Just for those who don't know

The story of Flash as told by its inventor Jonathan Gay. Unedited. (courtesy of Macromedia.com)

A History of Flash

Macromedia Flash began with a few bits of colored plastic.

As a child, I grew up playing with LEGOs when there were no LEGO men or whales or complicated accessory packs-just rectangular blocks and a few wheels. Those bits of colored plastic taught me the basics of engineering design, how to choose a design problem, and the process of iterative refinement. Even better, they helped me express my early passion for building things.

LEGO-based Design Process
My favorite project was building LEGO ships with lots of ramps that could hold my toy cars. This taught me that it's best to choose a problem that inspires you and challenges you-and one that you can accomplish with your limited capabilities and resources.

The human mind is much too limited to capture the entirety of a complex creation all at once. With LEGO, you can start with the vision and work out the details of the design as you progress. With patience and persistence, I developed the following LEGO-based design process. It's more or less the same process we ultimately used to develop Flash.

1. Choose a problem: Build a LEGO ship.
2. Develop a vision: What sort of ship will it be? How big will it be? What will it carry?
3. Build: Build the framework of the ship.
4. Fill in the details: Design and build the details of the ship, ramps, doors, etc.
5. Test: Drive the cars around the ship and sail the ship while exploring the house.
6. Refine: Take parts of the ship apart and make them better.
7. Learn: Take what you learned from building this ship and use it to build a better one next time.

From Building to Programming
As I grew older, I developed an interest in architecture. As a young teenager, however, I quickly realized there wasn't much opportunity to build the houses I designed.

About that time, I got an Apple II computer. As I began to program, I quickly discovered that with computer software you can design something, build it, and see it work and respond to you. Although bits of Apple II Basic were not as impressive as building houses, I could take a project to completion and see if it worked. (My first game: a Space Invaders clone in Apple II Basic.)

Soon, I switched from Basic to Pascal and wrote my first graphics editor. (If you think Flash is difficult to use, you should try drawing with a joystick on an Apple II before the concept of undo was invented.) I entered it in my high school science fair.

Breaking into Professional Programming (in High School)
I did pretty well at the science fair. Shortly afterwards the Macintosh came out, I got one, and my dad took me to an early Macintosh Users Group-where he bragged about my programming skills to the group organizer, Charlie Jackson.

Jackson wanted to start a Macintosh software company, owned the necessary $10,000 Lisa computer, and didn't have much money to spend paying programmers. I wanted access to a Lisa computer and, as a high school student, didn't need a paycheck until after the software started selling. It was a perfect fit, and part of the beginning of Silicon Beach Software. (I still think Jackson was a bit crazy to believe a high school student could write Macintosh software.)

I began writing games. First came Airborne!, then Dark Castle and Beyond Dark Castle. The second game was such a hit it paid my way through college. Writing games was an important part of my computer education (and the beginning of my inspiration for Flash) because I learned about animation, digitized sound, and how to synchronize the two. Most importantly, I learned that fast and responsive software is fun to use.

Intellidraw
After the games, I returned to building graphics editors. I added PostScript style drawing to a Macintosh product called SuperPaint II while still in college. After graduation, I designed a next generation drawing program, called Intellidraw for Aldus. When I realized Intellidraw was destined to be a modest success, I figured it was time to start my own company.

Pen Computing, FutureWave Software and SmartSketch
At the time, the hot new concept in the personal computing world was pen computing (you could write on the screen with an electronic pen rather than using a keyboard). A company called Go was building an operating system. So in January of 1993, I convinced Charlie Jackson to invest some money and we started FutureWave Software to dominate the market for graphics software on pen computers.

After working on Intellidraw, I knew it was hard for users to learn complex features and that drawing on a computer was in many ways slower and more awkward than drawing with pencil and paper. I imagined drawing with a pen on a computer screen would be a fantastic improvement. So we set out to build SmartSketch, software that would make drawing on the computer easier than drawing on paper. Robert Tatsumi and I wrote code at our homes and Michelle Welsh handled marketing after her day job.

In the meantime, AT&T bought Go. In January 1994, just as we were about to ship our product, AT&T pulled the plug on Go and left us without a market. We did actually make a few sales of SmartSketch, though. The most noteworthy sale was to an architect working on Bill Gates' house.

The failure of Go and pen computing was a big setback for us. The only opportunity we saw was to take our software and make it run on Windows and the Macintosh. We did it, but now we were competing against Illustrator and FreeHand. It was a struggle.

How FutureSplash Animator was Born
In the summer of 1995, we were at SIGGRAPH and got lots of feedback from people that we should turn SmartSketch into an animation product. We were starting to hear about the Internet and the Web, and it seemed possible that the Internet would become popular enough that people would want to send graphics and animation over it. So we began to add animation to SmartSketch.

At the time, the only way to extend a Web browser to play back animation was through Java. So we wrote a simple animation player that used Java and was horribly slow. We stubbornly kept at it though, and in the fall, Netscape came out with their plug-in API. Finally, we had a way to extend the Web browser with decent performance (this was the ancestor of Macromedia Flash Player).

As it grew close to shipping time, we changed the name of our software to FutureSplash Animator to focus more on its animation capabilities. We also were growing tired of running a company that didn't have much money to spend, and began trying to sell our technology. After an unsuccessful pitch to Adobe and turning down a bid from Fractal Design, we shipped FutureSplash Animator in the summer (May) of 1996.

Microsoft, Disney and Macromedia Flash 1.0
Our big success came in August of 1996. Microsoft was working on MSN and wanted to create the most TV-like experience on the Internet. They became big fans of FutureSplash and adopted the technology. I'm still amazed that they made their launch of MSN dependent on a new animation technology from a six-person company!

Our other high-profile client was Disney Online. They were using FutureSplash to build animation and the user interface for the Disney Daily Blast. Disney was also working with Macromedia Shockwave.

In November of 1996, Macromedia had heard enough about us through their relationship with Disney and approached us about working together. We had been running FutureWave for four years with a total investment of $500,000. The idea of having a larger company's resources to help us get FutureSplash established seemed like a good one. So in December 1996, we sold FutureWave Software to Macromedia, and FutureSplash Animator became Macromedia Flash 1.0.

Macromedia Flash Today
In 2001, Flash has been through five versions at Macromedia-and it still has much of the code that was written for pen computers. There are now 50 people building Flash instead of 3 when we started FutureWave. It's evolved from a simple Web drawing and animation package to a complete multimedia development environment with 500,000 developers and over 325 million Web users of the Flash Player. Flash has become synonymous with animation on the Internet. It's even possible that Flash Player is now the most widely distributed piece of software on the Internet-ahead of Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, and Real Player.

And one final note about LEGO-I'm delighted to say they now use Flash to help sell their creativity-inspiring bits of colored plastic.

(extracted from macromedia.com)

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History - Using Array? Please Help
Hi,

I'm trying to create history links for my site.

e.g. Main page // Link 1 // Link 2

Each time you go to a new page, it should add the new link. When you click to go back on one of the previous, it removes the links in front of it.

So far I've done this:

Defined the array:
var history_array:Array = new Array()

Each time you open a new page this occurs:
history_array.push(pagename);

and then this is displayed in a text box:
history.htmlText=history_array;

Not too sure how to remove the links when you click back though... or whether this is the best way to do this.

Any advice would be great.

Thanks,
Rik

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History - Using Array?
Hi,

I'm trying to create history links for my site.

e.g. Main page // Link 1 // Link 2

Each time you go to a new page, it should add the new link. When you click to go back on one of the previous, it removes the links in front of it.

So far I've done this:

Defined the array:
var history_array:Array = new Array()

Each time you open a new page this occurs:
history_array.push(" // "+"<a href='asfunction:historyFunction'>"+pagename+"</a>");

and then this is displayed in a text box:
history.htmlText=history_array;

Not too sure how to remove the links when you click back though... or whether this is the best way to do this.

Any advice would be great.

Thanks,
Rik

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History Button
I need to make a history button that will back someone out thru the various frames and scenes they have visited in my demo. I figure I can do it with an array, but it ain't working. Can someone point me to a movie or tutorial that will show me how to do it? I'm making a stand alone application for a PocketPC, so it can't be a solution that uses a browser's back button, it needs to be all Flash.

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History Function
Hi, I´m looking for how to do a history function, or something similar, to use like the back button from the browser, but it is for a cdrom, so i can NOT use the browser. So i have to create my own back button.

Does anyone know how to do the same but using actionscript?

thank you

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History Back
I am working on some kinda quiz! There are a couple of questions. And if the user has a answer right he get points. But the poinst are on a other frame. And I want to jump from each question to that frame and back to the question where they came from.

Any ideas?

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Visitor History
Hello,
I currently have a flash site where the navigation is such so it takes users to different web pages. For instance the home page is titled mywebpage/home.htm, page 2 is titled page2.htm. I have it set up like this so (by using Google) I can easily track where my users come from and what pages they visit. Is there a way I can keep my entire site on one page and track what .swf files are loaded in a main .swf file? Thank you.

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Javascript:history.go(-1)
This is driving me absolutely insane. I am using this code within flash to go to previous page from browsers history. It works fine on my mac, but testing in Windows IE7 it only works once.

http://www.bloxdesigns.com/jewelry/necklaces/page1/metal/page1/item2/index.html (then I click on picture link on bottom and on next page hit "back" it works and then I hit "back" again and it just seems to try to reload the current page even though my browser's back button works.)

Just for fun I took the code out of flash and placed directly on the page ... then it worked. I still might have to do this (which will mean I will have to redesign the site.) I have also tried history.back(), placing the AS directly on the button, putting it on both the onRelease and onPress handlers and calling it as a function that I place in my HTML. I have been stuck for days ... any help is so appreciated!!!!!! My FLA is at http://www.bloxdesigns.com/flash/item01.fla

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Mouse History
Is there a way to look back and see the past mouse positions?

For now, I'm using several frames that each logs the cursor position, but I want to do the whole shiznit in ONE frame...

can it be done?

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Font History
Hi guys,
There is someone knows how to embed a font in flash, I was looking for the answer long time ago but nothing I found, ...............I wanna use I new font not like the usual ones(arial,..........), but it dosen t work on an other computer if I plubish my .fla to html. Pls help me.
tks guys.

___________
abdel........

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History Timeline.
Hi.

Not too long ago, I ran across a tutorial for making a flash historical timeline very similar to this: Rock and Roll Timeline.

Does anyone know where to find the tutorial for this interface or another timeline with the same type of features? thanks!

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History Button
can anyone help me, im tryin to make a history/back button in Flash MX.

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History Menu
In the stills section of this site:
http://www.thehorusproject.com/index2.html
it is a cool navigation menu.
Anyone know a tutorial, source or something. I want to make something like this.

10x.

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History Timeline
My Dad's 70th birthday is rapidly approaching and I've been researching/compiling a copy of the family tree as a surprise for him. As a result I've acquired a lot of old photo's so I'm thinking about creating something in Flash, probably a projector file, that he can scroll through at his leisure.

Rather than a standard image gallery, I was thinking about placing them in some kind of historical timeline. Anyone got any hints/example FLA's/links to tutorials etc. that I can use to kick-start this project?

Also, I've made projector files before but what if I wanted him to be able to view them on a TV via a DVD player? Should I think about using a DVD authoring program instead of Flash?

Any guidance would be appreciated.

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History Timeline.
Hi.

Not too long ago, I ran across a tutorial for making a flash historical timeline very similar to this: Rock and Roll Timeline.

Does anyone know where to find the tutorial for this interface or another timeline with the same type of features? thanks!

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History Menu
In the stills section of this site:
http://www.thehorusproject.com/index2.html
it is a cool navigation menu.
Anyone know a tutorial, source or something. I want to make something like this.

10x.

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Javascript:history.go(-1)
This is STILL driving me absolutely insane. I am using this code within flash to go to previous page from browsers history. It works fine on my mac, but testing in Windows IE7 it only works once.

http://www.bloxdesigns.com/jewelry/n...em2/index.html (then I click on picture link on bottom and on next page hit "back" it works and then I hit "back" again and it just seems to try to reload the current page even though my browser's back button works.)

Just for fun I took the code out of flash and placed directly on the page ... then it worked. I still might have to do this (which will mean I will have to redesign the site.) I have also tried history.back(), placing the AS directly on the button, putting it on both the onRelease and onPress handlers and calling it as a function that I place in my HTML. I have been stuck for days ... any help is so appreciated!!!!!! My FLA is at http://www.bloxdesigns.com/flash/item01.fla

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FLASH History
Hi,

does anyone know bout any web document containing the history of Flash up to the current version?

Please help

Sept

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History Timeline.
Hello.

Not too long ago, I ran across a tutorial for making a historical timeline very similar to this: Rock and Roll Timeline.

Does anyone know where to find the tutorial for this interface or another timeline with the same types of functions? thanks!

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History Timeline
I am trying to create a history timeline in Flash and at present are having no joy.

Can anyone suggest a good tutorial or way to produce the timeline

What i would like to achieve is a slider slides from left to right and when pointing at a date shows the information for that date below the timeine.

Any help would be great

Cheers

James

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Browser History
Does anyone know a way to add an entry to the browser history with actionscript? I want to workaround the back button taking users back out of my flash site.

Thanks.

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Buttons With History (javascriptesque)?
Hi:

I've got a movie with many scenes. Each scene has a link to this one scene, Directions. In this Directions scene I want to put a back button that will pop you back to whatever scene it was that you came from. Is there any way to do this?

Many thanks to whom ever knows the answer!

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[ History Timeline Effect ] (e.g U2.com)
Hey All,

I need to incorporate a draggable timeline effect into a project im workin on at the moment, simaliar to the example at http://www.u2.com and http://www.motown.com.

Does anyone know of any tutorials on the web that show you how to acheive this and in particular the 'on release' slip-effect that occurs when the draggable button is released. Know what I mean?

Check out those sites if u havent cus they're great anyway...

if someone could put me in the right direction, i'd be grateful.

L

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History - 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

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History Back Button
Hi

I am making a presentation which has numerous scenes. I want to
place a back button which will perform as a history back button
in any web browser.

Pls. help.

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User History = Grey
OK...brand new to forum...relatively new to Flash MX.
Have a Flash shell and html site in same folder. Shell has links which go to html site. This site has text and images. Images when clicked, run a .swf.
Question: How can I tell a shell property, when .swf activated in html page, shell property (button) grays, dims or changes somehow. Not too familiar with Action script language, so confused. I know .swfs can 'talk' to each other but need a script.
This will solve the problem of a user not knowing where he/she has been before.
C'mon gurus...help me out here!

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User History = Grey
OK, I've tried the General help and no-one wants to know !!
Here's the question:
Flash MX.
Have a Flash shell and html site in same folder. Shell has links which go to html site. This site has text and images. Images when clicked, run a .swf.
Question: How can I tell a shell property, when .swf activated in html page, shell property (button) grays, dims or changes somehow. Not too familiar with Action script language, so confused. I know .swfs can 'talk' to each other but need a script.
This will solve the problem of a user not knowing where he/she has been before.
C'mon gurus...help me out here!

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Any Way To Make SWF Not To Load From History?
HI

guys is there anyone who knows a way so that the swf movies doesnot loads from the cache! becuase when once the site is open next time it is opened directly from cache........ i want to by pass this. is there any way please help?

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History Of Actionscript And Flash
Hi everyone.

I am a confused student with a tricky schoolassignment. My job is to find out where actionscript comes from, why it exists and why you use it. So if anyone has any information that could help me I'd be thrilled, you'd acctually save my day!

I don't have very much experience or knowledge about programming so please explain as simple as you can.

//Fjantmaster

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Automating With History Panel
So I know in MX 2004 you're supposed to be able to save actions to use in batch operations. However, I haven't much experience/luck with it.

Here's what I need to do:

At my company we have an online training system that only takes .swf files to play as background audio. Because of the nature of the system, for every wav file I receive I have to import it into a Flash movie, set the sound to streaming, stretch out the timeline for as long as the audio file is, and put a stop action at the end.

Is there a way to automate this such that I could point Flash at a folder full of wav files and have it spit out .swf files?

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Back/ History Button
Hi,

I'm making a website
the structor of the website:
Main.swf

here i load the Menu and the Content in 2 diffrent movie clips

the content changes every time someone clicks on the menu items the menu, this works fine but i also want a back button in every content so i need flash to remember where he was 1 click before, i think i have to use varables but don't have an idea where to begin

thx in advance

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Back Stepping Through A History?
Dear all

I have built a fairly complex flash product in Flash MX 2004 with several frames in which there are movie clips within movie clips. I have now been asked to provide buttons that step back and forward through the ‘history’ of the user’s progress.

I cannot see a simple way to do this. At first glance it looked easy to emulate the ‘back’ and ‘forward’ buttons on a web browser. But a few attempts to record position in an array became very ugly because the system needs to know if the user is ‘backing-up’ and therefore should not record the position in the history. Also I need to manage what happens when the user reaches a ‘branch’ point and moves forward again.

Does anyone have a simple solution to this ?

Thanks

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