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Linking External .swf's Into A Flash Menu
I'm am so frustrated at this point.....please HELP!
I have created a menu in flash to link several .swf files that were created in Macromedia Captivate. I just want the user to click on a button, then have the screen jump to the corresponding .swf, then return back to the menu when the movie is done playing. If I link the file to the text instead of the button, it works, kind of.

I would like the movies to play at about full screen size, same as the menu.
I have tried several different lines of code, none of which seem to work right. At this point, I am so confused, I have no idea what code is correct.

Also, even code that seems right is coming up with an error saying...

"Symbol=MenuDropDown, layer=Layer 1, frame=2:Line 1: ')' or ',' expected.
where am I supposed to be putting a , or ) ???

At this moment, the code attached to one of my buttons is..... (and I know this is not right, but just as an example...)

on (release) {(_root.loadMovie(file:///S:MCITHelp DeskCaptivateTracking SystemWork FilesNicoleBryans Movies"Open Service COnsole page.swf"
}

loadVariables("Open Service Console page.swf", 'thewin', 'thewin', 'height=748, width=1024, toolbar=no, scrollbar=no');

If anyone can guide me in the right direction, I would Love You! Please help me.

Linking To External .swfs From A Scrolling Menu
hi i have made a scroliing menu using claudios scroller and i want the buttons to open external clips on the other side of the scene. when the button is clicked the menu disapears. how do make it so that the menu stays there and the information is loaded aswell.
Thanks

Please Help Linking A Flash Menu
I've got a flash menu on my car club page and I'm having all sorts of problems linking the buttons to the pages. my main problem is that I cant scroll all the way to the end of the flash to be able to link the buttons. I am at the symbol that has the buttons loading up one after each other. I scrolled to the end and linked each button. but when I preview the flash all the buttons link to page of the first button. Here is a link to the .fla file. http://www.midstateimports.com/menu.fla . If anyone here can tell me how to link the buttons or even do it for me it would be greatly appreciated.

Linking In A Flash Menu (help)
Hello!

I am currently making a website where the entire top part of the design, including the menu, is a flash. I have the menu, with all the different buttons with different names of sections on it that change when the mouse is over it. Unfortunately, since I did not design the flash (I bought it as a template with a html graphic design below it) this is my first day ever using the Macromedia Flash program and I don't know how to make links in the flash menu. When I click on it in the full html design, it does nothing and has no link.

Can anyone help me please?

Thank you!

Linking A Flash Menu
Hi,

I have got a site with frames. On the left frame I imported a flash menu and now I want to link the items in that flash menu to the right frame so when clicked the information appears in the right frame.
How do I do that????

check http://www.geocities.com/alien19802002/ to see what I mean

and this is what 1 have under the buttons for example:

on (release){
getURL ("http://www.meerevents.nl","rechts");
}

Help Linking Flash Menu Buttons Within The Same Swf
Can someone please help!!!

I need help linking flash menu buttons to different parts within the main flash website. The dropdown menu is an extrernal swf.

I've tried to follow a lot of tutorials on this, but the buttons dont seem to work.

Please help, and thanks in advance!

Simple Linking From Flash Menu
Hi All, I've been having some trouble finishing off my (very basic really) website and the main reason is because i can't get the links to work from the flash menu that i have. I didn't write the flash, but managed to edit up everything else i needed except for this!

this is the website

http://www.martinmulholland.com/video.html

the menu i'm talking about is the one on the right

as you can see all the lights are on, and i've got HTML pages ready for those links to go to, but can't figure out how to script flash to make it work

here is the code from the SWF file, the rest is just play and stop commands, this is the meat of it, i'm using Flash CS3 but its older stuff (AS1 or 2 i think)

Quote:

on (rollOver) {
if (_root.link<>1) {
this.gotoAndPlay("s1");
}
}
on (releaseOutside, rollOut) {
if (_root.link<>1) {
this.gotoAndPlay("s2");
}
}
on (release) {
if (_root.link<>1) {
_root["item"+_root.link].gotoAndPlay("s2");
_root.link = 1;
}
}

Linking To External .avi From Flash
Flash MX 2002
Ok i dont know how many times i've looked this up but i can't seem to get it to work. I am making a presentation projector on a CD. I want to have a button on the presentation that when pressed the .avi will pop up and play in windows media player or whatever standard player the user has to play .avi's.

The getURL worked perfect for .pdf's but when i try this with the .avi the button clicks like normal but task bar just flashes white.

scripts i've tried...

on (release) {
getURL("chdst.avi");
}

on (release) {
fscommand("exec", "chdst.avi");
}

I tried installing flashjester demo to see if that would help but it didn't so there was no point in buying it. Also tried Invoke and that didn't work at all.

The only other thing that worked was using a batch file to open the .avi in windows media player that almost worked fine. Only problem with the batch file is the black CMD window that pops up and I can't have that. If you all know a way to minimize that black window that would be cool and i could do that i guess.

on (release) {
fscommand("exec", "chdst.bat");
}

Any help would be awesome.

Linking Flash Menu With HTML Page
Hi ,

Please let me know How to Link Flash Menu with HTML Page .

Your reply is highly appreciated.

Thanks ,

Linking Cool MAC Flash Button Menu?
Does anyone have an idea how to link the Buttons for the COOL FLASH BUTTON MENU to a regular URL?

Thanks

Problem Linking My Button Objects In My Flash Menu...
Hello all, I recently got back into flash after a 6 year hiatus.

I have CS3 and I have been trying endlessly to create a simple flash menu that has text links with a rollover effect.

I created a project and set up separate buttons with rollover effects, but if i try to put a URL link for any of the buttons in the button editing area it is always somewhat faulty... meaning when I publish and test it i have to literally click on the link 15-20 times with my mouse until it shoots me to the link.. its very odd.

I am guessing I am doing something completely wrong.

I uploaded the file in a zip. This file has my buttons WITHOUT any URLs input to see if anyone could add the proper code for one of them and I could apply it to the rest... or just tell me I am way off.

http://www.allergik.com/menutest.zip

Thanks.
Paul

Flash Menu Linking To Anchors On Html/asp Page...
hi all...

haven't posted in a long time....

but i have a Q:

I have a flash menu and i am trying to link to several anchors on a page... but it doesn't seem to work...

here's what i have done...

in flash menu:

on (press) {
getURL("http://www.mysite.co.uk/folder1/folde2/index.asp#News");
}

then on the asp page.... i have the anchor 'News'

Would be grateful if someone could point out what i am doing wrong...

cheers'
ben...

Linking Flash Menu To Urls + Preloader Issue
I have a menu bar in my (Dreamweaver created) web site with various buttons that link to other pages of the site. At the moment I am using the 'get URL' command followed by the full web site address eg www.address.com to locate the other pages.

Is there a better way of doing this that links to the web pages locally within its own structure. i.e without sending a full web page command? Obviously the method I am using doesnt allow me to check my web site offline while I'm trying to work on it.

Also - the flash menu bar has a preloader. The links to the pages work but when it first opens you get a split second glimpse of the preloader page as it re-displays the same menu bar on the new page. Is there any way of preventing this. I dont want to use split frames.

Reverend D

Linking To External Flash Files
I'm creating a project with mutiple SWF files and want to link them from one another. i cannot find anything in the flash mx bible on this.in other words,i want to open swf2 from within swf1.
(the files are all located in the same folder)

Linking A Button In An FLA To An External Flash EXE
Dear friends,

I'm new to flash and would like the forum to assist resolve how to attach an action to a button in an fla and link to an external flash exe. I don't know whether the same question has been asked before.

Harrison from Botswana Africa

Linking To External Flash File? Help Plz...
Hello,

I am having a problem linking to an external flash file (one that is not hosted on my server). It wont play when I load up the page in my browser. Is there any trick I should know about when doing this? This is my code:

<object classid="clsid27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0" width="600" height="74">
<param name="movie" value="http://www.urltofile/file.swf">
<param name="quality" value="high">
<embed src="http://www.urltofile/file.swf" width="600" height="74" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed>
</object>

I put http://www.urltofile/file.swf in place of the actual url to the file. I created this in dreamweaver and put the correct url in the URL box and its just not working. It works with flash files that are on my server though.

Thanks for your help.

Linking External Css Onto A Page Though Flash
Is there a way to link an external css file though flash onto another page?? Because i'm working on a new tool for myspace resource site and myspace wont let u use the link <LINK> tags..

Flash External Text Linking
Hey guys,
I've created a flash scroll that externaly links a text file- so that I can show flash but only have to update the text file- it's for tour dates for various bands I want to make easy to update -without having to get involved with the swf itself- but it's for bands myspace pages which is embedding code to prevent external linking flash- I'm a begginer -totally- but my question is is there any ideas anyone has that would allow me to link text into flash so I can update the text file only and get around this problem in myspace?

Linking External Flash Pages
Please help me, I have spent many hours trying to figure out how this works and why it doesn't but i can't do it!!! I want my contact us button on my flash page to go to the contact us page when you click on it. I already exported as a flash file to the SAME folder as the homepage and I already tried the code to load an external flash file and it doesn't work. and yes I changed the file name to match what is in the code, please help me!
I need step by step instructions cause I'm a noob.

I would upload the file but it is too big.

Summary-
Want to link a flash page with a button
External flash page file name -contact us

Thank You!

Linking To External Pictures From A Flash Site
evenin' all

How do i do a link to an external photo? E.g. theres a picture on one of my html sites which i wanna make appear on my flash site, without having to download and add it to flash???

cheers!!!

Linking To Various Frames In An External Flash Movie
I am trying to link images in an image gallery to various frames in an external Flash movie.

If I click on image 5 in the image gallery, it should open an external Flash movie and navigate to frame 5. Or, if I click on 6, it should open the same external Flash movie then navigate to frame 6.

I found a wealth of info on the forum, but none of the code seemed to work. It either just loaded the external movie without navigating to the targeted frame, or it cycled through the movie over and over.

Here is what I have . . .

From the thumbnail page, I have one of the links with the the following code:

on(release){
_global.whereToGo = "image5";
getURL("ch_gallery.html", "_Blank");
}

Another image link has this code:

on(release){
_global.whereToGo = "image6";
getURL("ch_gallery.html", "_Blank");
}

And the external Flash file has this in the first frame:

stop();
this.onEnterFrame = function(){
if(_global.whereToGo = "image5"){
this.gotoAndStop(_global.whereToGo);
delete this.onEnterFrame;
} else {
// Play as normal, No variable specified
play();
}
};

This seems to work fine but since the line has "if(_global.whereToGo = "image5"){" I can't get it to navigate to any other frame from the thumbnail page. This external page needs to accept other "whereToGos". Possible?

Also the external Flash movie has a preloader, does this cause a problem with the script?

Thanks

Flash 8 Problem Linking To External Mp3s
I am using date and sound classes to upload mp3s based on date. It works fine as long as the sounds are in the library... Unfortunately I cannot have them reside there - the file gets too huge. I had them placed on our server.
I removed the mp3 files from the fla library and then pointed the action script to call up the sounds from the urls where they now reside. I get an undefined error - it is looking for the mp3s on my desktop. How do I get the fla to point to the urls??? Anyone had this problem?

Linking Flash Movie To External Webpage
Greetings All

Ive been working on this problem for a while now and haven't found the right solution but I was hoping someone would be able to tell how to link the flash images at www.totalrenovations.com.au/tp/ to an external webpage, using an ActionScript getURL command or even a Javascript onclick event if possible? I am using Flash MX 2004.

Is there a way to convert the entire movie (including all layers) to a button symbol to allow the ActionScript command to work without error?

Any assistance would be muchly appreciated.

Kind regards

RichardN

Linking From Flash Menu Link To Ext. HTML Page Inside A DIV LAYER
I have a page that combines Flash and HTML in Dreamweaver 8. I have my links menu generated in Flash MX 2004. My desire is to have a link (when clicked from the Flash swf menu file) bring in a new html page into an existing LAYER of the same Dreamweaver document. Is this possible? My idea is to not have to reload all the other elements of the page, just the items on the one layer with new content. I know how to do this if the page were all Flash, but this is for an html page using the LAYER div tag.
Thanks for your help
Craig

Help With Linking To Specific Frame On External Flash Movie
Hello everyone, I'm fairly new to using Flash, and I've run into a slight problem. ^_^;;

I have made a button to unload the current movie on the stage and load in a different movie, and have accomplished this using behaviors in Flash MX2004.

However, I am unable to have that button go to a specific frame of the newly loaded movie after it gets loaded up.

I have this so far.

on (release) {

//unload Movie Behavior
if(this == Number(this)){
unloadMovieNum(this);
} else {
this.unloadMovie();
}
//End Behavior

//load Movie Behavior
if(this == Number(this)){
loadMovieNum("aboutus.swf",this);
} else {
this.loadMovie("aboutus.swf");
}
//End Behavior

//Movieclip GotoAndStop Behavior
aboutus.swf.gotoAndStop("54");
//End Behavior
}

Is there anything I can do to get it to work properly?

Thanks. ^_^

Flash Html Code Linking To External File.
Hello,
Im just curious if this is even possible.

What if I wanted to like my embeded object to an external swf file on a different server. Kinda like linking an image to a separte location but just doing it with flash in the embeded html code.

this is an example what Im trying to do.

Quote:

<object classid="clsid27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/s...rsion=7,0,19,0" width="255" height="175">
<param name="movie" value="file:http://www.trinitymicrodesign.com/example.html" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<embed src="file:http://www.trinitymicrodesign.com/example.html" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="255" height="175"></embed>
</object>

Any insight would be great
Thanks

Help With Pop Up Menu (Sub Menu Buttons) Linking To Frame On Main Timeline
Hi,
I really need help with my flash project. I've created a pop up menu by having 4 buttons on the main timeline which I made into a movie clip which has an instance name of menu_mc. Inside that movie clip I have my sub menu created and the menu works great. My only problem is that I can't seem to link the submenu buttons to the frames created on the main timeline. I've tried all the action script I can think of. One example I am using is

menu_mc.contact_btn.onfiltered= function() {
gotoAndStop("Scene 1", "contact");
}

This is where I am trying to link the Contact Button (which is a submenu button of the About button) to the contact frame which is located on the main timeline. Please help me if you can. Thanks.

Flash Behavior Design Required-linking To External Html File
Hi peeps,

I'm aiming to build a flash (mx 2004) library of behaviors to make my life a little easier. I need just a few little scripts... that I will pay upto each £50 for.

My first requirement:

I need a custom behaviour designed in Flash for calling up external html content. The way I envisage this behaviour is that you can apply it to a dynamic text region. From there you will need to define some simple parameters via a menu:
1)HTML file source

2)Style sheet source (I want the styles to be controlled externally via a CSS, although I should be able to apply styles and link to external stylesheets from within the html file)

3)…and any other parameters that you think is necessary.

Just reply to this thread or mail me at:
hassan@thecroc.com

Thanks
Hass

Linking Problems W/ Cool Menu FX Menu
Hi, I have a Flash site that I created a side menu for using Cool Menu FX and can be viewed at the link below:

http://www.graphicdesign-nh.com/fc2/fcflashsite.html

The menu loads externally in the Flash site using the LoadMovie command. I set up links for the side menu buttons using Cool Menu FX to go to specific frame labels specified as named anchors (ie., fcflashsite.html#howworks) in the Flash site file. If the menu file is opened in Macromedia Player, the buttons work in that they open the browser window and it goes to the correct anchor label in the Flash site file. However, when the menu is viewed in the site as in the above URL the buttons don't work at all. Any ideas what is wrong? It seems like something simple. Please let me know. I'd appreciate any help. Thanks!

LInking Problems W/ Cool Menu FX Menu
Hi, I have a Flash site that I created a side menu for using Cool Menu FX and can be viewed at the link below:

http://www.graphicdesign-nh.com/fc2/fcflashsite.html

The menu loads externally in the Flash site using the LoadMovie command. I set up links for the side menu buttons using Cool Menu FX to go to specific frame labels specified as named anchors (ie., fcflashsite.html#howworks) in the Flash site file. If the menu file is opened in Macromedia Player, the buttons work in that they open the browser window and it goes to the correct anchor label in the Flash site file. However, when the menu is viewed in the site as in the above URL the buttons don't work at all. Any ideas what is wrong? It seems like something simple. Please let me know. I'd appreciate any help. Thanks!

XML Menu Linking - HELP
Hello, everyone! I suppose there has been such a topic already, but I cannot find it. I have been doing some XML menu (I have covered all the XML tutorials here on kirupa.com) and the code is doing just fine. I am using this one:

Code:
item_spacing = 100;
item_count = 0;
function BuildMenu(menu_xml){
broj = menu_xml.firstChild.childNodes;
for(i=0;i<broj.length;i++){
if(broj[i].attributes.name == "menu"){
var labels = broj[i].firstChild;
var item_mc = menu_mc.attachMovie("button_mc", "button"+item_count+"_mc", item_count);
item_mc._x = item_count*item_spacing;
item_count++;
item_mc.menu_txt.text = labels.nodeValue;
}
}
}
var menu_xml = new XML();
menu_xml.ignoreWhite = true;
menu_xml.onLoad = function(success){
if(success){
BuildMenu(this);
}
else{
trace("Error");
}
}
menu_xml.load("menu.xml");
The "button_mc" I am attaching to the "menu_mc" consists of a dynamic text field and a rectangle which is transformed to a button using this code:

Code:
frame 1:
stop();

this.onEnterFrame = function(){
if(rewind == true){
prevFrame();
}
}
this.onRollOver = this.onDragOver = function(){
rewind = false;
play();
}
this.onRollOut = this.onDragOut = function(){
rewind = true;
}

frame 6:
stop();
The XML file looks something like this:

Code:
<menu>
<item name="menu" link="movie1.swf">HOME</item>
<item name="menu" link="movie2.swf">PROFILE</item>
.
.
.
</menu>
The menu builds without any problems. But, now comes the problematic part... I want to give those buttons in the menu the function to load .swf-s into the "loader_mc" which is on the main timeline. "loader_mc" is basically the place where I want my "movie1.swf" etc. to load into.

I have been trying to figure it out by myself for two days now and I gave up. I hope someone can help me with this. What can I do (what code to write) so that every button gets to load a different .swf into the "loader_mc"?

Thanks in advance!!!

Flash 5 Sub Menu External Txt Are U Clever Enough
I have quite a good menu system that uses a header with sub menus that are linked to an external text files to create the headers and text with them.

What I want to be able to do now is that when the text linked sub menus are clicked on not only do you get the associated text but also it links to an animation linked to it with each sub menu item.

Hope that is all understandable and am looking to you guys for help

Cheers

SB

Linking From A Draggable Menu
Hi everyone, I'm trying to make my first site on Flash MX, and so far jus' fiddling around with different navigation systems. I made a little draggable menu, and then got kinda stuck with making buttons within the Menu Clip link back to the main timeline and change the frame position.. (I'm REALLY new to Flash btw, especially Actionscript, it's my first day lol) So far I have this:

http://strangedaze.tripod.ca/Menu.swf

The design isn't final, I know it's ropey

I tried making the ":: Sketches" a movie clip and trying to attach goToAndStop but I think I may have just messed up the code.. would that work if I put the code in correctly?
then I tried making it a button and that didn't quite work either. Any help/comments much appreciated

Problem Still With Linking Menu
Still my Problem is this i have a button inside a movieclip, inside a movie clip (no im not stuttering, its inside 2 movieclips) and i need to link it to a another scene in this movie.

if i try a basic "on release root.gotoandplay" it throws the mouse over away and doesnt work.

I need to link the Blue button of the guys shaking hands that is in the scroller to the following scene... "transition_ partners"

that is where i start to encounter a major problem... cause sometimes the mouseover effect goes away aswell.

Please.... i think it is impossible. if you dont get it right then i am gonna have to redo the entire menu system.

Attached is the version minus the grey test block and cut down to size.

Troulbe With Linking A Menu
i have a menu i created and im having problems links my submenu topics to html address and some will call in swf's i really have know idea how do this any help will be great i will attach the file since it is difficult for me to fully explain accurately again thanx to anyone trying help

Help In Linking Horizontal Menu Bar
i've been following the tutorial on the link below to create a dynamic horizontal menu bar but now i encounter a problem which i cant link the buttons to another scene?...anyone can help?

http://www.layoutgalaxy.com/html/htm...er49-page1.htm

Thanks in Advance

Linking Pop Menu To It Scenes
I need some ones expertise.

I have created a "test" pop up menu with its sub links as a movie clip(s) for a web site Im designing.

I would like for them is to link them to its scenes. for eg: profiles to scene 2 with its sub links showing, and also linking the sub menus to their own scenes

Im hoping some can help me, I'm in desperate need

You can email, so I can email the file, for some unknown reason, I can not attached the file

Cheers

Menu Buttons & Linking
Hello,
I am a very big newbie to the world of flash and I am taking a college course for it. What I did was create a menu with buttons that link to certain areas of my flash movie (for my assignment). I did this by labeling certain areas and then referring to the names on the buttons. The problem was I could not figure out how to do this in ActionScript 3, I could only do it in ActionScript 2. Now I have other things I have to do in Flash but the entire book I have is written for ActionScript 3. What I would like help with is changing the current ActionScript 2 commands over to ActionScript 3. The commands are such as:
Code:
on (rollOver) {
gotoAndPlay("Menu 1");
}
and
Code:
on (release) {
gotoAndPlay("Scene 1", "Inspired");
}
Any help with this would be greatly appreciated!! Thanks in advance!

Linking Up A Drop Down Menu
Hey, Just curious if someone can help-I am inserting a .swf drop down menu into a dreamweaverMX webpage -when I press on a specific field in a drop down menu-how can I get it to go to a specific area in my webpage? just curious where and what code I would put in to direct it to a page in my website.

Sub Menu Buttons Not Linking
Hello everyone;

I have an fla, 4 scenes. scene one is home. I have a movie on the stage that has several layers, first is actions, with stop on the first frame. I also have a button that has a rollover action to go to frame two where the sub menu buttons appear. I also have invisible buttons to close the sub menus by going to frame one. Everything is working great except for this. What I want is that when the user clicks on the sub menu button, it takes him to scene2. That is not happening, I have checked on the spelling of the scene names and everything. What is actually happening when the sub menu button is clicked, all the sub menu buttons dissappear instead. I also tried creating several new files and do the same thing with no solution.
Please see attached FLA.

Can anyone help plz.
Thanks
Raffi

Drop Down Menu-linking
hi,
newb question-but-when I press on a selection in the drop down menu-how do I get it to go to a certain page in my website-I have attached a drop down menu from this site-please help
thanks

Linking From Carousel Menu
Hi,

I'm getting into the carousel menu, and its great. I'm at the end of tutorial two however I want to build a menu where i can just click on the menu items and go to a page on my website, like a normal link.

Can I do this with the XML file?
How do I create a new variable to do this?

Linking A Sub-menu Button To A Scene
Hi ..

I was wondering if someone could help me, I'm not sure if
I'm doing anything right !

I have a site with about 3 'flash 5 pages; all in the one
.swf with 3 scenes. Each scene is only one frame.

In the first scene I have a menu bar which contains a
popup menu. I want to link one of the sub-menu's buttons
inside the popup menu to go to and play scene 2 but I can't get it to work.

All my scenes have stop actions on the first frame, as
they are only one frame. I'm not sure if this is right
either, maybe this has something to do with it. But
if I don't have the stop action on each scene, when I
go to ctrl-testmovie in loops all the 3 scenes.

Can anyone please help me with this at all?
It would be soooooooooooooo much appreciated,

Thankyou,

torcha

Linking A Sub-menu Button To A Scene
Hi

I am trying to link a sub-menu button to scene 2 but it
doesn't seem to work. I have 3 scenes and I am using buttons to jump to scenes.

The button is inside two movies and i have attached
this bit of actionscript:

on (release) {
tellTarget ("/") {
gotoAndPlay ("scene 2", 1);
}
}

I've also tried gotoandstop but that doesn't work either.

Basically what ever scene I choose it just completely ignores it and jumps to the next scene ALWAYS which happens to be scene 2.

please can anyone help I've been stuck on this for over
3 days.

Thanks,

torcha