Flash :: Page 2 - Please Help Me

Opening New Page BUT That Page Loads In Behind The Page You Are On.
Is it possible to load a web page from an action script (just like when you click on a button to open a new page)

Basically I want to create a Flash banner and somewhere along the "movie" have it launch MY web page and have it load in the background, behind the browser that holds the banner.

BTW - I have the permission by the person who will host my banner.

I just have to make it work.

Can this be done???

And how????

Thanks in advance!

Page 2 - Loading A Movieclip That Always Stays Center Into My Flash Full Screen Page?
Tann, regarding the proportion resize, do you know if there is a way to make it so that when you drag the browser window, you are restricted to dragging it at its flash proportion. Just like if you are in photoshop, and if you decide to transform an image and I think press control or alt while you drag the corners, it will resize it proportionally.

Right now, if you drag the browser window, you can drag it any shape, and if the browser window height exceeds the flash height, it will allow you to do it, but the empty space is filled with the background colour of the html page.

Would like it, so that the window is not draggable anymore if its proport width or height has exceeded.

I hope that makes sense.

Making A Button That Allows Your Flash Page To Be The Browser Default Home Page.
Mmn, seems the original post dissapeared while i was typing , no prob, here is the code in anycase!

Ok a simple trick in IE but not in Netscape, as far as i know, its not possible to do this in Netscape. Also you shouldnt make the home page your swf file, but rather the html file with the swf in it.

First this requires an xml namespace to function, so change your top <html> tag to look like

<html XMLNS:IE>

Then create the IE:Homepage object using this, it can be placed anywhere on your page as long as it happens before the javascript.

<IE:HOMEPAGE ID="oHomePage" />

And finaly the javascript function that you will call from your flash file (using getULR('changeMyHomePage()') in flash) or from a normal link.

Code:
function changeMyHomePage() {
oHomePage.setHomePage ('http://www.womenslife.co.za/Default.asp');
}
Hope that was not to hair razing, post again if you have a question.
[Edited by threnody on 01-18-2002 at 04:50 PM]

Sliding Page, Loading External .swfs By Button In Slidng Page
Hi

I have a sliding page navigation system and am trying to dynamically load external .swf's into that movieclip and am having major problems can anybody tell me how to load them.

I basically want it so that once the user clicks the button on the main screen a sliding page MC slides open (which I have done) and within that sliding page MC lies a button I want to load an external.swf after the button is clicked

on (release) {
_root.contents.loadMovie("myexternal.swf");
}

I've given the empty MC a instrance name of "contents" and have the external .swf in the same location)

I've also tried

on (release) {
contents.loadMovie("locations.swf");
}

I can get an external swf to load directly into the sliding page MC without the button but when I try and control it via the button it doesn't work. P.s. the actions abvove were applied directly to the button

hope somebody can help

thanks in advance

Dips

Opening Popup Page In Standalone Projection (no Html Mother Page)
Hello,
I am creating a standalone projector (CD with autorun).
This means my swf files are NOT contained within html.
I would like to, when clicking on button, open a popup html page with specific dimensions.
I was wondering if it is possible to do that, and what AS to use,
or if I have the obligation, to openpopups, to launch my swf files WITHIN html mother page.
HERE IS THE CODE OF MY BUTTON THAT WORKS (but does not open popup):
on (press) {
getURL("URL", "_blank");
}
HERE IS THE CODE FOR POPUP BUT DOES NOT WORK (opens html page normaly):
on (press) {
getURL("URL", "", "width=580,height=400,left=100,top=100");
}

thanks guys.

Swf Working Fine In Html Page But Showing In Asp Page In Ie Only(not Firefox &Opera)
Hi friends,

I am stuck in a weird problem.

A simple code for displaying flash slider in asp page is wrking fine in IE but not wrking properly in firefox & Opera browser.

same piece of code is wrking good in HTML file and showing properly in IE, firefox & Opera.

I am placing the piece of code and also attaching the asp page containing the code.

Please help me to solve the issue.

Code:
<table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=3 align=<%=imgAlign%>>
<tr>
<td align="center" width="50%">
<OBJECT classid="clsid: D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" WIDTH="420" HEIGHT="730" id="slideShow">
<PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="slideShow.swf">
<PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high>
<PARAM name="wmode" value="transparent">
<EMBED src="slideShow.swf" quality=high bgcolor=#FFFFFF WIDTH="420" HEIGHT="730" NAME="myMovieName" ALIGN="" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash"PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></EMBED>
</OBJECT>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
regards

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

Display 150 Page Text File In Page Format In Flash
What i would like to do is grab the text from a 150 page text file and display it in flash. Sure i could just open up a pdf from the file but thats not what i want to do. I want the text to be in the flash frame.

How would i go about this? I don't know anything about VB or mysql. I saved the file as an xml file could i somehow import that?

Cursor Disappears In .aspx Page When Using Flash Movie On Same Page
Dear friends,
I am facing this problem when I am using .swf file on my sites login page, there is 2 text box of User Name and password and submit button it is all are web controls, i want cursor at user name control when user comes to login page but it is not showing there but when I remove the .swf file from the login page then default cursor comes there, please help me.

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!

Flash Page Stops Dynamically Stretching After .swf Page Loaded
Hello

I have a flash site that has four pages which all stretch to fit window size.

As soon as I go to a gallery page that is called in via SWF, and come back, I loose my dynamic stretching of all my pages...I would like the SWF page to stretch to fit also, and its isn't...

any thoughts?

thanks!

celticvfx

How To Redirect Current Page To Specific Page Using Flash 8 Actionscri
could any one tell me how i can redirect current page to a specific page using flash 8 actionscript.Thanks

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

[F8] LoadMovie Flashes Home Page Before Correct Page
Hi All,

I've used mc's for my text navigation mouseovers and I've assigned the loadMovie action to the invisible buttons using a blank container (blank_mc).
When I test the movie 'home.swf' and click on the navigation - there is a second or two-long load of the home page before the right page loads.

Is there a way to fix this? Something I did?

thanks,

Pati

Call Anchor In Html Page From Dynamic Page
Hi,

I'm having a problem with calling an anchor in an html page.
I try to do this from an dynamic textfield, in this textfield is a html code like:
<a href="page.html#anchor1">link</a> when i click it my default browser Safari(OSX) is opening and is pointing to page.html without the anchor link....This problem is a that is only happening in Safari. Can someone help me out here??

Greeting Zeb

Can Flash Talking With Javascript In The Same Page Without Reload The Page?
is it possible to recieve and send parameter to a javascript without reload the page?

if it possible I have attached what I need if anyone can help.

thank you.

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 -

Front Page Forms -- Not Connecting To Confirmation Page
Kirupa -- First, thanks for publishing such a great, clear book. I'm a first time Front Page user and was completely unable to get my Web to publish to my URL. Bought your book this morning and have ironed out (most of ) my problems already.

Last remaining bug: Can't get my my forms page to 1) submit content to my e-mail and 2) connect to my confirmation page.

Thought I'd followed the steps outlined in Module 10 pretty faithfully, but it's still not working; instead flips the user to a "page not found" page. Any insight?

www.girlswhowearglasses.net

Kate Vesper

Popup Page In Standalone Swf (no Parent Html Page)
I am having a similar problem as david68 http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthre...ight=popup+swf

I have created a standalone swf (my swf files are NOT contained within html). When a button is clicked I would like to open a popup html page with specific dimensions. There is surely a way to do this, right? By specifying the size in the HTML document using JavaScript or CSS....or possibly using some sort of script in getURL?

I tried using JavaScript in getURL in Flash...like this somewhat...

getURL("javascript:window.open('URL', 'win_name', 'width=580,height=400,left=100,top=100');");

But like david68, a blank white page opens and closes itself in the speed of a blinking eye.

Any ideas? Please help! Thanks.

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..

Flash Form -> .htacces Protected Page Page
I'm wondering if I can build a flash login form that will access an .htaccess protected area?

I have a rough draft working where I'm using this protocol:

https://username:password@myprotectedsite.com/page.php

However, on a mac, in safari, it seems a bit buggy. The form works, and via a getURL will open the protected page. However, the username and password appear plain as day in the activity window (because I'm using getURL I'm sure) - then if I logout of that protected section, then go back to my form and hit submit, it open the browswer to the page, but actually pastes the url into the url window - that can't be good! I've also read that some people can't get it to work on IE.

Any knowledge of this?
Whats the best way to do this - possible php gateway and use loadvars to pass to php when then accesses the page? if so how?

Thanks!

Page 2 - Goto Page Function Script Is Not Working?
no because skipPgNmbr is the variable name you have assigned the TextField, not it's instance name. You would have to give it an instance name (which should be a different name than the variable name), lets call it skipPage:

_level0.skipPage.restrict = "a-z A-Z 0-9";

You don't need the if statement after that since it just won't let you input anything that isn't one of those chars in the first place. The rest of the code seems fine.

Page 3 - Goto Page Function Script Is Not Working?
How would I go about putting a limit of say any number greater or equal to 151 will cause an error?

How 2 Load SWF File 2 My Page In Front Page XP
Dear Frineds,

I just joined a Hosted Web and I like Falsh and Swish Enemations... I'm new in Web Disgning and I have Swish for fun and for my Wall Papers... Now since I have a Page I need to make it as good as I can.

So please someone help me on how to run SWF File on HTML Page using Front Page XP. Were in Front Page 2000 there is a Blug-in but its not there in XP..

Please help

Interface (load New Page Over Previous Page)
What I want to do is have a page loaded, and when the button for another page is clicked the new page drops down over the current one. I'm sure this is easy to do, but I am new to this and have no idea where to start.

Could one of you tell me how to do this, or point me in the direction of a good tutorial for how to do it?

Thanks.

Flash Menu: Can It Be Altered From Page To Page?
I really, really need some help with this. Here's what I'm trying to do:

I have a small flash movie on my home page that serves as the navigation/menu. When a user clicks on, say, the "photos" button I'd like to 1.) send them to the Photos Page (obviously), and 2.) reuse that same flash movie in the Photos Page, only have the photos button take on a different look/color and no longer be active.

IS THIS POSSIBLE? Can a single flash menu - if it's used on every page in a web site - jump to different key frames depending on which page the user is visiting in that web site?

I really hope this makes sense. Let me know if you need me to clarify anything. THANKS!

How To I Add Pictures To A Page, But Not Have Them Show Up On My Main Page.
Hi, I'm very new at this flash stuff and have been on the computer all day today and have tried everything...and I know it can't be hard.

Ok...

I'm creating my web page (I wish I could show it to you, but I'm not sure how).

Anyway...it starts off with the menu bar flying in. All my site will be is a bunch of photos under different catagories (personal site).

After the button flies in, I would like to simply PUSH the button and go the page I've created with the pictures. I can't figure out how to make another page, nor can I make the button push and go to that page.

Any tutorials or anyone can help me.

Thanks.
Trishy
Trishy.com

Problem With Flash Reloading From Page To Page
What can I do to make a Flash movie with an html page reload on a specific frame.

Example.

The Flash movie is navigation. When you click button "about" an image changes from "image a" to "image b" and you are sent to about.htm . Now of course the Flash movie must reload in the new page causing the image to start back at "image a" again rather than staying at "image b"

Is there a way around this?

thanks

goldpan

If I Designed A Page By Flash ,how I Make It As Web Page?
hi ..
if i design page by flash how i make it as web site? ...please told me how i be web flash designer ...i need this job quickly ..i knew designed any page by flash but how i make it web page !!!!!!!!

Index Page. Swf In A Full Screen Page
Hi out there!

I have aquestion and would appreciate your support.

I would like to embedded my 760 x 400 swf in a full screen window (760 x 400 swf - in the middle).

Does anybody know the html code for the index page that produce this effect.

Thanks in advance
Andi

Having An Html Page Load A Swf File Outside The Page?
Here's another challenge for you gurus. Well..maybe not a challenge to you people...but certainly one for me

I haved created a movie which I like to have played full screen. I know this is not usually desirable, however in the case I would like it so.

I have added an fscommand to the first frame of my movie:

fscommand("fullscreen", "true");

When I play my swf movie it works fine, but it won't go fullscreen in my browser. So I guess I have three questions:

1. Is there a way to force the browser to go fullscreen (no scroll bars either)...or...

2. Is there an "onload" command that I can use in my html file that will launch the swf file as a standalone player?

3. I notice if I put the full url to my swf file in my browser that will work as well..so maybe there is some sort of redirection I can use to redirect my index.htm page to XXX.swf ?

Thanks again...you guys are awesome.

Abe

Read Image Page By Page Tutorials
If I want to show my images page by page (like user can read the image in a book), any this kind of tutorial on the internet?

Simple Page By Page Flash Site HELP
Hello!
I'd like to make a simple website in Flash, such as the following:
http://www.honeyee.com/feature/2006/hp/index.html

I am a bit of a newbie and am not too familiar with the preloaders.

That page is definitely simple, the needs are simply:

1 main format for all pages.
Next and Previous buttons (or text navigation with numbers or section titles)

preloader each time one clicks to view a new page.

Can someone help me out? thanks.

Page Up / To Top Of Page Button & General Questions
Hi,

I'm somewhat of a newbie when it comes to programming with flash and I have a few general questions regarding some things.

First off, I was wondering if it is possible to create a button that would act the same as an html anchor within a flash scene, in the way that a "up to top of page" button works (using the a name tag in html)

The reason I would like to do this is because I am designing a page in flash that is going to be around 1024 x 1325 in resolution because of the amount of content I need to display per page/scene, and it would be helpful if I could place this "up to top" button at the bottom of the pages to allow people to easily scroll up to the top of the page.

This also leads into my next question, which is the use of scroll bars within flash. If possible, I would like to make a separate "frame" with scrollbars for these longer "pages" that require me to use the 1325 height specification, so that I wouldn't have to specify an exact width/height for the embedded flash object (ie: using 100% for width & height instead of exact dimensions) and that way the site (embedded flash object) would show up and fill the screen for all different user screen resolutions.

Hopefully this makes sense. I suppose I could also have the "longer" pages be in an entire other flash movie/object, and have the shorter ones reference to them, so that I could specify different widths/heights when embedding into the html file, however I was hoping to use one complete file (swf) for the entire site.

Or if there is a way to have the flash object embedded so that it can fill the browser 100% width wise, but allow for varying heights? I hope I am making somewhat sense here in regards to what I'm looking for

Any help would be appreciated, especially with using anchors as I first mentioned!

Thanks!

AS PAge Positioning For Full Page Design
HEy I know this is probably a easy little script but I am trying to find out how to position something always 50 px from the left side so if I resize my window it will always go to that position. If I can get it to ease.Cubic each time that would be great.
Can anyone help.
Thanks

D

Transition From Home Page To Next Page In Same Windo
I can't wrap my head around how to have my home page transition to the selected page in the same window.
My home page animates on, the buttons pop up. When you click on the 'design' button, I want to trigger an animation where the home page slides down off the bottom of the screen, and the 'design' page slides down from the top. I know how to do the animation part of it, but I'm not sure how to put it all together. I'm using CS3 AS2

Thanks

Small Question - Page Up/Page Down Keys
I have this small problem with getting input from the keyboard. I have created a listener for the keyboard (onKeyDown) and I don't know why, it does not trigger when the Page Up/Page Down keys are pressed. It triggers with every other key but with the Page Up/Page Down keys, it does not trigger and I need to know when the Page Up/Page Down keys have been pressed.

This is the code I'm using, pretty simple. It just traces "Key Pressed" whenever a key is pressed. It checks if the keys are Page Up or Page Down and if so it will display another message. Still it does not trigger with the Page Up / Page Down keys.

Code:
var oKeyListener:Object = new Object();
oKeyListener.onKeyDown = function():Void {
trace("Key Pressed");
if (Key.isDown(Key.PGDN)) {
trace("Page Down Key Pressed");
}
if (Key.isDown(Key.PGUP)) {
trace("Page Up Key Pressed");
}
}
Key.addListener(oKeyListener);
I'd really appreciate if someone can anybody help me out with this small problem?

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

Keeping Flash Nav Alive Page To Page
I have built a navigation scheme in Flash which has a number of randomly generated elements moving randomly, etc. A bunch of pages of the site have been created with my flash piece stuck in as an object. The problem is that when a link is hit in flash and a new page is loaded, the flash nav will reload from starting position. Is there a way to go from page to page and keep the flash in its current state, with all the randomly generated elements not regenerating and looking weird? It's built in VS 2005.

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

How To REMOVE The Previous Page And Upload The New Page
When I click on a horizontal navigation button, it uploads the new page on top of another instead of REMOVE the previous page and upload the new page. How do I fix it? Both this.myLoader.removeMovieClip(); and this.removeMovieClip(); don't work.

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var myLoader:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader();

function clearPage(){
this.myLoader.removeMovieClip();
}

homeMC.onRelease = function() {
clearPage();
myLoader.loadClip("home.swf", mcHolder);
}

designMC.onRelease = function() {
clearPage();
myLoader.loadClip("design.swf ", mcHolder);
}

developMC.onRelease = function() {
clearPage();
myLoader.loadClip("develop.swf", mcHolder);
}

Page Turning Effect (NOT Page Flip)
Hi,

Anyone know how to emulate this page turning effect on http://artpartner.com/? I've investigated the various page flip effects but the client wants it super simple and without the page curl touches.

Thanks.

Sending Variable To Php Page - Login Page
I'm trying to login to a password protected php page through a form in flash.
When the user provides correct information the flashmovie opens a php-page, but how do I protect the php page from unautorized accesses?

Can I send a variable containing the user/pass given?
I know I could tell flash to "getURL www.address.com/admin.php?user=user&pass=12345", but then everyone who checks history can access the page without even having to access the flash page...

Anyone getting what I mean?

Thanks!!
Regards,
Michael

Page 2 - Please Help Me

just a strong word of advice as you troubleshoot your problem:Make it work in Internet Explorer first. It will save you so much time. I'm sure that most people here will strongly agree with this approach.

just a strong word of advice as you troubleshoot your problem:
Make it work in Internet Explorer first. It will save you so much time. I'm sure that most people here will strongly agree with this approach.