Flash :: Navigating PROBLEM

Help In Navigating A Map Please.........
I'm looking for ideas for navigating a vectorized map.

I would like it to function with 2 magnifying glass buttons: one for zooming, and one for coming out.

Does anyone know how to make this function? When a user clicks on the zoom button, they get a magnifying glass and whereever they click on the map, it zooms. And vice versa with the zoom out button.

I want it to function like an adobe acrobat file does...

Thanks for any help!!

Navigating PDF Still
O.K. folks here's the deal.

I'm trying to get Flash MX to navigate to a specific spot (page is fine) in a PDF file. I have an HTML set up with my menu in one frame, and a PDF file in another frame. I want the user to click on page 3 on my menu, and the PDF file goes to page 3.

I thank Justmade for trying to help, but I am not at that level. I tried to figure out what LPFlashEx.exe was doing, and it didn't work when I launched it, and when I looked at the FLA file part of my brain exploded.

Justmade said I could do it in HTML with Javascript. Does anyone have an example?

Thanks

Navigating Between SWF's
Chaps and Chapesses

Could anybody tell me the simple line code for navigating between seperate swf files within the same browser?

e.g.

I have a movie with the id "header" and another with the id "menu". Is it possible to click on one and affect the other one?

I presume it is done in much the same way as Target Paths e.g. _level3.gotoAndPlay(5); etc. etc.

Thanks.

Navigating Around A Map? HELP
(flash mx 2004)
Hello All, this is my first post here!

I have a Question that you might have a quick answer for people on here... Basically I am trying to create this website/animated book. The idea is to have a map in the background that moves to a different place according to the chapter or 'stop" along the map.

The book will begin, chapter 1, map is at location1, then at chapter 2, the map will re-adjust and move to a different point. I also wanted to know how to make this possible with a Back and Next button. I have heard that scenes do this and I am sure position coordinates can control this, but I dont know the code.

I have an example of what I am trying to mimic... http://www.sva-dv.com

I appreciate all the help in advance,
Allan

(check out my design website if your interested http://www.AllanPortera.com)

Navigating To Url
Is there any way go to a link without opening a new window? I couldnt find anything about it.

Navigating Between MC's
i am currently working on a flash interactive piece that consists of multiple MC's.

from my "main.swf"(level 0), a file called "skull.swf" is loaded into level 1. how do I script a return button within the skull.swf that will take you back to the first frame of the second scene(first scene is preloader) in main.swf?

appreciate any feedback

Navigating Between Swf's
Im in the process of building a flash project. its set up like so:

from the main GUI(main.swf), a button called "curator" takes you to the "curator" scene in the main.swf.

the curator scene consists of one frame with the code-

stop();

loadMovieNum("curator.swf",1);

this loads fine my problem is getting back to "main.swf" once the new swf has been loaded into it.

ive been trying to put the following code on my "return to main " button-

on(release){
_level0.gotoAndStop("start");

}

but nothing happens- do I need to unload "curator.swf" somehow? I also need to be able to return from multiple scenes within "curator.swf" back to "main.swf"?

I would greatly appreciate any help . thanks

Navigating To An Swf While Within Another Swf
Okay, here is my question. I have learned how to do a flash project with a number of .swf's that load when they are called for () loadmovie. I have a main swf/projector file with navigation buttons "home," "projects" etc. I also have these inside my other swf's that get loaded when they swf's are called up. My problem is that when I try to click the buttons embedded in the secondary swf's to navigate to the main timeline they do nothing.

I have tried some scripts for the loaded swf's ranging from on(release) {
_root.gotoandplay("projects");
}

I have tried just about every actionscript I could find online. Could you give me a hint as to what I could possibly be doing wrong. I could really use a hand with this one. HEEEEEELLLLLLPPPPPPPPPPPP PPPPPPLLLLLLLEEEEEAAAAAAASSSSSSSEEEEEEE (hahah)

Navigating
I used the following code to my invisible button:

inv_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, buttonClickHandler);
function buttonClickHandler(event:MouseEvent):void {
navigateToURL(new URLRequest("

Navigating Between Swf's
I am attempting to create a better navigational system for my web site. The main 'page' (swf) opens with an animation that ends revealing the main navigational buttons for the entire site. I have broken this page into five scenes which link to each other differently depending upon viewer interaction. This main swf seems to be working well.

I have put the rest of the content of the site into several other swf's to divide up the load time. Otherwise I don't think anyone with a modem connection would bother looking at my site. I have linked the main site to the other sites using the code:

on (release) {
loadMovieNum("swf.swf", 0);
}

That's working well - I can get to all of the other content swf's OK.

The problem is getting back into the main site without starting from the first frame. I want to start at scene "elfNav" whose first frame is labeled "elfNav" but so far have only been able to return to the main swf by using the following code on a 'back' button in the content swf's:

on (release) {
unloadMovieNum(0);
}
on (release) {
loadMovieNum("elfstoneSite.swf", 0);
}

How can I specify exactly where (which scene or which labeled frame) opens within "elfstoneSite.swf"? I have tried every variation I can think of and so far have only gotten error messages. I'm new to writing code and have hesitated to try anything with different levels for fear it would only add to my confusion.
Thanks,
Sue

Navigating XML
Hey there..im having trouble with this xml file.
what im trying to do is load a thumbnail,then its respective swf file through xml.

The structure has to stay the same because of update i will be making to it, so if anyone can point out what i have to do to display the respective .swf can you please post.

Cheers

XML

Code:
<featured>
<one thumb="1.jpg">one.swf</one>
</featured>
Heres the AS

Code:
// Load XML
function loadXML(loaded){
_root.featured =
this.firstChild.childNodes[0].childNodes[0].firstChild;

_root.one =
this.firstChild.childNodes[0].attributes;

trace(_root.one.thumb) // Displays Attribute

};
xmlData = new XML();
xmlData.ignoreWhite = true;
xmlData.onLoad = loadXML;
xmlData.load("this.xml");

Navigating Through MC...........
HI!
hello to every one.
guys i got a problem.you must have visited the site http://www.swift3d.com you have noticed that when you click some button a movie is played.and is you hit the second button the current movie is unloaded or play back and than second one comes.
if you have some knowledge about it tell me it could be done.
waiting for you reply.......
bstudio.http://www.swift3d.com

Navigating Through Scenes
Hi everyone.

I have built a Flash 5 film called "MAIN" with different scences (25). Now, I have built a navigation in a seperate film ( in level2) and and I want to use the navigation buttons to go from one scene to the next in the Film called "MAIN"(in level1). I know there is a command for nextFrame().

Like:

on (press) {
_level1.nextFrame();
}

How does it works to jump to the next scene ?

Thanks for your help,

Gregor.

Navigating Through Scenes
I am making a slideshow style tutorial in Flash 4. I am using scenes for each "slide".

At the end of each scene I put a keyframe with the action "Stop".

And a button with this action:

On (Release)
Go to Next Scene
Play
End On

When I play it on the stage it works right but when I go to Control>Test Movie it doesn't.

The button replays the scene over rather than advancing to the next scene.

Why won't it advance to the next scene? Do I need to use the Tell Target action? I haven't been able to get that to work either.

Thanks in advance, Laura

Navigating Thru An Array
howdy friend

i have a graphic timeline in my movie and a MC called 'dragger' which, when dragged to the right and left, navigates thru different parts of the timeline, revealing info in a dynamic text box, and will later navigate thru corisponding pics, such as: bob's pic and bob's bio, mary's pic and mary's bio etc.

there are ten objects to navigate thru, such as:
bob, bill, mary, joe, etc...when the 'dragger' is dragged

i'm creating 2 buttons which move the 'dragger' MC to the right or left to predetermined spots... as described in an array, such as:

xspot = [-100, -75, -50, -25, 0, 25, 50, 75, 100];

this array was created so the 'dragger' MC knew where to snap to when dragged to different x positions ('dragger' can only be dragged right or left)

ok, so when the 'dragger' is dragged, it snaps to diff. spots as defined in the xspot array, and a dynamic text box's value is changed for each person's bio.

So, what i want to do now is have 2 buttons navigate thru the list of names, which consists of changing three things:

1. the _x position of 'dragger'
2. the contents of the dynamic text box 'biotext'
3. and will later include changing the pic for each person

i'm probably making this way more complicated than necc...

so what i need is some slick way to find out where i am on the timeline, and move everything (the 3 above variables) to the right or left one notch each time a user presses the right or left buttons. then when we come all the way to the right, we loop back to the beginning.

any suggestions greatly appreciated!

thanks for your time,
quazi

ps. feel free to ask for clarification

Navigating Through Different SWF Files
I have two SWF files one has a menu in it (file1) and the other has main content (file2). Does anybody know how to do the following? When clicking on a button in file1, file2 reloads and goes to a specific frame (named anchor)?

Navigating To A Certain Scene
I need to go from one movie to another. When in the next movie i need it to go straight to a certain scene.
(flash 5)

Navigating To A New Movie
Ok im in one movie, lets call it Movie2.swf. Ok if im in movie2.swf, and i want to get to movie1.swf and to a certain scene in movie1.swf, how do i do this?

Navigating To Another Movie
Ok im in one movie, lets call it Movie2.swf. Ok if im in movie2.swf, and i want to get to movie1.swf and to a certain scene in movie1.swf, how do i do this?

Loadaction Navigating
I am producing a 38 slide onscreen presentation and have created a mainmovie.swf containing 38 Scenes.

On the 1st frame of each scene I have an action to load two external swf movies, 1 named (menu.swf) (_level1) and the other intromovie.swf (_level2) so that it makes updating these elements easier and will update in all 38 slides instantly.

My problem is the menu.swf contains nested movies which contain buttons.
I have been able to target frames on the host mainmovie.swf by using the following script.

On (press){
–level0.gotoAndPlay(frame number)

but I want to be able to put a script on the menu buttons to tell the main timeline to go to a specific Scene is this possible without having actions on the timeline of the mainmovie with gotoAndplay(Scenenumber) as that way I would need 38 actions on all 38 slides and if I needed to change them I would need to update 38 times which seems long winded.

I only have basic action script knowledge and hope you flash geniuses may have an easy solution.

Cheers

Problems With Navigating To Next Qn
I need ur help!

I am now developing a multiple choice quiz. however i have some problems with navigating to the next question.

After the choice button is clicked, the error or bingo message pops out and stays there for a pause. Then animation is played. After that, the next qn pops out.

But the problem is that I am not sure how to make it go to next qn after the animation is played.

I am not sure what to write in actionscript to make it go to next question.

how do i make it go to next qn?

Can u take a look at my file? i am not sure what code to write to make it go to next qn.

thanks! my file is very simple and clear. it is not messy.

i am using flash mx.

Navigating In Flash
I have seen it done many time in HTML sites.

Here goes!

I have an events page.

At the top I have 20 links
i.e July 1 , July 2 etc..

I wan when a user click on "July 1" it jumps down to july 1st and displays that section only...

I want everything on the same page that way if a user wants to scroll the entire page they can..

How can I achieve this Great flashers of the world?

Keyboard Navigating
There is a tutorial out there similar to this, but it's not for MX. I was curious if there is an MX tutorial so say if I wanted my users to type in where they wanted to go, they'd type it in. It would display on the screen and they would hit enter and it would take them there. Basically what I am tring to do. Thanks

Navigating To A Frame
Hi,

I've a framed webpage, one of the frames is called "Details".

What I want to do is when the user clicks on a flash button, the Details frame is updated accordingly.

I have the following code...
on(release)
{
getURL("about.htm",details)
}

But that doesn't work, the frame where the flash is gets updated instead. I've even tried telling the HTML page what the default base-frame is, and that still doesn't work.

Any ideas?

TIA

Navigating Through Levels - Help
I've got a flash movie that loads a swf onto level 1.

When I press a button on the loaded swf file, I want it to return to a specified frame of the host movie (level 0).

I've used the unload movie action but that takes me to frame 1 of the host movie. How can I get round this, if for example I want to got to and stop at frame 5.

Any help much appreciated.

Navigating Through Levels HELP
I've got a flash movie that loads a swf onto level 1.

When I press a button on the loaded swf file, I want it to return to a specified frame of the host movie (level 0).

I've used the unload movie action but that takes me to frame 1 of the host movie. How can I get round this, if for example I want to got to and stop at frame 5.

Any help much appreciated.

Navigating Levels - Please HELP
I've got a flash movie that loads a swf onto level 1.

When I press a button on the loaded swf file, I want it to return to a specified frame of the host movie (level 0).

I've used the unload movie action but that takes me to frame 1 of the host movie. How can I get round this, if for example I want to got to and stop at frame 5.

Any help much appreciated.

Navigating Through Scenes
I'm familiar with basic Flash but I'm trying create my first Flash Website. (this is for my local Lions club that I'm a member of)

What I'm trying to do is have a different scene for each section of my site (Home, About, Links, etc...) I'm playing around with a basic page with three buttons and three scenes but I always have trouble going back through the previous scenes. I have it set up with one frame in each scene and that frame has the action of (stop). I have the action set for each button to go to the corresponding scene.

I'm having toruble finding a tutorial on setting up a web like this. does anyone know of a tutorial on setting up a web using Flash? Or maybe you can shoot me some pointers that would help out.

Attached is my basic file that I'm using to try to figure this out. If anyone can see what I'm doing wrong, maybe you could correct it and tell me what the problem is?

Any help I can get would be greatly appreciated.

Navigating To A Scene
i'm in a total mess.

i created a series of buttons to navigate through my movie... in each scene, the buttons need to finish playing the remaining frames of the current movie(11-20), and THEN need to gotoandplay a particular scene.

i know zilch for actionscript so i took some advice:

i assigned a variable "locate" to each button so that

onrelease
locate = "homescene"
gotoandplay (11)

this would assign a frame label "homescene" to the variable locate so that after the movie plays frames 11-20, an action ordering: gotoandplay(locate) would take you to "homescene"

instead flash ignores all this variable stuff and simply plays my scenes in order, no matter which button i press. I can hit the same button and cycle through all scenes.

there must be an easier way to tell a button to play frames 11-20 THEN gotoandplay a NEW scene.

any ideas are greatly appreciated.
downbey

Navigating Different Movies
I am just trying to make button in a child movie "slider" tell the parent which frame to play. The help in MX is confusing to me. Can anyone tell me what is missing in this script?

on (release) {
targetPath(slider);
gotoAndPlay(10);
}

Slider is the child, Parent has no name...help!

Q

Help--Navigating Scenes
I'm building a training program using flash and want the users to be able to push a button to go to another scene (different topic of training). I've tried attaching action script gotoandplay but it doesnt' work. What am I doing wrong.

Navigating Between Scenes MX
OK folks, I'm new to flash MX, I could do this in flash 5 no problemn

on (release) {
}gotoAndPlay();

I'm trying to have the movie go to frame 1 of a scene called "portfolio".

on (release) {
}gotoAndPlay("portfolio" 1); does not work =(

Please help! There are no drop down menus to make this easier, or are there?

Navigating Headaches
The problem is when I go to click on a link, as you can see by the names of each link, the clicked link is taking me to the link directly below it.

What the %#&*%@...I have no idea what's going on.

For instance, when I click on the "Imaging & Coding" link, it takes me to "Automated Data Extraction" (as you can see by the page identifier in the sliding content window).

help

-Matthew

www.geekless.com/pd/index.html <-----this is the link for the project

www.geekless.com/pd/index.swf

www.geekless.com/pd/index.fla

Navigating In Flash Using Url
Basically ive got a site in flash embedded in a html page (look at sig). Ar the moment all the navigation is in the flash movie. Basically what i want to do is add html links to an intro page so that the user can navigate to certain parts of the movie for e.g. 5 links in intro :about us,pc callout, it services, online shopping, contact us, that will take the user to the same part of the flash as the buttons in the flash do. I am under the impression this can be done using javascript something like;

<a href='javascript:example.TGotoAndPlay("_level0/InstanceNameOfMC", "NameOfLabelOrFrameNumber")'>Goto And Play Method</a> <a href='javascript:example.TGotoAndStop("_level0/InstanceNameOfMC", "NameOfLabelOrFrameNumber")'>Goto And Stop Method</a>

Am i on the right tracks or is my flash just too complex to go to a specific part?

Thanks in advance guys

Navigating A Loaded JPG
Hi there,

When I'm trying to load a JPG, is it possible to navigate into a directory structure? For example:

mclLoader.loadClip("01.jpg", mcthumb01);

Lets me load my JPG from the same folder as the main SWF. Can I somehow create a directory structure within the folder where the main SWF is and navigate down into it? Can I go up out of the folder and go to other folders in my main directory structure? I know there was a way to do this, but I can't recall and haven't been able to find it on the forums.

Thanks,
Jeff~

Navigating Between Scenes
I'm trying to navigate between scenes in order to have a bigger view of images for my portfolio page. I was able to make a button that switched to the new scene. Here is the action script I used:

on (release) {
gotoAndStop("Scene 2","aligbig");

}

But I want to return to the main scene by clicking on the button in the 2nd scene. I tried to use the action script:

on (release) {
gotoAndStop("Scene 1", "ill");
}

because "ill" is the frame label I used for the initial thumbnail view. I hope this makes sense to you guys.

Thanks in advance!

Navigating Between SWF Files
I am working with Flash MX Professional building some one-line training modules. I have a page that have an index:

Scope
Key Definitions
Process Requirements
CIPS architecture
Document numbering scheme
Support System level process flow summary.

My question is how do I create a link within an swf file being they are separate files. I want the employee to be able to click on any of the above title and the file will open. Can someone please help me.

Navigating Between Scenes
First off I am using Flash MX Professional 2004.

I have some movies that needed to be updated. Adding new scenes, etc... I have come across this problem before and don't really understand why it is happening. Most likely something very silly. Here's my problem.

Let's say I have two scenes. One being "contact" and the other being "form". I have two buttons set to go to these scenes using...

on (release) {
{gotoAndPlay("contact", 1);
}
}

and

on (release) {
{gotoAndPlay("form", 1);
}
}

I then needed to add a new scene called "general", and add a new button in all the scenes with the following code on it...

on (release) {
{gotoAndPlay("general", 1);
}
}

Now all my buttons just go back to the beginning of the movie. I've also had this problem if I rename scenes, and make sure I have modified the actions on the buttons. I do have a stop(); action at the end of each scene.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Van

Navigating MovieClip
I'm attempting to have a button on the main timeLine control which frame a movieClip will be in. I tried the code below but it didnt work. Any ideas?

on (release){
_root.ourCompany.gotoAndStop(3);
}

Navigating Between Scenes
For some reason I can't get the buttons to navigat between scenes...I keep getting errors. Perhaps someone can take a look & see what the problem is?

You can see the .fla here: www.wildfiremarketinggroup.com/dev/db/index.fla

Navigating Scenes
I'm having trouble navigating from my main scene to any of the other (6) scenes. When I click a button on the main scene, it always goes to the next scene in the list instead of the scene it's supposed to go to. I rearranged the scenes and no matter the order, it always goes to the next in the list. Here's the code I'm using:

on (press) {
Gotoandplay("Pacific","1");
}

I've searched the forum and looked for an answer everywhere, but it seems like what I'm doing should work. Any ideas?

Navigating Slideshow
Hey,

I've a sample slideshow at http://www.creativenergy.ie/portfolio/logo_port.html (my own site) - and I'd like to be able to get a forward AND reverse arrow to navigate it...

is there an easy way to reverse the playback so i dont have to animate double the amount of samples just to be able to Go back to the previous sample? I currently just have a 'next' button

you'll see what i mean from the link - tried actionscripting it but got totally lost! would like to learn the best way - not just an easy answer!

Thanks in advance...

G
_____________________
OSX 10.4.7 - Flash Pro 8

Navigating With Keys
I want to allow a user to navigate a series of frames without using a button to take up or obstruct screen space. I've tried using a Key.Listener, just as others have claimed success with in posts, but it does not work for me. I am using Flash 8 (pro) the code is set to 2.0 and the player is 8 or higher.

Here is what I placed on my the root timeline, frame1, level1:

Code:
stop();
var NextListener = new Object();
NextListener.onKeyDown = function(){
if(Key.isDown(Key.RIGHT)){
nextFrame();
}else{
if(Key.isDown(Key.LEFT)){
prevFrame();
}
}
};
Key.addListener(NextListener);

This code works fine with the first iteration, but the second iteration causes frame skipping. It doesn't matter if I use "this." or not. It doesn't matter if I include a mechanism to identify frame one. It doesn't matter if the iteration comes from cycling past the last frame and directly to the first or frim the last frame stepped back to the first.

I am guessing that the problem is with the listener, but I don't really know. If anyone can explain why this is acting the way it is I would love to hear it. If someone has an alternate strategy, I'd be thankful for that as well.

Thanks, Tomas

Navigating With Buttons
Hi there
I'm creating a header on a site out of flash that will sit on a php page. The header has navigation buttons (like home, contact us, about us...)...

I've created "on mouse over" actions before but I would to know how I can change the look of the button when the user is on that page...

For example, when they come to the homepage, all buttons have a black background, but when they go to the contact us page all buttons have a black background and the contact us button has a red background... Same concept for the other buttons...

Thanks!

[F8] Navigating Between Scenes
i am having trouble telling my button to jump back to scene 1 and gotoAndplay scene 21. i have applied some actionscript on my missions button but it will not do it for some reason? I have a link to the .FLA file if anyone could help i have been ripping my hair out for hours trying to figure it out.

http://www.frexandfetcher.com/entiresite.fla

Thanks for your help,

-voot

Navigating From Different Scenes
I know there has to be a way to do this, but my company is too cheep to pay for any sort of flash training - this means I’m stuck learning Flash and Action Script on my own

Anyway...

From scene 1, you have the option to navigate to scene 2 or 3.

I need the ability to use a "back" button that will recognize which scene you just came from. so:
- If you start on scene 1 and go to scene 3, the back button takes you to scene 1
- If you start on Scene 2 and go to Scene 3, the back button takes you to scene 2.

This is a tutorial, so it is vital to have the next and back buttons work accordingly.

Navigating XML Nodes
I'm losing the will to live here...
I have read Jesse Stratford's tut XML 101 but the firstChild/nextSibling/childNodes/nodeValue stuff isn't sinking in.

I can't work out how to go about collating all the data in the xml structure below and then add it to an object in Flash then move each node’s value into the object, using the node name as the object's attribute name(as in the tut). So I could do trace(example.tom.image) and I'd get back "images/tom.jpg".

Whatever I do I either get null, undefined or I get the entire xml duplicated three times? Can anyone help me out here?

PHP Code:

<example>
  <tom>
    <name>Tom</name>
    <age>40</age>
    <image>images/tom.jpg</image>
  </tom>
  <dick>
    <name>Dick</name>
    <age>25</age>
    <image>images/dick.jpg</image>
  </dick>
  <harry>
    <name>Harry</name>
    <age>17</age>
    <image>images/harry.jpg</image>
  </harry>
</example>

Navigating From Pop-Up Window
Hi guys I've made an interactive flash menu for a client that needs to open in a pop-up window and then when the user clicks a link it needs to open that page in the original (parent) window.

I'm having a really hard time getting it to open the links in the parent window, my deadline is comming up and I could really use some help on this one if anyone knows the proper script or link to a tutorial that would be awesome. I thought I could do it by simply targeting _parent in my getURL but that opens the page in the pop-up window itself.

Mad respect to anyone who can help with this.