Dear Flash grown-ups;
I know this has already been discussed before, but I’m trying to make [COLOR=DarkRed]a site[/COLOR] with HTML content, but a Flash menu bar. Menu buttons should change state depending on what the current page is, e.g. if you’re on the Contact Us page, the Contact Us button is dimmed out as if unavailable. Since I don’t know Java, the only possible method that I saw was making a separate duplicate of the same SWF menu for every page with the exception of the corresponding button in the menu being dimmed out in each duplicate. The obvious problem was that those SWFs would need to reload on every page load, resulting in a brief but significant (and annoying enough) disappearance and reappearance of the menu bar. At that time, logic suggested that this problem could be easily fixed by loading bitmap elements into MCs externally as opposed to importing them to the library. I naturally assumed that since all SWFs use the exact same bitmap files loaded from the exact same location, the aforementioned brief flashing would go away. How naive was that? I hit the wall and the deadline is closing in like the headlight of the chu chu in the tunnel. HEEEELP!!! :scared:
In addition to this, I’m experiencing yet another unexpected problem: aside from the main menu bar SWF, I also have a price calculation SWF. These two work fine if they are loaded into [COLOR=DarkRed]separate**[/COLOR] HTML pages; when both put [COLOR=DarkRed]**[URL=“http://sparklingicejewelry.com/hqsduplication.com/pricing.html”]on the same HTML page[/COLOR], however, they do not load properly/completely.
Any help would be super.
Thanks
[SIZE=1]PS. I read that the SWF menu HTML page thing can be achieved through iFrames, but my concern is that some browsers, such as Netscape, don’t support iFrames. If you hav any suggestions on how to approach the problem, please let me know[/SIZE]
