Flash menu - dynamically showing current page

programming flash
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The situation is pretty simple, yet I’m feeling like a simpleton since I can’t figure it out.

I have a standard navigation menu that runs throughout a site. Each button has a simple rollover animation, taking the default state from green with blue text, to blue with white text.

How can I tell Flash what page I’m on so the current page’s button is blue by default?

Cheers

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*Originally posted by merrick *
**How can I tell Flash what page I’m on so the current page’s button is blue by default?
**

didnt understand that one!

yours,
h88

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all you do is you make the button blue in that movie…

u don’t have to have flash know what page ur on

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Hehe, sorry about that.

Okay, say I have 10 buttons & 10 pages. If I’m on page 5, how can I send a command to the flash movie using JS to say “Make button 5’s background blue instead of the default green every other button is using”?

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Okay, got it sorted out. I created 10 new scenes, one for each button, with the appropriate button on each made blue. Then I added 10 new frames on Scene 1 which called gotoAndStop(“sceneName”,1)

Then I just called window.document.submenu.GotoFrame(theFrame); from the HTML page using the body tag’s onLoad function. So if I wanted to highlight button 1, I called window.document.submenu.GotoFrame(1);

Not very elegant, but it works sweet as, and only added about 3K to the swf. Anyone have a better way to do it though?