# Flash menu - dynamically showing current page
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-menu-dynamically-showing-current-page/7755
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [November 7, 2002, 1:32am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-menu-dynamically-showing-current-page/7755 "2002-11-07T01:32:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@merrick](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/merrick)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2002, 1:32am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-menu-dynamically-showing-current-page/7755/1 "2002-11-07T01:32:15Z")
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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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2002, 1:34am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-menu-dynamically-showing-current-page/7755/2 "2002-11-07T01:34:58Z")
> \*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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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2002, 1:37am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-menu-dynamically-showing-current-page/7755/3 "2002-11-07T01:37:23Z")
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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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2002, 1:38am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-menu-dynamically-showing-current-page/7755/4 "2002-11-07T01:38:46Z")
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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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2002, 4:17am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-menu-dynamically-showing-current-page/7755/5 "2002-11-07T04:17:39Z")
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?