Hi folks,
I’m pretty new to Flash in general, and I’m trying to put up a slick website for my illustrative work. At present, I understand animation and movement pretty decently. I’m at the point where I could probably put together an entire site - if not for these pesky links and rollovers!
I’m needing to solve these problems (I’m working in ActionScript 3.0 in Flash CS3):
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I have a preloader that essentially works, but I don’t think it’s set up right to fix the time it is loading with the time it takes the page to load. Basically all I think it’s doing now is playing for the length of the timeline it occupies…
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I cannot get my “Skip Intro” button to link anywhere. I just need it to link to my external homepage swf, called “home.swf”. I see the hand sign, as it is a button, but it will not link out to another page (which I’d like to be self-contained, not opening up another window). I’ve tried many versions of code I’ve found through Flash help places I’ve visited online…, nothing works… ;(
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I need the last frame of the intro to automatically redirect to the “home.swf” page - in the same window. Right now it just keeps looping, although I have a “stop” on the last frame of the last row/layer, and I’ve made certain there are no other layers that are longer than this row.
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Once all of my menu buttons (which are actually movies) load on the “home.swf” page, I’d like them to serve as buttons that will link to the other pages (within the same window). But I can’t for the life of me figure out how to link these movies to the URLs for the corresponding pages, or how to accomplish rollover effects (just a simple contracting/expanding of the button-movie based upon whether the mouse is over it). I’ve followed 2 tutorials and came up dry.
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Last, I’d like the “home.swf” page’s exit animation (when a user clicks on another page via the menu buttons) to be a reverse of the existing intro animation. I’d probably like to add a different sound though.
For anyone kind enough to want to take a few minutes to look at this - I’ve uploaded both the “intro.swf” (containing the preloader and intro) and the “home.swf” pages, here at: http://www.gigasize.com/get.php?d=ncrotstydnd.
Thanks for any help at all!
P.S., I’m really doing as much as I can on my own. I even paid someone experienced with Flash quite a bit to tutor me, but obviously I still need help :cry3:…
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