I have asked this question on different message boards, but received little, if no response. I hope that maybe you can help me!
I have a flash menu that I’d like to use on a HTML page. I’d like to make it so that when a user clicks one of the buttons, that button will remain highlighted on the page that uploads. An example of this would be at www.tigerwoods.com
How is this possible with action script? I was told in another board that it had to do with variables, though the person did not give a clear explanation that I could understand. I’m new to action script but am learning bit by bit!
If you can help me, I’d be so appreciative!! If possible, can you provide an example? Thanks!
Ok once again, I’ll show you a really basic and simple method. There are many different ways to go about this, but I’ll show you my way since I have an example FLA file ready that I made a long time ago.
Study the setup and the actions I’ve used. Good luck. =)
Hi! I downloaded the attachment and took a look at it, but it’s hard for me to understand. Could you explain why you have the different sections? (section 1, 2, 3) Do these represent the HTML pages? What do the stop actions on the buttons represent? Thanks for your help!! I’m sure I’ll get it with your help!
You could use those sections to load a different HTML pages by placing a getURL action in each section.
Each button has an action that tells flash to go to a certain section and stop there. So if you have a getURL in each section then when you click a button it will go to that section and load that HTML page.
Also when you click on a button it has an action to tell that button to play since it’s actually a movieclip that blinks. If you click on another button there is an action to tell the previous button to stop blinking and play the current button which will now blink.
I hope that was a bit more clearer, you’ll have to study the example a bit more.
Sure you can, you’ll have to edit the button so that it will have only 2 frames, one will be the normal state and the other will be the high lighted state.
You’ll also have to edit the action script on the buttons to tell it to go to frame 2 where the highlighted state would be. And on the other button you would have a action to tell the previous button to return to frame 1 of it’s normal state…etc…