Hi,
I am creating a website for a friend of mine who is a professional photographer. So far the sites going well and it’s almost complete except for a few minor complications.
First of all, the url is www.aprilmaciborka.com.
The first problem I’m having is that the menu doesn’t seem to want to work right regardless of how I code it. For example, if you click on the “people” menu, and then try to click on editorial, it won’t work.
I’ve made sure that the instance names of the buttons are the same on each frame. And I’ve even tried creating a separate button that looks the same but has a different instance name, and then attaching the same ActionScript to it.
Any ideas why this would be occurring? I’ve uploaded a .zip with the FLA, however please note that it will not play on your computer due to some browser cache prevention measures I had to include. You can download the .zip here.
The second problem I’m having is actually a structural problem with the FLA/XML interaction and loading.
How the site works:
- When you click on a gallery name in the menu, in Flash it navigates to a frame where the slideshow instance for that particular gallery is.
- It then imports the .SWF slideshow for that particular gallery. The images, descriptions, and titles are loaded through the XML file associated with that slideshow.
The problem is that when you load a gallery, lets say Portraits of India, and you decide you don’t really like it and load another gallery, the browser still downloads the pictures from the previous galleries you clicked on. So what ends up happening is, although unlikely, if someone were to click on all of the slideshows in succession quickly, the browser continues to load all of the slideshows regardless of which one you’re viewing. This is a problem because the more galleries you view the load time gets longer for each picture. Would there be any type of ActionScript that could stop the loading of the previous slideshow?
Anyone have an idea how to fix either one of these problems? I’m thinking the first one is something to do with either the AS or the way the sites structured.
