Hi! You guys have been so helpful, I’m hoping someone can help me out yet again!
OK, I’m making some new photo galleries for my site. What i have plans of doing is, have the thumbnails of the images be in the flash movie and then when the person clicks on the thumbnail, the big image loads but outside of the flash movie. Basically my HTML layout for this page is a table split into two rows, bottom row has the flash movie and the top row has one of the photo gallery images loaded already. What i want the movie to do, is when they click on the different thumbnails, the main image changes to the appropriate ones accordingly. I tried looking at the Flash in Frames tutorial to see if that would help me out, but it doesnt seem to do the same thing in tables. Does anyone have any ideas as im not really keen on frames? Hope i explained myself well, sometimes im not good at that! Thanks in advance and take care!!
Jen
Place an iframe inside the table row that contains the original image and have your flash movie target that frame.
You can set the width=“100%” and height=“100%” of the iframe and it will fill up the table row completely. So your table code would probably look something like this for example:
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="500">
<tr>
<td>
<iframe src="URL of images page here" frameborder="0" width="100% height="100%">
</td>
<tr>
<td>
<EMBED src="URL of your flash movie here" quality="high" WIDTH="693" HEIGHT="500" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash"
PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash">
</EMBED>
</td>
</table>
Just replace the URL’s and plug in the correct widths and heights to fit your project, hope that helps =)
Yikes now im even more confused! I tried this, and it SEEMS like it will do the trick, but for some odd reason, when i go to test the page, my swf doesnt show up! Its weird cause before the IFRAME idea, it showed up no problem in the table and believe me, i checked, its not accidentally in the IFRAME section, its in its own table row, like you showed in your example, so im a little stumped at the moment! Hoping i can figure it out or if perhaps someone has another idea, but thanks so much for this, its a keeper if i can figure out why this fluke is happening!! Take care!!
Jen
Hi Jen, if it’s possible, could you post a link to that page you’re working on so I can take a look at the html coding to see why it’s not showing up? Or you can place your file in a zip file and post it here so I or maybe someone else could take a look, it would help us help you. =)
Alrighty, please keep in mind this is a major work in progress, i plan to tweak the flash movie as well as page layout, i just wanted to first get the concept of what i was going for working first!
At first i thought maybe it was because in the iframe, i have the src to be an image at the moment instead of a page, but i even tested by putting an existing html page i have in there and the flash movie STILL didnt show up! Any clues/ideas would be greatly appreciated!
Link: hidden page (the flash thumbnail gallery is supposed to be showing up BELOW the image you’ll see but it doesnt for some reason!)
Jen, I looked at your html and it seemed fine to me so I don’t think it’s the html. I noticed in the coding that you have 2 flash movies, one called “newmenu.swf” which is the one on top and the other one called “inaugeral.swf” which is the one that should be at the bottom. Well I went into my internet temporary folder to see if it downloaded and I only saw the top one “newmenu.swf” so are you sure that the bottom movie is in the same directory or folder as the rest of your files? Or if the names are correct?
Thanks in advance and take care!!