Webpage Frames AND Flash Buttons

1

Here is the dilema. I have a Dreamweaver webpage, but want to do a fash nav bar. I use FLASH MX.

I have a page divided into to parts a “topframe” and “bottomframe”

The nav bar will go into the “topframe”
I would like to click on the Flash buttons and then load a webpage into the “bottomframe”

OK – here we go

I know how to script it and all that good stuff… But I can’t get the webpage to load into the “bottomframe”?! I’ve found a couple of ideas but they don’t work. When exporting the SWF file, it says that handler’s are for button instences only! So that means I can’t load the webpage buy using the frame target name in the HTML file - “bottomframe”? Does anyone have a solution or a work arround to this?

Thanks you guys are the best FLASH resource on the NET!

Casey,

2

Are you sure you’re working with flash MX because MX allows you to have event handlers on both movieclips and buttons as well.

To have a flash link in your topframe target the bottom frame, just apply this to your button:

on (release) {
       getURL("blah.html", "framename");
}

Make sure that your frames are named accordingly in your html as well or else the script won’t have anything to target.

3

Perhaps I’m doing this wrong???
I right click on the button “while being in the 1st scene”
Then click on “actions”
Then I add the code…
SAVE THE FILE…
EXPORT IT TO SWF file
And I get that same error again? I am using MX. Is there an update that I’m suppost to get for it?
???

Thanks for the help…

Casey

4

post your fla, let me see what you’re doing, maybe I can figure out why you’re getting that error message.

5

I just ignored the error message and put the text in where you said and it works perfectlly!

Thanks so much for the help!

Thanks again,
Casey

6

haha whatever works I guess, no problem, glad it worked for you. =)