[thelist] Flash Frame Recognition

Erik

When I put the tages you provided I got the menu at 10% for some odd 
reason. Did I blow the syntax somewhere?

http://www.nweinc.net/testbays/bay7/propelmenu.html

Ross


>In your html, you can define a variable on the main timeline by 
>appending a name/value pair to the URL of the swf:
>
><PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="propelmenu.swf?initialframe=10">
>
>and
>
><EMBED src="propelmenu.swf?initialframe=10">
>
>This will create a variable in the top level of the movie named 
>"initialframe" with a value of 10.
>
>Then in the first frame of the main timeline, have an actionscript 
>send the MC to the correct frame.
>
>Flash looks for variables relative to the instance being targeted, 
>you need to do it as explained in this technote:
>
>http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/flash_labels_scripting.htm
>
>But if you're just sending the main timeline to a specific frame you 
>can just have a goto action to initialframe defined as an 
>expression, and don't have to figure out the technote (which would 
>be a lot easier to do if one could download FLAs of the examples!)
>
>At 01:11 PM 6/19/00 -0500, you wrote:
>>Eric,
>>
>>Could you give a bit more directive on this part
>>
>>then in your movie, tell the timeline to goto gotoframe defined as 
>>an expression. If you are targeting a mc like this, you have to 
>>reference the variable from the root of the movie, like
>>
>>tell target('"yourMC")
>>         goto and stop "yourMC" & /:gotoframe
>>
>>I set up a test to go to frame 10 here...
>>
>>http://www.nweinc.net/testbays/bay7/propelmenuframe10test.html
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>Look for fscommand in the help files.
>>>
>>>Or, if you are targeting Flash 4 only, you can send a message to 
>>>the swf as a url parameter: <embed src="movie.swf?gotoframe=8">
>>>then in your movie, tell the timeline to goto gotoframe defined as 
>>>an expression. If you are targeting a mc like this, you have to 
>>>reference the variable from the root of the movie, like
>>>
>>>tell target('"yourMC")
>>>         goto and stop "yourMC" & /:gotoframe
>>>
>>>>If we are using a Flash menu on an HTML page is there a way to 
>>>>start the Flash movie on a specific frame. We're wanting the 
>>>>Flash movie to signify what HTML page were on by displaying the 
>>>>path to the page as dictated in the flash movie
>>>
>>>
>>>
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