Frames....simple subject yeah...or is it!

[Drazzakia]

well its not simple..i think,
because i'm not talking about the animation frames - but frames as in html pages...

well the actual question i have is, how can i insert a inline frame to a flash mx document. i'm sure it's possible because the site www.tombraider.com is an all flash site.. butit has seperate pages flash

please help!:p

[Sualdam]

You can't embed HTML in Flash - the nearest you can get is a handful of supported HTML tags that are useful for formatting text.

Using HTML frames is not always the best idea because some browsers can't handle them, and they're a pain - even crude(IMO) anyway.

You can have Flash in separate frames, but it is complicated to get the movies to talk to each other.

You can easily have Flash navigation and load any kind of page into other frames or IFrames - including other Flash movies.

Targeting IFrames is the same as for normal frames.

Macromedia link here: http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/get_url.htm

[Drazzakia]

are okay...thx for that -

BUT, in that tomb raider site there is the logo going between the two frames and because of this i thought that the whole thing was a flash document with a layer above the Iframe..

so um how would this have been done with three horizonal frames?

soz i'm new too flash(more of a photoshop person) -


and the what you call anti-microsoft jerks do know what they have against microsoft! lol
i'm one of them -

[Sualdam]

Whereabouts on that site is the logo you are talking about? Which section?

And they DON'T know why they dislike MS - they just do. None of the claims against MS are proven, but anti-MS nerds have convinced themselves they are ;) Let's not go into that here - you aren't going to change your mind, and I'm right anyway, so we aren't going to get anywhere :cool:

[Drazzakia]

http://www.eidosinteractive.co.uk/gss/trangel/home.html

top right corner (LARA CROFT TOMB RAIDER THE ANGEL OF DARKNESS)

[Sualdam]

That's a local file...

Can you direct me on the site to the section you were thinking of?

If you want to post a link it has to be online somewhere - the IMG tags don't upload it for you.

[Drazzakia]

lol..i know now
i only joined today.. but i've edited it to a link-

[Sualdam]

Sorry to be an idiot...

Top right is a register button and a PRESS button...

Are you talking about those scroll windows that keep opening up in various sections - some have graphics in them?

[Drazzakia]

lmao..soz i'm so stupid
i was looking around trying to figure out what you was going on about

soz i mean't the top LEFT corner(not an animated button)

[Sualdam]

OK.

Well, you didn't answer my question but I assume you ARE talking about the window that opens with text in it and a scrollbar.

That's not HTML - it is a scrollpane component.

If you look in the components inspector under Flash UI Components you'll find it there. You just drag and drop it on to your movie, though it will take a bit of experimenting to get it to actually work.

I don't think there's a tutorial on this site. This thread may help:

http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?s=&threadid=21835

And it has been discussed in a lot more, so have a look around.

[Drazzakia]

the graphic at the top left corner saying (lara croft tomb raider the angel of darkness) a link button

[Sualdam]

I'm sorry, but you've lost me completely.

Yes I can see the button.

When I click it a scrollpane opens up. It has some stuff dated July 3rd about the game being in stores.

What now? What do you want to do?

[Adrenaline]

you want to have a "frame" around a graphic which when you click anywhere on the "frame" it will do something?
i with Sualdam, i'm a bit lost

[Drazzakia]

ok i've attached an image file -
i'm wondering how that logo can be between the two frames

lol

[Adrenaline]

lol, thats for that picture for us stupid people.
ok, what type of frames are you talking about? frames in flash's timeline?

[Sualdam]

It isn't in frames.

It is one whole Flash movie.

What you have labelled Frame 2 is a scrollpane that is part of the movie.

Frame 1 is just a section at the top of the movie and the logo is in it (with an invisible button, by the looks).

Frame 3 is just a section at the bottom.

[Adrenaline]

o, i see. Sualdam is right.

[Drazzakia]

cool thanks
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so whats a scrollpane?
lol
<<<< stupid

[Sualdam]

Read my earlier post with the link.

[Drazzakia]

wait isn't a scrollpain just for text?

[Sualdam]

Read several of my earlier posts, and the one with the link.

(In short, no - it isn't. That's the whole point). ;)

[Drazzakia]

i have re-edited the image for you

i have a feeling that because i put the words (frame 2) in the box you thought thats the only place i meant it to be

actually its divided by the red lines

[Sualdam]

It doesn't contain frames.

Period.

[Drazzakia]

yes but the area frame 2 that i've marked can't all be a scrollpane because a scrollpane can only take txt

lol

[Sualdam]

Read my earlier posts and look at the link (and search for more on this site).

Drag a scrollpane on to a movie and look at the icon for the scrollpane in the Component Inspector window. Doesn't that suggest images might be involved?

Why would there be a scrollpane and a scrollbar if they both only handled text?

Scrollpanes display MOVIE CLIPS and not text boxes.

Look here:

http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/action_scripts/actionscript_dictionary/actionscript_dictionary318.html

That site does not contain frames.

[Adrenaline]

this is FLASH!!! there are no frames! listen to Sualdam, they know what they're talking about

[Drazzakia]

i'll try and re-explain...

[Adrenaline]

1st of all, there is only 1 .swf (Flash Movie). now that .swf can load another .swf into the current movie using
myMovieClip.loadMovie("url of .swf" [,variables])
but I don't thing thats what they are doing. It many look like its loading seperatly, because Flash is telling it to do that effect.

[Drazzakia]

myMovieClip.loadMovie("url of .swf" [,variables])
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this interests me!

[Adrenaline]

if you search the forums i'm sure you find more info on that.