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amclean123
08-05-2003, 04:35 PM
Ok, my last post worked like magic - fixed my problem instantly, so here are a couple other questions...

1. I have a button that loads a movie - this movie works as a navigation menu for additional movies. My problem is I need this navigation movie to stick around after it has played so users can continue to navigate....

I used the action:
on (release) {
unloadMovieNum(1);
loadMovieNum("boards.swf", 1);
}

2. I created this page 800x600, but when I publish the file it is aligned left with like 10-12 pixel margins. What my intentions were was to have this page be a pop-up 800x600 with no margins - I have checked in the publishing settings and can't figure out how to change this and also I have no idea how to do the whole pop up thing (I tried a couple tutorials with no luck).

I'd rather not post the file on the forum (sensitive client), but I will be happy to email it to anyone who can help me....

Thanks so much
sandman9
08-05-2003, 04:42 PM
I think you can be helped without posting the .fla but your question is hard to understand.

When you say it works as a navigation for additional movies then are these additional movies located in the movie that's being loaded? Or is it being loaded into this movie? or is it located on the main timeline of the main movie? etc etc

Also for me personally, it's hard to understand what you mean by

My problem is I need this navigation movie to stick around after it has played


More details would be of help if possible :)

Sandman9
dzy2566
08-05-2003, 04:46 PM
1) If you are constantly loading swfs into the same level, you don't need the unload movie, unless you want no movie to be loaded on that level. Flash will automatically replace the movie loaded into a level with the movie you are loading into it.

As far as it sticking around, you need a stop(); at the end of if and you don't want anything unloading it. So if you can get away with just loading movies in place of others, you won't accidentally unload it.

2) This will get you started on fitting the flash movie exaclty into the popUp. You want to have your <body> tag look like this <body leftmargin="0" rightmargin="0" topmargin="0" bottommargin="0"> Just make sure your window is the exact size as your movie and you should be good.

Any more questions, shout. I'll try and help and I'm sure someone else will have some other, probably better :D input.
amclean123
08-05-2003, 04:48 PM
Ok,
ummmm....forgive me cuz I am totally new at this

you can goto www.484wake.com/index2.html to view (I just uploaded to test a version)

if you click on 'boards' you will see the boards pop up along the bottom, but when you click on the boards that movie dissapears and the next plays - I would like for all the boards (the first movie) to stay along the bottom of the page....

does this help?

-alex
sandman9
08-05-2003, 04:54 PM
what's the script you placed on the boards then? (just want to know so i can see if your problem has to do with a time line issue or a loading issue, etc)

Sandman9
amclean123
08-05-2003, 05:09 PM
same script as prev mentioned.... do i need to delete the unload movie portion?
Ms.Latte
08-05-2003, 10:14 PM
You could just have one "main" file that has one frame that loads the initial swf into level 2, and your navigation bar (a separate swf) load above that (with of course has the script to load another swf into level 2 depending on what's being pressed.). Very simple (and a bit crude) but thought that this would kinda help to organize everything.

I saw your test example and i hope this helps.

:)