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"Flash 5 help please"

ok, i'm making a flash website, I don't want to have to use urls, well, just one - the website domain.

anyway, i've made all the pages, but......how do I make it in one movie clip???? I want to be able to use it offline if you know what I mean, so i can click on a button and it takes the user to another page????

Fogmaster wrote:
> I thought it would be something like that, but I:
> A) need the action scripts,
> B) need to find out how to get them to work, i'm looking
> for some tuts now :D

Ahhaaa. OK. Now I get you.

1) Select the button you want to have an effect.
2) Make sure it is a "symbol" by clicking on the "Insert" menu, if you can click the heading "convert to symbol" then do so, (if not, go to step 3) you will then need to specify it as a button symbol.
3) Got to the Actions pallette and select Basic Actions, click "Go To" then specify a frame number to Go TO... check out all the other actions whilst you are there just to get familiar with them

Hope that helps. I think somebody had a good idea to have each page as a seperate mini-movie, all imported into one big movie, which you then export as a big movie.

http://www.2advanced.com like this, but obviously much better, the url doesn't change but if you click on the links the page changes, but it's not anywhere near as nice as mine.

huh? i'm so proud of this website, don't know why, it didn't take too long, but it's my first....are you saying you'd do it for me?

If you want, I'm sure I could add the right effect to each button.

Mr. Nice Guy wrote:
You need to access the Actions panel in order to make the buttons have the right
> affect for them to go to the right scene.

I thought it would be something like that, but I:

A) need the action scripts,
B) need to find out how to get them to work, i'm looking for some tuts now :D

You just need to get what you've made onScreen and copy it into the frames. You need to access the Actions panel in order to make the buttons have the right affect for them to go to the right scene.

Brio wrote:
transfer them all into one flash file and then just link the pages
> using the markers - when you export it it'll be a single movie.

that sounds about right, thankyou, i'll have a look for markers n stuff on some tutorial sites, I just had no idea what to look for.

thankyou all for your help.

it's not html, infact sadly theres no html on these pages, just flash5, at the moment there are about 20 buttons on each page some simple pictures and some text, no animation, is there a way that I can link all these .swf files into one file?

sorry.....I have about 20 pages all in .swf I want to be able to put them on a cd maybe as one file, then link all the pages together like a website, i know this can be done, i've seen some tutorials on flashkit where you click on a button and the .swf file changes but the rest of the page stays still.

Fogmaster wrote:
anyway, i've made all the pages, but......how do I make
> it in one movie clip???? I want to be able to use it offline if you know what I
> mean, so i can click on a button and it takes the user to another page????

i assume you've made each page in it's own flash movie. your best bet is to transfer them all into one flash file and then just link the pages using the markers - when you export it it'll be a single movie. (sorry i cant be more specific but i'm out of practice with flash)

no, I want one file to be my whole website, one page is all on one 'frame' or one line of layers so no animation, I want to click on the news button and then it moves to frame 2 the downloads page to move to page 3, you get me? I don't want to upload it click on a button and make the user download a page again when all the info already online it would take too long also this way it makes the website useable offline which is kinda the idea.