Flash Site Design - Movie Layers

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Movie Layers

Dream_Abstract

2004-03-31, 5:29 am

Hi

I'm working on an interactive site map which loads as a new flash movie over
the main flash .swf however, when i load up the site map movie on top of the
main .swf, the buttons underneath on the main flash menu and page are still
active, is there a way of disabling these?

You can view the site by clicking on the link below and then selecting sitemap
from the menu and clicking on the load button to load the sitemap.

Another problem I have noticed is that the cursor effect with the gun target
seems to lag very slightly, I have tried raising the frame rate to 24 fps which
has improved it slightly, is there anything else i can do to improve this?

I'll send the .fla if desired...

cheers

[L=view flash site here]http://www.dream-abstract.com/nrg[/L]

Flow Media

2004-03-31, 8:29 am

Hello Dream Abstract.

It is possible to disable the buttons underneath your site map. I did it with
a dynamic textfield in the sitemap swf. Place the layer with the textfield in
the lowest layer of the sitemap.swf. Make sure the dynamic textfiels is as big
as your site map. This way all links underneath will be disabled.

Furhermore, an option such as a sitemap is usually an option to see how the
structure of your site is. So you can easily hop from one part to another.

Good luck with the map.

Frank Borsboom
[L=Flow Media]http://www.flow-media.nl[/L]

kO2n

2004-03-31, 9:29 am

Hi,

Alternatively you could use actionscript;

myButton.enabled = false;

makes the button visible but nothing happens when the user click on it. You
could set up a function thats called when load a new MC over the top that will
disable the buttons underneath and then run it again when you want them in use.
If you need help with that let me know.

Regards,
Viru.