Flash Site Design - browser navigation for Flash web site

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browser navigation for Flash web site

jackcee

2005-10-21, 6:25 pm

I've created a Flash web site using MX2004. Each page is a seperate swf page.
The navigations within my site works fine, however, if I try going back and
forward using the browsers buttons, it doesn't work. The script I use to call
each page out is:
on (release){
_root.loadMovie("mymovie.swf", root);
}
Do I need to call out the html page instead of calling for the swf page?
Thanks

CanonBoy

2005-10-21, 6:25 pm

From what I understand, you can't use the browser's back button to navigate
within a swf. Even if you're calling five different pages (5 different swfs)
from your code above, you're reloading into the same main swf each time.

There are specifics that might be addressed with the history state possibly,
but you could also set up a frame so that your navigation is always in one area
and you're loading the new swf's into the frame which would provide the
difference to Flash.