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cewise321

2005-08-18, 7:44 pm

I want to take buttons (images I created) and have them drift across the page
and into place on a dreamweaver website. How can I do this? I know how to make
the animation in flash but how can I make it occur once (instead of looping)
and act as a layer over top of the existing webpage and have the buttons stay
in place to be useable? I can paste a flash movie into an area of my dreamweave
page where it keeps looping, but how can I have it act once and have it stop
and show the buttons on the site? HELP!!

Demon paW

2005-08-19, 7:30 pm

we cant really understand what you want to explain are you trying to make the
flash movie(the swf file) move around the html(asp or whatever) page and go
into place? As far as i know you cant do that with flash or html maybe you will
need other script formats to achieve this. You can only control components in
the flash movie but not the flash movie itself with actionscript(as far as i
know).

cewise321

2005-08-22, 7:22 pm

I know it sounded complicated. All I want to do is learn how to make my webpage
entrance to be a flash media. So when you load the page, the buttons glide
accross the page into place. Thats it. I'm new at this stuff, so bare with me!
Any help on doing this would be most appreciated!

Demon paW

2005-08-22, 7:22 pm

well make a file large enough (in scale) to suite your webpage and use
animation tweening to set your buttons in motion. Use the flash help you get
when you install flash to no how to use animation tweening that will be enough.

Hudey

2005-08-22, 7:22 pm

To get your flash movie to play once you have to add a "stop();" command to it.

Open the FLA and add a new layer on the timeline. I usually make it the
topmost layer and call it "Actions". On this layer add a blank keyframe at the
same frame as the last frame of your animation. Select that frame, go to the
Actions window, and put in:

stop();

This will tell your movie to stop right there and it will not loop back to the
first frame.

If each of your buttons is its own symbol, even after the main animations
stops you will still be able to have mouseover animations and things that will
still play.

HTH

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