Flash Site Design - probably a simple question about using a flash header

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probably a simple question about using a flash header

fotogii

2007-03-08, 10:15 pm

What would be the best way to go about loading this flash navigation?

http://www.marcos-ac.com/wip/

Basically my issue is that I don't want the animation to run through each
time. On the homepage, I want it to run through it's whole animation, but after
that, I just want everything to be up there... not flying in and fading in on
each of the pages in the site.

My ideas:
1. Some sort of actionscript command that says "if you are on a page named
index.htm then play the entire movie, otherwise, goto and play frame 100 (the
last frame).
2. Use a shell movie and do a loadMovie that they jumps to a frame. Insert the
shell movie on the subpages in the site. I tried this an it didn't work. And
I've read that it's unreliable because the label may not exist yet when the
movie is called or something. Must be cached.
3. Build 2 movies... one with all the intro animation frames chopped off. I
tried this and didn't like it as the movie is already pretty huge and to load
two movies that are large is annoying to users. This is the method I am
currently using.

Thanks for the help!

Jubliana

2007-03-11, 7:17 pm

The quick and easy way - not necessarily the most elegant way - to solve the
problem is to use html frames. Put the nav in a header frame and have contents
display in a second frame underneath. Will require you add a
target="contentframe' (or whatever you name the content frame) parameter into
each link in the nav flash, but other than that you won't need to make major
changes.

The nav plays once and just sits there until they reload the entire page the
next time they visit. No actionscript, tests, preloading, etc required.