Page-to-page Navigation States

[zornfett]

Greetings.
Can anyone suggest a method/technique for making the navigation (linked below) remain in any of the six main states ['education', 'conservation', 'recycled water', 'desalination', 'comm outreach', 'public information'], dependent on whatever page is viewed?

http://www.zornfett.com/client/digis...4/left_nav.swf

e.g. Under 'Education', when 'Water Facts And Info..' is clicked, the left-side nav should remain with the dark-blue 'Education' submenu open - as opposed to the SWF navigation resetting itself.

http://www.zornfett.com/client/digis...ter_facts.html

thanx much!

[MajorTom]

You can control flash from HTML. In Dreamweaver it is under Behaviors. You just tell it what frame number you want the flash movie to go to. At least that is how I do it...maybe there is a better way?

[oldnewbie]

Neither links work for me!

[zornfett]

sorry to waste your time - was moving files around - here are the fixed links:

http://www.zornfett.com/client/digis...4/left_nav.swf

http://www.zornfett.com/client/digis...ter_facts.html

Thanx sincerely for the suggestions!

[oldnewbie]

Would be easier if you were just using a frameset, then navigation would stay put.
Otherwise you'll have to pass variables along with your getURL's, and have some first frame actionscript on your navigation .swf, to set it in the state it was left at in the previous page.

Would have to see your navigation .fla, to be able to better help you out.

[zornfett]

Here is the source:

http://www.zornfett.com/client/digisyn/leftNAV_v7rb.fla

Hmmm ...for that matter, I don't understand what page object/text I select in Dreamweaver to make the 'Control Flash Movies' behavior available.

cheers, ZF

[MajorTom]

Like this?

http://www.yellowseven.com/test/test1.htm

[zornfett]

yayuh - just like that, thank you. (looks good on PC - but it appears Mac users [on Safari/IE] are outta luck). Did you use the DW 'control swf' technique?

[MajorTom]

yes

[zornfett]

hmmm ...this page seems to suggest that Macs are generally doomed when it comes to supporting these kinds of commands:

http://www.macromedia.com/support/fl...ort_matrix.htm

I just so happens I'm contracting for a house that uses Macintoshers and I doubt they'd let this go out the door without the nav supporting the browser/OS.

Thanx for the hand-holding, y'all.

[oldnewbie]

So maybe try with a _global variable set on the nav button presses, _global variable then checked out within the nav menu itself to re-set it to it's last state upon entry of a new page.

That should work on Mac, although I can't confirm it.

[zornfett]

This technique wouldn't require any additional scripting in the HTML page it's (the SWF) embedded in then, ja?

[MajorTom]

works on all the macs here at our office.

[zornfett]

they put me on an eMac here and I wasn't able to get your [MajTom] example to work on NS 7.1 or Safari... or IE 5.2 (NOTE: works on PC however)

[zornfett]

You mentioned the implementation you have at:

http://www.yellowseven.com/test/test1.htm

worked on Macs around your office. I'm having difficulty doing this )as well as on PC IE.6). I there an upgrade you can recommend to OS or browsers to make this happen (on Macs in partic.)? Also, could I be overlooking an edit you made to the SWF? thanx

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[MajorTom]

I am on a PC with IE6 and it works great.

[zornfett]

thanks for the reassurance!
can you imagine a browser setting that IE6 PC users might have molested/not activated to prevent this from occuring?

Could it be an OLD Flash Player issue?

[MajorTom]

I'm not sure but we have done this this way since Flash5. Our webserver tells us our sites are hit with IE browsers 95% of the time and this is acceptible for our clients.