HELP ME>>>PLEASE... Viper, are you out there...?

[eyedea]

Hi everybody...

I've been struggling with this all day , haven't quite given up yet - but I'm hoping that one of you experts out there might be able to give me a push in the right direction..
If you can spare a script idiot like me a minute..?!?

Just started working on this site for a music promotion company and I've got a few ideas - but the one that would suit the whole thing best.... I can't figure out whether it is possible... must be, but how..?

I'd like to set up the site as a frame set, loading the content into the main frame - using a flash menu as navigation bar... but how could I target the main frame on my dreamweaver page from inside Flash???
I'm using FlashMX and saw the options for window in AS panel.. but just can't get it to work...

Viper - if you're around and read this... (you helped me with my chromless, centered pop up recently Still happy and so grateful )
Am right in thinking that the solution for this one along the same lines...? Using JavaScript in the main frameset, or actually in the menu html page (?) - then setting up the AS on the buttons accordingly...?
Not sure how to solve it but it would help if I knew whether I'm thinking in the right direction here...

Well, sorry to go so long, thinking out loud and hoping you guys understand what I mean...

Thanks for listening... hoping for a little light
Prisca

[sn0wn1nj4]

this is a potential solution:
(depending on the complexity of the site)
Using JavaScript in the menu html page - then setting up the AS on the buttons accordingly.

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try this

write out all the functions / pages you need these btns to operate.

if they are all HTML pages or flash movies, it's possible to create the entire navigation completely within flash, without having to call JS functions.

assign the urls and target the frames from flash using
getURL("/whatever.html", "contentFrame");

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good luck.

-R.

[eyedea]

snOwn, thanks for that
Don't have the time rigt now - but I'l give it a go tomorrow.... THANKS
Prisca

[eyedea]

snOwn.... I'm back again...

Thanks for your tip - but I'm just useless at the script side of things... just about coping with the basic AS in Flash, never mind html or Java... I manage to use scripts and understand them enough to apply them, so to say... - love the creative side of all this but my ideas would require a lot more knowledge on that front...

I've given it a go using the books I've got and trying to get lucky by guessing more or less... no luck

Do you know of any good resources for this on the net, by any chance...?

Anyway, on the search for the script now......
Thanks again, Prisca

[eyedea]

YES, I've got it.... just thought I should let you now....
and you wouldn't believe how I got it to work......

In the head tag of the left frame page, ie the html containing the flash buttons, add this and all the button will target the same frame:
(this in combination with snOwn's "getURL("/whatever.html", "contentFrame");" on the flash button itself (within Flash))

<BASE TARGET="mainFrame">
(providing the frame to load the content is called 'mainframe' obviously)

See ya!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Happy flashin'
Prisca