drop down menu and f hybrid problem

**magnetos** · 06-16-2003, 09:32 PM

hi guys i have never tried to make an hybrid site before and i am having some problem makeing a drop down flash menu working on a html page
what i want to do is to put the drop down menu on the top of the page while on the bottom i have other html stuff

also the dropdown menus will have at least 10 buttons each
is there an easy and organized way of making this work?
i am using dreamweaver for di html editing

can anybody help examples/flas/tuts/ anything

thanks in advance for your help guys

**gparis** · 06-17-2003, 12:10 AM

one simple way would be to have a frameset. topFrame holds the flash and buttons use getURL("anypage.html", "mainFrame") in the.. mainFrame.
Make sure to name your frames..

gparis

**magnetos** · 06-17-2003, 04:34 PM

Originally posted by gparis
one simple way would be to have a frameset. topFrame holds the flash and buttons use getURL("anypage.html", "mainFrame") in the.. mainFrame.
Make sure to name your frames..

gparis

thanks gparis

the frameset idea is a good idea i ll try that

but there is another problem see if i make the flash menu 800 x 200
for example, when i port the swf onto the html page the swf shrinks its waaay to small why is that?

on the other hand if i make a 550x500 the sfw fits well but i dont need so much empty space for the menu buttons is there a work around or am i missing something?

any ideas??
thanks again

**gparis** · 06-17-2003, 11:21 PM

Here's a frameset example with a top row set a 200. Make sur to publish the topFrame where the swf is with top margin at 0.

<html>
<head>
<title>Your title goes here</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>
<frameset rows="200,*" frameborder="NO" border="0" framespacing="0">
<frame name="topFrame" scrolling="NO" noresize src="topframe.html" >
<frame name="mainFrame" src="mainframe.html">
</frameset>
<noframes>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
</body>
</noframes>
</html>

gparis

**FlashInnovation** · 06-18-2003, 06:07 AM

<divs> work better!

use absolute positions... set z-depth to 1 and youre golden.

HTH

**FlashInnovation** · 06-18-2003, 06:13 AM

oh, the reason why <divs> work better....

Code:

<div id="Nav" style="position:absolute; left:30%; top:110; width:675; height:400; z-index:1">
    <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0" width="675" height="400">
      <param name="movie" value="Flash/Nav.swf">
      <param name="quality" value="high">
	  <param name="WMODE" value="TRANSPARENT">
      <embed src="Flash/Nav.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="675" height="400"></embed></object>
</div>

This makes it so your flash is transparent and the menu's will overlay on the top of your content.

**magnetos** · 06-18-2003, 04:46 PM

thank you guys ill try both methods and see what I come up with
I am still struggling with dreamweaver though ....
thanks again

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