Flash - Linking swf, timeline help

[wendzina]

Dear all,
I am a bit of a flash newbie, even though I can use it some of the features I am so stuck with. I am creating a website for my company and I have a few technical issues that I really help someone can help me solve. The website is an architecture one and it's not anything difficult really.

http://www.webcounsellor.co.uk/bba/

look there for an example page.

Problem is, now I've split up the top bit (title bars etc), into one swf and linked in the photo bit at the bottom as a seperate swf. It works, but for some reason, when you go to click one of the small photo thumbnails nothing happens.

Also, can you get the playhead to move backwards through frames, instead of moving back to a given frame? What I mean is, when you click projects, the timeline goes to frame 20 and a little animation moves from the left to the right over the word projects. However if i think click home, I want the animation to move backwards back to frame one, therefore reversing the animation.

Many thanks

Jon

 

[kennethkawamoto]

Clicking on a thumbnail refreshes the main photo - isn't this your intention? (Flash Player 9, Firefox 2, XP SP2)

> can you get the playhead to move backwards through frames

mc.onEnterFrame = function():Void {
this.reversePlay ? this.prevFrame() : this.nextFrame();
};

Then set mc.reversePlay to true/false from anywhere to control the playhead direction. mc has to have "stop()" in frame 1.

Kenneth Kawamoto

http://www.materiaprima.co.uk