Flash with frames

[hat]

How do i get flash to work with frames?
Flash 5 has only _top,_parent,_self and _blank none of which enable me to open a page in the frame next to the flash url

 

[TulsaJeff]

you should be able to just type in the frame name. someone correct me if I am mistaken...but I believe if you were trying to target a frame named main then you would simply specify mainFrame instead of _blank , _top, etc.

yourframename+Frame Ya' Gotta Love It!

 

[hat]

It doesn't seem to work i've tried that already

 

[hat]

It doesn't seem to act to anything. It just automatically responds to a command as _blank

 

[hat]

Do u know of any sites that would beable to help me with this problem?

 

[hat]

Doesn't anyone know???

 

[PetitPal]

Tghe other option, of course, is to simply rename your main frame as _main. You do this in the page where you define your frames; just simply add the name tag to the html:

i.e.:

<frame name=&quot;_main&quot; ....

=)

PetitPal

 

[PetitPal]

Sorry for the second post, but I just checked one of my movies that uses frames and all you need to do is either put a variable name in the window bit (e.g.: my_target) or put the actual frame name in quotes (e.g.: &quot;_my_main_frame&quot.

I think the way I did it in my movie was to keep all the frame names in a text file, load this on entry to the movie and then just reference the variables in the 'url' and 'window' bit; this means if the layout of the site changes / frame names etc then you don't have to republish the movie; just change the text file.

Hope this is useful.

=)

PetitPal.

 

[hat]

This doesn't seem to work either flash can't seem to detect the _main function

 

[PetitPal]

As far as I know, all you need to do is, on the getURL thing, put the name of the page (e.g.: my_page) and then un-check the expression box, so that it appears in quotes in the actionscript, then put the target (e.g.: _main) and then un-check the expression box.

The script will look like this:

getURL( &quot;my_page&quot;, &quot;_main&quot; );

If you try this and it doesn't work, or already have tried it then could you paste (or e-mail me) the html code that sets up your frames and the ActionScript code that you are using?

Ta,

=)

PetitPal.

p.s. My e-mail is petitpal@yahoo.com