Making Flash Buttons work with frames -help! 1

[pa902]

Ok I'm doing a simple site with Frames in dreamweaver -the frame to the left is named leftframe where i have five flash buttons within a table. The main frame is named -mainframe. Now I can put a simple html link in leftframe and use the target=&quot;mainframe&quot; to get the document to open in the mainframe like i want. But I am having problems with the Flash buttons. I added the on release action to the button and the get url and it worked fine- but in the window part where you have the option of _blank, _self etc. I figures I could just put the target=&quot;mainframe&quot; but its not working. The new page keeps loading in a new window. How do I get it to open in the mainframe? I even tried adding no action to the buttons and using the regular <a href> tags before and after the object tags and god knows why the link won't work. I tried the href before the <TD> tag and that didnt work. Why cant i use simple html to make my flash buttons links? But I'd really like to know how to get the document to open in the correct frame through the actions in Flash. I really need an answer quick -i hope someone can help-thanks

 

[oldnewbie]

Look at this:

http://members.lamicro.com/~FGill/help/main.html

...Is that what you're looking for?
If so, email me a request at francoisgill@hotmail.com

...I'll send you the zip file that holds everything you need!

;-) &quot;If nothing else, I can always serve as a bad example!”

 

[blended]

I will have an example of this exact issue up and running in about 2 days time. Stay tuned. I finally got it all worked out. Good luck in the meantime!

Blended

 

[davdesign]

Sounds like you're doing everything right, and Old's zip is what your after. My only suggestion would be to check the source code of your main page and check that the frame names are the same as your flash movie references.

dave dave@davdesign.co.uk

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[andinhopeicry]

Hello all who have questions on getting Flash to work with frames in Dreamweaver. Dreamweaver names the main frame of the site &quot;mainFrame&quot;. Note the capitalization of the F. I tried it many ways using the commands in flash. It should look like this when using dreamweaver (unless you selected a different name for the main frame using the code option).

getURL (&quot;

http://www.uwm.edu/~gyration/shows.htm&quot;,

&quot;mainFrame&quot;

Hope this helps. I never found the answer in the thread but it led me in the right direction.

 

[davdesign]

Email notification? WOW, haven't had that since 1982! Hi Old, Carl, et al. And wasn't this answer given 21 months ago? Jeez, time flies!

davdesign@hotmail.com
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