Re: Writing a function for navigating a site: re-use and r 2004-04-16 - By Muzak
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Hi Marisa,
If it was up to me, I'd rethink the structure and avoid using scenes.
An easy transition from scenes to no-scenes could be to copy/paste the content
of each scene in a new keyframe in the first scene.
So, each scene becomes a new frame in the first scene and you'd give each frame
a label, the same as it used to be in the multiple
scene setup.
That way you still have the same kind of setup but all within one scene and you
can now use the same navigation idea you had in
mind. So you'd have the navigation in the first frame, stretched across the
timeline, covering all the other frames (hope that makes
sense).
If you completly want to step away from timeline based applications, then yes,
loading content or making content visible when needed
is the way to go.
regards,
Muzak
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From: "marisa_antonaya" <mantonaya@(protected)>
To: <FLASHmacromedia@(protected)>
Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 7:01 AM
Subject: [FLASHmacromedia] Re: Writing a function for navigating a site: re-use
and re-structure?
> Hmmm, I tried replying to this yesterday, but the post didn't go through, so
here goes
> again.
>
> Thanks for the valuable advice, I think I see where I went wrong, and also
that I may
> be headed towards an inflexible design for this site. I have it set up in
scenes, but
> because there are common elements to all the pages (navigation, logo, icons),
I was
> worried about the file size, which is why I was hoping to cut down on the
amount of
> script through a function that could be called from each scene.
>
> But now I'm wondering if I shouldn't rethink the structure, since I see the
potential
> problems with scenes. Right now, the site is small (one-level clicking), but
it will grow
> and I'll need to add pages. In this case, should I create a navigation swf,
and load the
> other pages (the content) into this main movie? Or should I work within a
single scene
> and make a layer for each separate page, having them appear on the timeline as
> needed?
>
> Thank you again!
>
> Marisa
>
>
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