creating pop-ups in flash

June 4th, 2004, 10:05 am

Ok so I have yet another problem. I want to create a pop-up window in my flash movie when you click on a certain button. I know how to make something open in another window, but what I want is to edit the size of the window (making it smaller then a normal window) when it comes up. I know you can do this using javascript, but I don't know how to put javascript in flash. Little help.

June 4th, 2004, 10:38 am

zombiecrows wrote:

Ok so I have yet another problem. I want to create a pop-up window in my flash movie when you click on a certain button. I know how to make something open in another window, but what I want is to edit the size of the window (making it smaller then a normal window) when it comes up. I know you can do this using javascript, but I don't know how to put javascript in flash. Little help.

What about using dreamweaver to make a html page where you insert the javascript code and add the flashfile into the html. Dreamweaver is often used to add flash and html/php/java together. I think the java code would be:

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<script language="javascript">
show=1
function minimize(){
  moveBy(2000,2000)
  show=0
}
function reshow(){
  if(show==0){
    moveBy(-2000,-2000)
    show=1
  }
}
</script>

June 4th, 2004, 11:41 am

So how does that let flash know that when you click on the button in the movie to open up a new smaller window?

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June 4th, 2004, 12:31 pm

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second, it is better practice to embed flash files in an html page no
matter what, for better control and presentation. Once you do that, you
can use this to popup from flash very easily.

Place this in the html page between the head tags:

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<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=JavaScript>
function openNewWindow(URLtoOpen, windowName, windowFeatures) {
newWindow=window.open(URLtoOpen, windowName, windowFeatures);
}
</SCRIPT>

then on the button in flash, add this:

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on (release) {
getURL("javascript:openNewWindow('http://www.macromedia.com','thewin','height=400,width=400,toolbar=no,scrollbars=yes') ");
}