INDISPENSABLE FULLY DYNAMIC NAV W/ COOL BLUR EFFECT

c00ki3,

I might make an XML version if there is a demand for it. Would be pretty easy to create since everything is dynamic. From a workflow standpoint, for me it’s just easier to add an item to an array then to have to open up a XML file. Like to add an item you would just add it directly to the array:

var navNames:Array = new Array(“Home”, “About”, “New Section”;

Pretty simple.

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sirdna,

Open up the dynamic_nav.as file and look at line 93. Typically to navigate to a section I would call a function named navigate from the onRelease event handler and pass its parent’s “n” value like shown below:

navigate(this._parent.n);

Its “n” value comes from its place within the array. “Home” would be 0. “Selected Work” would be 1, etc.

Then create a navigate function which accepts the “n” value as a parameter. From there the function can navigate to whatever section based on the “n” value. It really depends on how your site is setup but hopefully that helps.

Simplified example here

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c00ki3, apotts76, jleecloak1 , & sirdna, Did you guys try reading and following the instructions in my original post to sirdna above? It should be fairly straight forward. Look at the code again here:

http://pastie.caboo.se/196514

Just replace the home_mc._visible = true part with gotoAndPlay(“home” if you want to go to a frame label. Use loadMovie(“home.swf” to load a swf, use getURL to load a url, etc. The nav is fully functional you just need to add the code to give it the specific functionality you want. Some people will want to use loadMovie, some will want to use getURL, some will want to go to and play a frame, some will want to just call another function which handles the loading of sections and transitions. It just depends on how you set up your site and what you want it to do.

Just follow the if/else statement structure for the rest of your buttons. In plain English it is just saying if it’s button 1 do this, else if it is button 2 do this, else if it is button 3 do this… Just follow that for all of your buttons.

If you are still having difficulties let me know specifically what isn’t working or what you don’t understand and I’ll try to help.

Cheers.

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sirdna,

Glad you got it working.

To make the nav selected on a separate page you will have to pass in the section number on the new page into the Flash movie as a query string. In your embed code in the HTML you will need to do something like this:

dynamic_nav.swf?sectionNumber=1

If you aren’t familiar with query strings check the following link

Link

Then you will need to change the following code at the very bottom of the dynamic_nav.as file:

greyOut(0) to greyOut(sectionNumber)

Basically the greyOut function sets the number of the section you pass to it as selected. By default it always sets the first section as selected. If you pass the sectionNumber to it from the query string it will make that section the selected one. So on the embed code of each HTML page just pass in the corresponding sectionNumber.

Hope that helps.

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vicealliance,

If you have it inside another movie clip you should be able to just use _parent to reference the main timeline. Try _parent.gotoAndPlay or _parent._parent.gotoAndPlay depending on how far you have the clip nested inside the main timeline.

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shingooo,

If you follow the instructions I gave to Sirdna it should work.

The query string shouldn’t effect how your links work at all. Maybe you can post me some of your code so I can get a better idea of the problem…

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shingoo,

Just got your message and replied. Looks like you might have just made a simple typo (sectionNumber not SectionNumber). Hopefully that will fix the problem. Let me know if it works.

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nakalimutank10,

Yes that is possible. Just put the nav on top of the background you want and you can just apply a dropshadow in Flash to the whole movie clip. And obviously you’ll want to change the colors of the nav to make it legible with your image. But yeah it’s definitely doable. If you have trouble getting it working let me know.

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