Master and (FS)Commander, The Far Side of the World

[jack sparrow]

Sorry about the silly title

I've been going through the help and forums and have finally started coming to grips with Flash/AMS interaction. Neat! However, I am wondering if the following is possible:

1) Can I set up a button that pulses or emits radio waves, etc. when the mouse is run over it? I'm looking for a Flash-type effect here, not an AMS command to jump to a page, etc. Can you load a .swf file onto another one for this effect, or is that too complex to play smoothly?

2) It seems that you can't have transparency on, for example, a round button in an exported .swf file and that it must come into AMS with a black background. To get good-looking effects on buttons, do you have to design the whole (or a big part of) page in Flash? Is anybody doing this? Are the files too big to use in AMS or are there any other drawbacks?

Sorry for the short novel...

The possibilities seem really interesting for using .swf files in AMS and I'd like to know to what extent you can practically take them. I'm going to try the things I mentioned now but my lack of Flash skills is equalled only by my lack of AMS scripting skills. So the going may be slow... If anyone who has experience could throw a few tips this way, it'd be cool. Thanks!

[Corey]

Hi.

1. Yes you can do #1 but this would be done by creating the button in Flash and then using it in AMS as a Flash object. This means that transparency is an issue, however some people such as rhosk have figured out ways to stack transparent Flash atop form elements (by manipulating the Z-order using CSS) when served in a web browser object. So there are workarounds.

2. See above plus try out a search here in the forums for Flash transparency if you have a few minutes, there's quite a few posts around which describe a variety of workarounds, etc.

Hope that helps.

[jack sparrow]

Hi,

Okay thanks Corey. I'll search for info on those workarounds.

[longedge]

You could do it in a clunky sort of way within AMS like this example -

[jack sparrow]

Hi,

Sorry about not replying sooner Longedge... I've been away from the PC for a while.Thanks for the example file. I'll take a look at it.