[gray]

forget flashkit (too messy) use http://www.actionscript.org/tutorials.shtml who provide nice, easy to understand tutorials.

[tomson]

i reccommend their simple pre-loader.


oh yes indeedy

[flatcat]

ditto

[chips]

I've found this site pretty useful..really clear tutorials
http://www.kirupa.com/

[stoavio]

Thanks a lot. Both very useful links .

[oli]

Right, after a about a year of saying im gonna learn flash Ive finally got round to sorting the basics out, and as there seems to be so many flash gurus here lately I thought I'd ask for a bit more help.
I can do the basic stuff like animations etc but I want to start building a full site in flash, and havent been able to find any decent info on how to do it. I can create an interface and the first page and make it all load nicely but how do you create the extra content pages and link to them ?

Any help appreciated, ta,

[JiRaffe]

if you want it all to be in one self-contained movie then just put the different content pages into separate keyframes with STOP actions on each frame. then on any of your buttons you just put

on(release){
gotoAndPlay(3);
}

you probably already understand this but all you are basically doing is creating a linear animation, but are controlling which parts of the animation a user is seeing at any one time, by jumping backwards and forwards.

[sleepingfish]

It sometimes helps to load in external movies as different sections though, especially in terms of content management, and it makes is easy to load different sections, rather than the entire site at once.

[JiRaffe]

i agree. especially if each page has images on. depends how big a site it is.

[oli]

right, cheers that helps a lot. Someone should put up a tutorial for creating sites in flash.

[Stickman]

Originally Posted by sleepingfish

It sometimes helps to load in external movies as different sections though, especially in terms of content management, and it makes is easy to load different sections, rather than the entire site at once.

http://www.sitepoint.com/print/fast-track-flash-site

[tomson]

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/full_site.htm

[oli]

cheers

[mark]

Originally Posted by oli

I can do the basic stuff like animations etc but I want to start building a full site in flash, and havent been able to find any decent info on how to do it. I can create an interface and the first page and make it all load nicely but how do you create the extra content pages and link to them ?

That sitepoint tutorial looks pretty good and going modular an loading external .swf's is definitely the way to go.

Once you've gotten an understanding of that it's a short step in figuring out how to get all the main movie movieclips and external swf's talking to each other & from there you can accomplish pretty much anything...flash is so versatile it's unreal, and as some other folks have pointed out it's very likely going to show up across all sorts of devices such as digital tv/pda's/phones/appliances etc. so definitely worth taking the time to learn it.

[flatcat]

Yeah, I heard Audi or some other really high-end car manufacturer is using flash for it's dashboard displays in the coming years

[tomson]

Soon there will be no real world, just a flash-based illusion of reality.

apparently

[Bill Posters]

Does that mean the world will inexplicably run slow and juddery for mac users?

darn!

[Stickman]

Learn SVG. It's the future.

[Mr Fred]

canny wait for my alpha tween jacket.

Bit of welsh for you -

"Who's coat is that jacket"

[Bill Posters]

Alpha tween undies. Now there's a bankable idea.