flash header always load?

[ztempuser]

? ?

[theodonnells]

Just put in a duplicate style one with flash header and one without, users can choose which one they want..

[ztempuser]

thats what im gonna do but i was wondering if i don't have to do another style if i can just make some option in the user cp where they can pick the header they want without changeing the whole style, cuz im always doing changes to the style and i have just 1

[Ntfu2]

Couldnt you make two movies. One that is animated for the main page. then the second one that isnt

add a if statement something like?

<if condition="THIS_SCRIPT == 'index'">
Place first flash code here <else /> Place second flash code here, you know the one that doesnt move as much </if>

[ztempuser]

thats what i will do instead lets just keep it simple.
it will come down to this
i have a portal page and forum, portal is the page u get when u got to the site so i will put that code ntfu2 gave in the portal page, (will have music and preloader) then anyother page will just get a basic flash with no preloader and no music.
thanks everyone for all your help i will tell u how it comes out cuz im not gonna do it now im sleepy

im sorry for the dumb question but does that go in the php script or the portal template? if its the php script how would i do that, cuz the vbadvanced portal index.php page is just some sort of template caller

Originally Posted by Ntfu2

Couldnt you make two movies. One that is animated for the main page. then the second one that isnt

add a if statement something like?

<if condition="THIS_SCRIPT == 'index'">
Place first flash code here <else /> Place second flash code here, you know the one that doesnt move as much </if>

[Princeton]

A "loader" should only appear when the flash file is not cached in the user's system. Once it's cached the "loader" is skipped.

If your Flash file "loads" each time ... you have a badly written "loader".

You will need to edit your Flash file so that it doesn't "load" each time the file is called.

essentially, a flash file checks if (number of frames exist) to display or not display "loader"...

if (not loaded)
{
goto frame 0
}

OR

if (frame10 is loaded)
{
//skip the loader
goto frame 10
}

the above is not the code to use ... it's just giving you a direction to look into
all loaders are different but, the above is pretty much the basics

[Kirk Y]

Originally Posted by blackwidow

thats what i will do instead lets just keep it simple.

it will come down to this

i have a portal page and forum, portal is the page u get when u got to the site so i will put that code ntfu2 gave in the portal page, (will have music and preloader) then anyother page will just get a basic flash with no preloader and no music.

thanks everyone for all your help i will tell u how it comes out cuz im not gonna do it now im sleepy



im sorry for the dumb question but does that go in the php script or the portal template? if its the php script how would i do that, cuz the vbadvanced portal index.php page is just some sort of template caller

No, you use it in a template. Assuming you've got the flash header in your header template, you'd use it there.

<if condition="THIS_SCRIPT == 'adv_index'">Flash Code for Portal</if>
<if condition="THIS_SCRIPT == 'index'">Flash Code for Index</if>
<if condition="THIS_SCRIPT != 'adv_index' OR THIS_SCRIPT != 'index'">Flash Code for anything besides Index or Portal</if>

[blowndeadline]

You can generate a cookie from flash that once it loads, it won't load again for that user.

visitCheck = sharedObject.getLocal("cookieCrumb");
if (visitCheck.data.beenHere == true){
this.gotoAndPlay("begin"); //this should go to wherever your movie starts after the intro
} else {
visitCheck = sharedObject.getLocal("cookieCrumb");
visitCheck.data.beenHere = true;
visitCheck.flush();
}

Something to that effect should wor.