Few Newbie Questions

[Horizynn]

OK I have 3 issues I cant work out on my own, I've only been using flash about a week or so and have learned most of what i know about it from the built in tuts, messing around, and 2 websites (this one and flashkit).

There are 3 problems I cant seem to figure out on my own.

1st problem - I have a button that I will assign an action to (Its a sound on and off button, however I havent added sounds to my site yet, so for now I just want it to toggle the on / off image, I have 2 pictures on top of each other, and when the button is clicked, picture one will no longer be visible, and picture 2 will then become visible, and vice versa when the button is clicked again... I pasted this code in the button, which I came to find out is wrong... lol... but I gave it the good ol college try...

on (release) {
if (Off_alpha==100) {
return On_alpha=100;
return Off_alpha=0;
} else {
return On_alpha=0;
return Off_alpha=100;
}
}

That code, after screwing around with AS, seemed logical to me, but Flash didnt think so...Any help here would be great.

2nd Problem - I setup the chromeless window from the tutorial provided here, and there are 2 things I'd like to do to it if possible...

Make a Flash Button that will close the window, and have a Minimize button along side the close 'x' at the top

Sorry for so many questions in one thread, I pretty much did all I could without help now I'm trying to get rid of all my problems =).

Thanks in advance for all help provided

Can view what I've done so far at www.sierrafalls.net (the first page is very generic just to initialize the javascript window) .. none of the links work yet, I do web design but never used flash til now, figured it was time to update =p

[pom]

You could use that to make the effect, but there's a much better way. Anyway, here's the correct code (assuming that you gave the instance names On and Off to your clips)
on (release) {
if (Off._alpha==100) {
On._alpha=100;
Off._alpha=0;
} else {
On._alpha=0;
Off._alpha=100;
}
}Or better
on (release) {
On._visible=!On._visible;
Off._visible=!Off._visible;
}The main problem with your code is that you missed the dot syntax. And return isn't used in Flash, except if you want a function to return a value to be used somewhere else.

But as I said, there's a better way to do that : create a movie clip with 2 frames in it with 1 picture in each frame, and make your button gotoAndPlay the corresponding frame. Doing so, you won't have to deal with _visible, which is good politics, since it's CPU consuming.

pom :asian:

[Horizynn]

thanks a lot for the advice =) i guess i made that just a little bit harder than it needed to me =) Now if i can get the other two probs solved i'll be in business.

[jsk]

If you know your javaScript this is the handiest way to manipulate browser characteristics:

getURL ("javascript:window.close()");

However you'll need to spawn the window using javascript or eles you'll get a "The web page you are viewing is trying to close this window" alert in IE