User guide mcnavigationcontrol
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This document provides information about the MC Navigation Control component for Flash, including: - It allows developers to create navigation controls like seek bars for Flash movies. - It can control playback, bookmarking, skipping between labeled frames. - The component is available from ESSPL and comes with support and commercial licensing options.
User guide mcnavigationcontrol
- 1. User Guide: MC Navigation Control ® Component for Flash
- 2. Developed by : Enterprise System Solutions Pvt. Ltd. (ESSPL) Infocity, Bhubaneswar, India – 751024 www.esspl.com Component Author: Samir K. Dash, Systems Consultant, ESSPL Component Page URL : http://www.esspl.com/FlashComponents/mcnavhome.asp © 2006 Support Information For support information/ feedback mail to : ess@esspl.com License Agreement for swfSequencer swfSequencer is distributed by Enterprise System solutions Pvt. Ltd. (ESSPL) as is without any warranties whatsoever. By using this Flash component you accept the fact that ESSPL will not be liable for any damage it may cause. This product is free to be used by anyone for noncommercial usage, without a written reference provided by ESSPL (www.esspl.com). Though no fee is charged for the commercial license of this product , the developer/ firm using this product for any commercial use must get a written reference from ESSPL beforehand. To get the commercial license , please send a mail to ess@esspl.com with the following details: Company Name: ____________________ Company Address: __________________ Period of Usage: ____________________ Disclaimer: ® Flash® is the registered trademark of Adobe Systems INC. All content/ information presented here is the exclusive property of Enterprise system solutions Pvt. Ltd. (ESSPL). The copyrights of trade marks/ logos of any other organizations/ companies/ vendors are under their respective copyright holders and are in no way linked to ESSPL or any of its subsidiaries. The content/ information contained here is correct at the time of its publishing. No material from here may be copied, modified, reproduced, republished, uploaded, transmitted, posted or distributed in any form without prior written permission from ESSPL. Introduction ® MC Navigation Control 4 is a Component for Flash which helps Flash developers and Flash content authors to create flash movies with complete control over their flash movie navigation. MC Navigation Control 4 helps you to create a seek bar for your flash movies with Bookmark capabilities and full navigational control. After installation, just drag it onto the stage of your movie and the rest will done by this component. Using this component you can drag the seek bar to reach at any particular frame of your movie, you can play and pause it or even skip to the next
- 3. labeled frame. Also you can control audio level of your movie. Using this component the user can "Bookmark" any frame of the Flash movie at any particular time and can reach it at any point of time, using "Save Bookmark" and "Go to Bookmark" buttons even when he/she re-launches the flash movie. Method of Installation To install MC Navigation Control 4 you need to have Extension Manager . . Macromedia Extension manager is a free product and is available with the installation of Flash. Alternatively you can download Extension Manager from www.adobe.com UI Access : After installation, MC Navigation Control 4 is available in Components Panel of Flash IDE under ESSPLComponents folder. i) Descriptions of Parameters mcName This parameter represents the movie clip of your Flash movie which should be controlled by MC Navigation Control. The default value of this parameter is “_root”. If the default value is not altered, then the MC Navigation Control controls the _root timeline of the flash movie. If you have a movie clip which you want to be controlled by MC Navigation Control then you can give its instance name in this parameter. For example if you want to control a movie clip on stage with the instance name “myClip” then you must set the value of “mcName” to “myClip”
- 4. labelPositions This parameter represents an array of the frame label positions in your movie clip. If you want the user of your Flash movie to be able to skip to any specific label positions of your movie clip, then you can do it by providing the frame numbers of those labels in this parameter. If you do not specify any label position in this parameter, then the Skip to Next and Previous label buttons disappear.
- 5. Please note that while specifying the label positions you must specify the first frame number (i.e. 1) of your movie clip as the first element , for convenient skipping between the labels. color This parameter changes the skin color of the MC Navigation Control to any of the 5 predefined different colors. These colors are: Sky Blue (default color) Champak Yellow
- 6. Frog Green Coal Black Cherry Red ii Other Features Play and Pause buttons These two buttons help you to play or pause the loaded swf movies. Volume Control button Clicking the Volume Control button, displays a volume controller slider, using which the user can adjust the volume of the flash movie at any point of time while playing the movie.
- 7. Save Bookmark and Go to Bookmark buttons Using these two buttons user of your flash movie can book mark any frame of any the movie clip and can go to this frame at any point of time even after they close and reopen the flash movie at any point of time. On the rollover of the Go to Bookmark button, the details of the last time a bookmark is saved is displayed in the seek bar area. Previous and Next buttons These two buttons help to load the next and previous swfs of the currently playing swf respectively. Seek Bar This helps to move between any frames of the existing playing movie clip. By dragging the seekbar you can reach any particular frame of the movie clip. While dragging, you can see the percentage of the completion of the movie Further Reference: For further reference you may contact at any of the following e-mail addresses:
- 8. For support information / commercial usage license : ess@esspl.com Feedback / suggestions for enhancements can also be mailed to: ess@esspl.com Related links: At Adobe’s Flash Exchange: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?view=sn111&extID=1031892#loc=en_us&view=sn1 11&extID=1031892&viewName=Flash%20Extension&avm=1 About ESSPL ESSPL offers a wide range of e-learning, m-Learning and interactive solutions, from animation, interface design, multimedia assessment need analysis, customized courseware design, simulations, interactive kiosks, online design solutions, Flash based mobile content designing and development, to suit the wide range of client needs ranging from e-learning, m-learning to sales promotional campaign and presentation needs. For more details on ESSPL’s offerings in e-Learning and interactive design, refer to ESSPL website at www.esspl.com