Editing the Flash Header in NotePadThis Flash+html combination template allows you to customize by making small minor changes in Notepad. You can change the Company name, baselines, menu button names. The changes will be affected immediately in the flash template.Here's what you need to do: Open the 'Contents' folder. You will see 2 text files: Changing Company Name Double-click
on 'name.txt'. In this text file you will find '&company=Company Name
&base=Base line here' Note:
"company=" Don't change
the word "company=", it is a variable which is used in the scripting
inside the flash template. Changing button names Open 'buttons.txt'and
replace the text after "=" eg: bb1=About
Us - change the 'About Us' with your own name don't change "bb1="
as this is variable. Repeat with all other buttons. CHANGING THE BUTTON LINKS(URL) IN FLASH MX In order to change the URLs to the buttons you will need basic flash knowledge. Follow the steps below: 1. Open the folder FLA&PSD, in this folder you'll find the .FLA file 2. Open the .FLA file in FLASH MX. 3. You'll find the 'timeline panel' right beside the 'toolbox panel'. See below for illustration: 4. In the timeline panel, you will see various layers such as 'buttons, labels, layer 1, layer 2, etc... Select the layer called 'labels'. Then click on the very first dot, so now a small 'X' icon appears on top of it. See below for illustration: The buttons for the flash header will now disappear in the main stage area. Right-click on the first button with your mouse and select 'actions' from the drop-down. In the actions box (see below) you can click on the page name (get URL (page name.htm);) to change it to your preference for the first button. Repeat the same procedure by right-clicking on each button and then changing the url. Please note for Flash+html template 26 and 27 there are no 'labels' layers to click on. In order to edit the buttons for both these template headers, click on any part of the background of the flash header in the stage area. Now right-click on the first button to select 'actions'. You can now change the URL name in the 'actions box'. 'Save' the flash file. Finally, you need to select from menu 'file > export movie'. The flash file will create a .swf file, save this to the location of the existing .swf file. Overwrite it when prompted. For Flash+html template 26 the .swf file is called 'waqar.swf', it is located in the same path as your html files. For Flash+html template 27 it is called 'header.swf' and is located in the 'images' folder. If you see that the header or button images temporarily change to another text font, then you will need to adjust the text for the buttons, Company Name and slogan manually in Flash MX. Just open the Flash file in MX and select the text tool, click on the Company name, slogan or buttons, change and save the file. Finally, export movie as instructed above. If you have any problems editing the URL's for the Flash header, please contact us. We will do this for you at no cost.
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