Easy Inner Popups in Flash CS4 & CS5 – Part 1
Learn how to create inner popups using the UILoader component in Flash CS4. (This procedure is nearly identical in CS5.) Load any external SWF as a popup. Create as many popups as you need. Part 1 and Part 2 walk you through the entire process, from configuring the component to creating a close button movie clip, to scripting the popup. Part 1 covers preparing and setting up the UILoader component.
Best Viewed in HD Format.
Learn this and other techniques in William Harrel’s Introduction to Adobe Flash CS4, (and soon to be released Introduction to Adobe Flash CS5) Course at Ed2Go.
Click here to download popups.fla.
William Harrel – williamharrel.com
Glad to be of service
Thanks for the tutorial! It works great! I do have one question:
I want my pop up window to pop up a streaming video. However, when I use the “close button,” the pop up closes, but the streaming video keeps playing (can hear the audio.) Is there code that could be added to the “close button” that would also command the streaming video in the pop up to stop playback?
Thanks in advance for your help!
Hmmm… I hadn’t really anticipated putting a video in the popup. There probably is code that will stop the video. But I don’t know what it is. I know that
SoundMixer.stopAll();
will stop sounds. Place it directly below the gotoAndPlay() action.
Thanks! That seems to have worked!
Glad to hear it.