Thanks Guys,

I have been playing around with it a lot and have actually created her Flash intro. It looks pretty good ( I think), considering my lack of experience.

The link question is primarily due to the Flash Banner I intend to use for her site. The Site Link Buttons will be on the Banner and will have to change as each section of the site is entered.

The reason I asked about Shared Libraries is the Banner has a fairly large bitmap as the background. Once it is loaded only the link titles and url’s will change from one page to the next. The idea was not to reload the whole banner each time someone changed pages.

The book does mention shared libraries as a separate file on the server which contains various components a number of movies may contain.
When a movie is downloaded, the browser can download and cache the shared library so new movies can pull from it instead of downloading the same elements over and over again. But the book did not go into very much detail at all.

I realize that the button titles and links will be changed on the banner with Dynamic text linking to an external text file.

My problem is it seems that each page will need a unique banner name so you can program the individual buttons to a different text file. But if I was going to do all that, and the banner had to be downloaded each time anyway, it seems I might as well just create a new banner with different buttons and links for each page.

This site already has around fifty pages so this is not a small problem I am dealing with.


I still have 300 pages left of the Flash MX Bible and it is now dealing solely with action script. But it has not even hinted at how to do this. In fact, the whole book has devoted maybe five pages to links and nothing about updating them dynamically.
Maybe it will be in the last 300 pages.

The biggest problem with a book is it can not tell you “ Read This” to get a particular thing done. All you can do is read it cover to cover and hope you get an understanding along the way.

If it does not explain it, I guess I will go buy another book.