Return to previously viewed screen

[Imara96]

I created my site entirely in Flash. When a user hits the back button, they leave my site. I would like to 1.) change my Flash settings so the browser's back button will return to the previously viewed screen or 2.) apply actionscript to a back button (that I create) within Flash that will go to the previously viewed screen. The prev (frame) and next (frame) options do not work for me since the frames are out of order.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!

[Webforumz Staff]

There is no way to tie the back button on the browsers toolbar into Flash, so that option is not available.

The other option, of having your own back button within Flash is fairly easy to do. The easiest way would be to use an array of numbers where each number is a frame number. As the user navigates through your site you should enter that frame number into the array. When they want to go back, you simply take the last number from the array, remove it and go to that frame.

Hopefully you have enough Actionscript knowledge to do this, if not, let me know and I should be able to put something together fairly easily for you.

[Imara96]

I had to read that answer twice. I get the concept but have no idea how to translate that into actionscript. Yes, I would love it if you could draft a "simple" code.

Thank you!

[Webforumz Staff]

There is no way to tie the back button on the browsers toolbar into Flash, so that option is not available.

There is actually a way to do this, it's just fairly advanced and ususally involved the use of a hidden frame.

Here's one list of tutorials on it: http://www.flash99good.com/archives/cat_tutorials.html

And another
http://www.actionscripts.org/tutoria...sh/index.shtml

[Webforumz Staff]

That is pretty heavy!

I'll post up an internal Flash version soon.

[Imara96]

Thank you for your comments and links to tutorials. I am not familiar with HTML or java so I could not apply your solution. If you do come across an example using ActionScript, please post it because I think a lot of people would find it very helpful.

Thank you!