Managing Links in Flash Movies with
Dreamweaver
Many Web sites rely heavily on Flash movies, substituting movies for entire pages that would otherwise be
created with HTML. Others take advantage of Flash??™s interactivity in their main navigation buttons. Adding
links to buttons in Flash is easy, but embedding multiple URLs into multiple SWF files can make modifying
a site??™s structure a nightmare, forcing you to re-create every SWF file in your site. Luckily, Dreamweaver
comes to the rescue with link management features that are SWF-savvy.
Dreamweaver extends its link management capabilities to include the links contained in Flash SWF movies.
Edit links within an SWF file manually in the Site Map, or move SWF files in the Site Files view and let
Dreamweaver clean up behind you.
Within the Files panel, you can drag SWF files to new folders just as you would an HTML file. Unless your
Update Links When Moving Files preference is set to Never, Dreamweaver either modifies the links in the
SWF file accordingly or prompts you for permission to do so.
Be careful with the type of links you use??”Flash (or, more accurately, browser playback of
Flash) can??™t handle every type. Absolute URLs are very common in Flash movies because they
can be used in every situation.
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