Topic: inserting flash movie

let me preface this post by saying that i am new to dreamweaver and am using version4, and have only a very basic understanding of code.

i have a full page flash5 movie 795x482 that i want to play first thing when the user comes to my site- it is a full page animation against a white background. after the movie plays once, i'd like to have the flash movie disappear and an html page i created in dreamweaver appear in it's place.

how do i go about doing this- it is not simply inserting the flash movie into my existing hmtl document page because the dw default for insertion is i think at 8x10 pixels but i'd like the flash movie to fill the whole screen going all the way to the edges- my flash movie and html page dimensions are 795x482.

so how do i make the html page appear after the movie plays and how do i position the flash movie so that it goes all the way to the edges of the screen instead of the dw 8x10 default?

thanks.

I've used dw3... but I assume some/most is similar...

I can't think of the name of the certain tool bar I am referring to....
I think it's the 'Property Window'... Use that to set the height, width, and any other necessary properties of the Flash...

In order to get the html page to show when the Flash ends, you'll have to insert some ActionScripting into the last frame of your Flash movie...
You're going to want something like...

getURL("URL",_self/don't send)

-to explain this briefly...
double-click on the keyframe that your movie ends on... the properties come up for that frame...
click on the Actions tab...
click the plus sign...
choose getURL
on the right side of the window, there should be a spot to input text for the URL...
and there should be pull-down choices for "_self" and for "don't send"

_self - loads URL into current movie.
_blank - loads URL into new browser window.
_parent - loads URL into the parent frame of the current frame.
_top - removes current frameset and loads URL into the browser window.

the 'don't send' is a variable...
Don't Send - Does not send variables. Default for opening URLs.
Send using GET - sends a small number of variables that are appended to the URL identified in the URL parameter.
Send using POST - is best used for flash forms and sends the variables separately to the URL. This is best used when dealing with CGI or something similar.

thanks alot taxon,

what you said really makes sense. i really appreciate your explanations. i'm going to try it now.