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SimpleMenu Known Issues

SimpleMenu Disappears

There following are a few of the main reasons why SimpleMenu disappears.

Pop-up Windows

By default, SimpleMenu wants to hide itself in pop-up windows. This is a feature.

The reason is that many websites will open pop-up windows for all kinds of extra-features such as uploading an image or printing some description of an image or the definition of a word or product.

These windows should not include the SimpleMenu bar.

There is a dedicated page giving several different ways to fix this problem on your website.

Menu Overflow

Long menu going out of screen vertically and horizontally.Very long menus will disappear on the

Set Target (dynamic)

SWF Action
Action Category: 
Movie
Action Details: 
(dynamic)
Action Identifier: 
32
Action Structure: 
<n.a.>
Action Length: 
0 byte(s)
Action Stack: 
pop 1 (s)
Action Operation: 
s1 := pop();
set_target(s1);
Action Flash Version: 
3
See Also: 
Call Method
DefineSprite
Get Member
Set Member
Set Target

Pop one string from the stack. If the string is the empty string, then the next actions apply to the main movie. Otherwise it is the name of a Sprite1 and the followings actions apply to that Sprite only.

  • 1. Note that the name of a sprite is specified in the PlaceObject2 tag so as to be able to include the same DefineSprite tag multiple times and still be able to distinguish each instance.

With

SWF Action
Action Category: 
Control
Action Details: 
0
Action Identifier: 
148
Action Structure: 
unsigned short   f_size;
Action Length: 
2 byte(s)
Action Stack: 
pop 1 (o)
Action Operation: 
with o1
  // execute f_size bytes of actions
  ...
end with;
Action Flash Version: 
5
See Also: 
Set Target
Set Target (dynamic)

The variable references within the following f_size bytes of action are taken as names of members of the specified object o1. When no member of that name is available in that object, the previous With, or the corresponding global variable is queried. This is similar to the Pascal language with instruction or to the Set Target (dynamic) for movies.

Wait For Frame (dynamic)

SWF Action
Action Category: 
Movie
Action Details: 
(dynamic)
Action Identifier: 
141
Action Structure: 
unsigned char    f_skip;
Action Length: 
1 byte(s)
Action Stack: 
pop 1 (a)
Action Operation: 
a1 := pop();
if(_root.get_frame() >= a1) {
  // execute f_skip bytes of instructions
  ...
}
else {
  // ignore f_skip bytes of instructions
  pc += f_skip;
}
Action Flash Version: 
4
See Also: 
Branch Always
Branch If True
Goto Expression
Wait For Frame

Pop a value or a string used as the frame number or name to wait for. The frame can be specified as with the Goto Expression. If the frame was not reached yet, skip the following f_skip actions.

WARNING

Set Target

SWF Action
Action Category: 
Movie
Action Details: 
(dynamic)
Action Identifier: 
139
Action Structure: 
string   f_target;
Action Length: 
-1 byte(s)
Action Stack: 
n.a.
Action Operation: 
set_target(f_target);
Action Flash Version: 
1
See Also: 
Call Method
DefineSprite
Get Member
Set Member
Set Target (dynamic)

If the string f_target is the empty string, then the next actions apply to the main movie.

Otherwise it is the name of a Sprite and the followings actions apply to that Sprite only.

In order to use a dynamic name for the target, use Set Target (dynamic) instead.

Goto Frame

SWF Action
Action Category: 
Movie
Action Details: 
0
Action Identifier: 
129
Action Structure: 
unsigned short   f_frame_no;
Action Length: 
2 byte(s)
Action Stack: 
n.a.
Action Operation: 
goto(f_frame_no);
Action Flash Version: 
1
See Also: 
Goto Expression
Goto Label
Next Frame
Play
Previous Frame
Stop

The playback continues at the specified frame. Frame numbers start at 0 and go up to to total number of frames - 1.

A frame appears at each new Show Frame tag.

For a goto frame with a dynamic frame number, use the Goto Expression action instead.

Get URL2

SWF Action
Action Category: 
Movie
Action Details: 
0
Action Identifier: 
154
Action Structure: 
unsigned char    f_method;
Action Length: 
1 byte(s)
Action Stack: 
pop 2 (s)
Action Operation: 
s1 := pop();
s2 := pop();
s1.load(s2, f_method);
Action Flash Version: 
4
See Also: 
Duplicate Sprite
Get URL
FSCommand2

Pop two strings, the URL (s2) and the target name (s1).

All the usual HTML target names seem to be supported (_top, _blank, <frame name>, etc.) You can also use the special internal names _level0 to _level10. _level0 is the current movie. Other levels, I'm still not too sure how these can be used.

Get URL

SWF Action
Action Category: 
Movie
Action Details: 
0
Action Identifier: 
131
Action Structure: 
string   f_url;
string   f_target;
Action Length: 
-1 byte(s)
Action Stack: 
n.a.
Action Operation: 
f_target.load(f_url);
Action Flash Version: 
1
See Also: 
Duplicate Sprite
FSCommand2
Get URL2

Load the specified URL in the specified target window.

When the target is set as "_level0", the current SWF file is replaced by the file specified in the f_url field. The name in the f_url field should be a proper SWF file or the area will simply become black.

When the target is set as "_level1", something special is supposed to happen. I still don't know what it is...
Also the effect of _level1 + an empty URL is ... (to remove level1?)

Delete

SWF Action
Action Category: 
Variables
Action Details: 
0
Action Identifier: 
58
Action Structure: 
<n.a.>
Action Length: 
0 byte(s)
Action Stack: 
pop 1 (s), pop 2 (o), push 1 (b)
Action Operation: 
s1 := pop();
o2 := pop();  // undefined or _root or _global for global variables
r := delete(s1, o2);
push(r);
Action Flash Version: 
5
See Also: 
Declare Object
Delete All
Set Member
Set Property

Pop one string representing the name of the property to be deleted. Then pop the object from which the property is to be deleted.

In version 5 through 8, it is necessary to Push Data type undefined (0x03)1 before the string as in:

96 04 00 03 00 'a' 00 3A
delete("a");

to delete a global variable.

  • 1. Since player version 9, deleting a dynamic (global) variable requires _root (or _global) instead of undefined.

SetTabIndex

Tag Info
Tag Number: 
66
Tag Type: 
Define
Tag Flash Version: 
7
Brief Description: 

Define the order index so the player knows where to go next when the Tab key is pressed by the user.

Tag Structure: 
struct swf_settabindex {
	swf_tag			f_tag;		/* 66 */
	unsigned short		f_depth;
	unsigned short		f_tab_index;
};

This tag defines the tab index of any text object (static and dynamic text objects.)

The depth references the object which is assigned the tab index. The tab index defines the order in which objects are sorted to know where to go next when the tab key is pressed.