forwardtrends — Mon, 11 Aug 2003 02:00:57 +0000

or just do this..

make each section a different .swf file.

make a black (empty) movie clip on your main (nav) stage (Positioned in the top left corner of where you want your sections loaded) - name it loader.

put an action on each button like so (changing the name of "yoursection.swf" to the name of the section file for each corresponding button)..

---

on (release) {
unloadMovie("loader");
loadMovie("yoursection.swf", "loader");
}

---

bang your done - quick and painless - no need for extensive frameage.
make sure the sction file is exactly the size you want it (use masking and preloader to make it clean)

Megan — Sat, 09 Aug 2003 01:28:00 +0000

There could be a better way of doing this, but this is what I did:

This is in the button, setting a variable (in this case "samples") for the script to use later on. goto being the name of the variable.

on (release) {
    goto = "samples";
    gotoAndPlay (205);
}

Then this is in the last frame of the scene (since it goes to frame 205 and plays to the end)

if (goto == "websites") {
	gotoAndPlay ("websites", 1);
} else if (goto == "samples") {
	gotoAndPlay ("samples", 1);
} else if (goto == "about") {
	gotoAndPlay ("about", 1);
} else if (goto == "resume") {
	gotoAndPlay ("resume",1);
} else if (goto == "home") {
	gotoAndPlay ("main page", 1);
}

That's it! Pretty simple. Oh, and be careful if you put your navbar in a symbol - you'll need to go _root or _parent (forget exactly) to go up to the main level before sending it to the next scene.

ianrules — Fri, 08 Aug 2003 15:12:49 +0000

that is exactly what im talking about....
*waits*

Megan — Fri, 08 Aug 2003 13:43:01 +0000

This is excactly how the navbar on my flash site works, if I understand what you're talking about. What it does is when the user clicks on a button, it plays a section in the current scene and then goes to another scene based on which button was clicked (if you look at it that's how the wipe in/wipe out works). I'll have to wait until I'm home to check the code for that, but I think it just sets a variable and then in the last frame it says got to and play (variable).

JeevesBond — Fri, 08 Aug 2003 09:44:51 +0000

Although I haven't done any Flash for ages I believe this is possible. Although it's a little easier than the method you've described...Unfortunately I'm at my day job right now so can't go in to Flash and check, I'll have a look tonight if I get time