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From: hellogarrett on 22 Apr 2008 15:05
Hi.
I'm new to Action Script and to Flash CS3.
I've successfully created a SWF file fading in texts and images etc.
However, I've searched a lot of literature and can't find a brief overview of
how to construct a navigational web site.
Example:
A menu with four or five items.
Clicking on an item causes a different movie to play.
It seems to me that I need to create, say, five movie - each the size of the
stage.
On a seoarate layer I need the menu (itself another SWF file?) which decides
which movie to play.
I'm well able to do this sort of stuff in C#, Microsoft Visual Web Developer,
and even in older versions of Dreamwever but I'm at a loss here/

All I'm looking for really is an overview - bout one paragraph should do it!

Regards,

Garrett

From: Bob Pierce on 22 Apr 2008 16:45
There are so many answers! Take a look at the Language Ref for MovieClip.play
method. This gives the example of a button causing a movieclip to play. So
multiple buttons can play multiple mcs. You can author the mcs on separate
layers in one .fla, in which case everything compiles to one .swf, or you can
author each movie as a separate .fla and use the MovieClip.attachMovie method
to load its .swf into your main movie. Or...



From: hellogarrett on 22 Apr 2008 17:11
Hi Bob, thanks for your answer.
What I have now is a set of small movies (movie1.swf, .. movie3.swf) inported
onto different layers.
Three buttons on another layer - these are button symbols with nice colour
changes on up,over,down etc.
I have shifted the three movies so they start at Frame 2.
At keyframe 1 for each movie I've added the action: stop();
In my actions layer I've defined 3 functions startMovie1()..3(), and added a
listen event (for mouse click) to each button, caqlling the associated
function. What startMovie1() does is gotoandstart(2) for movie1 and
gotoandstop(1) for the other two movies.
When I test the movie, I get no compiler errors, but clicking on a button does
nothing (apart from colour changes).
Any ideas? (have I given you enough info), and is this a valid way to go about
things?
Regards,
Garrett

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