Controlling Main Movie Timeline Via A Movie Clip
hi all,
i need some help figuring this out. i created a bunch of frame labels for my main movie timeline to layout the sections of my website (i.e., "home", "news","gallery", etc.). now, i am able to "jump" to the different sections of the site when i clicked on the buttons that i have on the main movie. for example, i assigned the the following codes to the "news" button to go to that section:
on (release) {
gotoAndStop("news");
}
here's the problem: i have also created a short animated movie clip at the beginning of the main movie timeline that, once the animation is done playing, a button appears that allows user to click and enter the site. with the same line of code above assigned to the button (with the "news" word changed to "home" for home page), when clicked, it only goes back to the beginning of the animation instead of the home page section?!
please help! thank you!
michael
FlashKit > Flash Help > Flash ActionScript
Posted on: 03-01-2003, 11:56 PM
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