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Movie Chokes With Button Across Multiple Scenes
Hi, I'm making a banner for a website and decided to do each 'frame' in its own scene just as it kept things a bit tidier.

There needs to be a clickable area with this code throughout all the scenes...

Code:
on (release) {

if (_level10.linkTag.substr(0,5) == "http:")
getURL(_level10.linkTag,_level10.targetTag);
else
getURL("http://www.zebra-club.com","_blank");

}
It works fine when I have a button with this code on the first scene but as soon as I add it to any of the rest I can't even publish the .swf.

Any ideas?? I've attached the .fla with the issues, to see it working remove all the 'button' layers on the scenes.

Hope someone can help!

Many thanks

Movie Chokes With Button Across Multiple Scenes
Hi, I'm making a banner for a website and decided to do each 'frame' in its own scene just as it kept things a bit tidier.

There needs to be a clickable area with this code throughout all the scenes...

Code:
on (release) {

if (_level10.linkTag.substr(0,5) == "http:")
getURL(_level10.linkTag,_level10.targetTag);
else
getURL("http://www.zebra-club.com","_blank");

}

It works fine when I have a button with this code on the first scene but as soon as I add it to any of the rest I can't even publish the .swf.

Any ideas?? I've attached the .fla with the issues, to see it working remove all the 'button' layers on the scenes.

Hope someone can help! I need to send this today!

Many thanks

MODS: I posted this in the newbies section but no-one has replied so sorry for the duplication!

Stop Sounds Across Multiple Scenes Using One Button
Hi all,

I have a main file with multiple scenes, each of these scenes loads an external swf which has a voice over in it.

Now, each scene has the same sound control button, but what I want to happen is that no matter which scene the button is pressed, it will stop the current sound and when the movie proceeds to the next scene the loaded swf voice over will not play.

Same goes for restarting the sound when the button is pressed again.

Any help would really be appreciated.

Craig

Movie Over Multiple Scenes
Hey all....I have a simple question. How can I make a loaded .SWF movie play over multiple scenes? In other words, I have a main movie, and in that movie I'm loading an outside .SWF movie using the LoadMovie command. How can I make this movie play across multiple scenes without the outside loaded movie restarting itself whenever there is a change in scenes? I'm using this method for the loaded movie:

http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/Ti...-737/index.php

Thanks,

wcX

Multiple Scenes In A Movie Clip.
Hey everyone, thanks for looking here. I need to turn a portion of a website into a movie clip, however, it has two scenes (one for the preloader and one for the actual portion). I had no trouble turning it into a movie clip when it was one scene, but now I'm lost because I can't find any way to add a scene to a mc. Any ideas?
Thanks alot,
-tim

Loaded Movie Across Multiple Scenes
I have already posted about this, but it didn't work very well. What I'm using this external movie loading for is for a scroll window for text. This peticular scroll window requires 4 frames for it to work, so I think the best way to play it over multiple scenes is to put it in a seperate movie and have that movie loaded externally. Well, all went good, and the scroll window appeared with the text. The loaded movie I put on level 10, and I put the scroll text on level 10 as well, so all is good there. But...Whenever I change scenes the loaded movie (The scroll window) RESTARTS itself....Shouldn't this loaded movie play seperatly from the rest of the movie? Anyone have any ideas??? This is really bugging me...

Multiple Movie Preloading - Behind The Scenes
I am putting together a wedding photography gallery and I want to offer little montage photo movies of each wedding for the user to view. For instance:

Sally and Tom
Joe and Cindy
Mike and Becky

Each of these I will load using LoadMovie and they will each be separate swf's loaded into one main menu interface. Since they have a lot of images each swf is about 1 - 1 and a half mb's in size, making the load time a little longer than I want.

So what I want to do is have the main menu show up and then have the swfs preloading in the background while the user is browsing. The user can be looking at "Sally and Tom's" movie while the others are loading. This way when/if they decide to go to "Joe and Cindy" next, there will be no load time at all (or at least shorter). I would like it to be where the user doesn't even know what's going on.

I am just learning actionscript but I know enough to understand when I see the code. Can anyone tell me how best to do this or if it's possible? Any tutorials on it specifically? Or other methods that are better?

Thanks

Tab Order, Multiple Scenes In Movie
My file has two Scenes. A loader Scene and a main Scene. At the end of the Loader scene is a start button that then loads the main scene. Fairly straightforward.

I have added tab orders to each of these scenes, setting it so that only essential items respond to tabs. The Loader Scene tabs perfectly, but the Main scene does not. Once the main scene has loaded, Flash utterly ignores all of my tab order settings and tabs through every element on the page.

However, if I remove the Loader scene, the Main scene tabs perfectly.

If I change the order of the scenes so that the Main scene loads first, and the loader scene just sits in the background. The main Scene tabs perfectly.

If I set it so that the Main Scene has a command on the first frame to jump to the Loading Scene (which is now second in the load order), the main scene tabs perfectly, but the Loader Scene tabs through every element and ignores my tab settings.

Near as I can figure, Flash does not allow for tab settings to exist for any scene beyond the first in the load order. Is this the case, or am I just missing something here? Also, I am setting tab settings using the accessibility panel in CS3.

Controlling Multiple Scenes With A Movie
Hello,
I am trying to make a web site. My flash document has several scenes (A, B, C, D, E). In each scene, I have a movie that contains a drop-down menu with buttons. Let's pretend I am in scene B, and by clicking on the button, I want to go to scene A. This is the code I've been using but it hasn't worked so far:
on(release) {
_root.gotoAndPlay("A", 1);
}

Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

Calling A Movie Clip In Multiple Scenes
Ok i have 5 scenes in my flash project and in each scene there is a movie clip off the stage so you cant see it and a button that calls the movie clip onto the stage with the following code:

on(release){
_root.music_control._x = 700;
_root.music_control._y = 300;
}

the movie clip changes the music playing and the volume of the music but the problem is, if i turn the volume bar down to half in scene one then go to scene 2 and try to turn the volume back up, my volume slider is already on full. this is because i have to put the movie clip into each scene.

is there a way i can call the movie clip when i'm in scene 2 from scene 1?

i don't know if anyone will understand what i'm trying to explain but i tried to explain it as simple as possible.

Flash Movie With Multiple Scenes In A HTML Site.
I have a Flash Movie running at the top of my html site. The flash movie consists of my flash nav that works perfectly. The problem is when i change pages. I want a new scene to play along with the new page...But since ive made the whole thing a single movie with multiple scenes, when it hits a new page with scene i starting...is there a way i can keep the one movie on the one page and have pages changing underneath the movie...and if i change page for the movie to keep playing..instead of stoping and starting again???

Please help.

Rapski

Multiple Scenes Makes Flash Movie Slow
Hello Everyone! i have just joined the forum today and was hoping if i can get some help with my flash problem ....my flash movie becomes slower everytime i add a scene with some basic scripts like gotoAndPlay ie when i hit ctrl enter it takes a very long time to export file...

Here is my problem :-

i am trying to make a website in flash so i have a few scenes like company, occasion, contact us, home etc...on the buttons i want to play a mc which plays on roll over and roll out...till here its all fine..

the problem occurs when i duplicate the scence and call it for eg company and ask the button to gotoAndPlay scene :- company Frame 1 or CompanyStart (frame label)

even with one additional scene the export movie (ctrl+enter) becomes extremely slow...can someone please help me solve this or has anyone had a problem like this before?

p.s this only happens in flash 8, i have done the same thing in an earlier version and all used to work fine....
Thanks

[F8] Flash Site, Multiple Scenes, Button Moves Scene To Scene Instead Of Navigating
Hi...I am very new at flash, so forgive my ignorance in advance...I really really need help!

I created a site, separated into scenes (intro, main-home, about, portfolio, press, contact).

About half the time the navigational buttons work fine. However, the other half of the time one of the buttons, the Press button, instead of bringing me to the Press scene, just moves scene to scene (for example, say I'm on the home page and I want to go to the Press page, it just goes to the about page...I hit the button again it goes to the Portfolio page, etc.). I think the problem lies somewhere in bypassing the intro prematurely (you can skip intro and go straight to the site/home-main scene), but I'm not positive.

Here's the code for the Press button:
on (release) {
gotoAndPlay("press", "pressframe");
}

where pressframe is the name of the first frames in the Press scene.

I can upload the fla file to my own site for download and review if necessary....

Please help!....I am losing sleep and hair over this.

How Do I Use A Button To Switch Scenes In A Movie?
I am trying to switch scenes in a movie but i cannot seem to do it with the GotoAndPlay command. Any ideas? please help!!!!!

Thanx

Sound Button Help? Movie With Three Scenes
I have a movie and a soundbutton_mc on the main timeline that mutes/unmutes the global sound. ( so it is only 2 frames, a toggle basically)

well, my .fla has 3 scenes and this soundbutton_mc is in each scene.
on the main timeline in scene 1 I have:
code: globalVolume = newSound();

the actionscript for my 2 frame soundbutton_mc is:
code: on (release) {
if (_root.globalvolume.getVolume()>0) {
_root.globalvolume.setVolume(0);
this.gotoAndPlay(2);
} else {
_root.globalvolume.setVolume(100);
this.gotoAndPlay(1);
}
}
The problem:
The sound button starts off in the "on" frame( has a graphic that tells the user, sound is on) but if I mute the sound, when I get to the next scene, the sound button goes back to the "on" frame (frame1) but the sound is still muted. I want the movie to know if the user turned the sound on or not and keep the soundbutton_mc displaying the correct frame.

it's not the actual sound that is the problem but which frame of the soundbutton _mc that is shown when jumping between scenes, depending on wether or not the user muted it in a previous scene

AS2 flash 8

please help!

Animated Button In A Movie Not Going To Other Scenes
Hi I'm sort of new to actionscripting.

I have an animated Menu that is inside a movie clip. I have the animation working fine. The problem, if when I try to add an actionscript to the button instance on the stage, it doesn't go to another scene. I have tried getURL and it works fine. I didn't use the default "Scene 1" name I renamed it and still didn't work.

I used:
on (release) {
gotoAndPlay("home",1);
}

This is the link to the file:
http://jupub.com/flash/horizontalani...pdownTony.html

The pulldown menus are on the services and products links.

Thx

Multiple Scenes With "Next" Button Seperators
Hi, I'm making a tutorial for a program, and I'm doing it in Flash. Right now I've got it all in one scene, and I've tried to add in enough duplicate frames so that the user can read the text without it changing on them before they're done.

But then I remembered that I could make something that could have a button like "Next" or something that would take them to the next part...Does anyone know how to do this? Up until now I've been doing all my Flash stuff in one scene, how do I make a "Next" button that they can click when they're ready to move on? And how do I make it go to the right frame number?

Thanks alot!

Button Within Movie Clip Controlling Scenes..
hiya

i have a button within a movie clip and all i want it to do is take me to another scene within the main timeline. sounds easy enough but i can't for the life of me get this to work.

please help.
thanks.

Button Within Movie Clip Controlling Scenes..
Hello !

Well, im here, i looking for a solution, im creating a small page, for project,

I have a button, on this, button i have a Tell Target Action, this one shows up, a Movie Clip, it works, the deal , is there are 5 diferents, buttons, i want each time when you click in any button, clean the previous one and showp up , the the proper Movie Clip,

Every time when i click on the button shows up, the Movie clip, but when i click on the next one, this shows up, the movie clip under the first on,

Please help me Anyone

Waan

Buttons - Changing Scenes From A Button Within A Movie Clip
hi everyone

just wondering if someone can help me sort out a button problem

i want to change scenes by clicking on a button within a movie clip - and at the moment its just going back to the first frame of the clip - its not going to the next scene.....

any help would be great
cheers

"while" Loop Chokes Movie
I'm attempting to create a simple fade from one movie object with a jpg in it to another. It works (although it loops indefinitely) when I call the fading up and down functions from a within a third, without a "while" loop. The fading methods ("increMethod" and "decreMethod") use onEnterFrame to change the alpha of the jpgs. But when I try to limit the fades to within 0 and 100 alpha values, the whole thing stops working. Does anyone have an idea of what's happening?

Here's the relevant code. Sorry about all the "trace"'s:

increment=10;

MapObject.prototype.decreMethod = function() {
this.onEnterFrame = function() {
this._alpha -= increment;
trace (this + " alpha: "+ this._alpha);
updateAfterEvent();
} //end onEnterFrame function
}//end decreMethod()

MapObject.prototype.increMethod = function() {
this.onEnterFrame = function() {
this._alpha += increment;
trace (this + " alpha: "+ this._alpha);
updateAfterEvent();
} //end onEnterFrame function
}//end increMethod()

MapObject.prototype.fadeMethod = function(mc) {
trace("increment equals "+ increment); //working
trace(this + "'s alpha is starting at: " + this._alpha);
trace(mc + "'s alpha is starting at: "+mc._alpha);
//the problem is here: *****************/
while (this._alpha < 100) {
this.increMethod(); //NOT BEING CALLED IN WHILE LOOP
}

while (mc._alpha > 0) {
mc.decreMethod(); //NOT BEING CALLED IN WHILE LOOP
}
//and this is not being called: ***************************/
mapUp=this;
trace ("new mapUp: "+ mapUp);
} // end fadeMethod function

THANKS!!

LoadMove - Multiple SWFs, Multiple Scenes
Hey everyone,
I have multiple swf's, each of which as multiple scenes that must be viewed in sequential order whether the user is traveling forward or backward in the project as a whole. Is it possible to return to a particular scene within a swf using loadMovie?

I have tried this: loadMovie("moviename.swf", framelable); to no avail. The only solution I have found is shuffling the scenes and loading a second swf to the server with the scene I need moved to the beginning of the swf. Is there a better alternative?

Thanks

[CS3] A Question About Using Multiple Scenes Or Multiple Movies...
If I wanted to creat a personal site, with say my BIO, Resume, etc, and I wanted to use a format similar to what 2advanced.com uses. Would it be best to use multiple scenes or multiple .fla documents.

The idea is, that when I have a user click a button, or a menu item or whatever, it takes them to a different section of my site, but I want a seemless transistion between pages.

Does that make sense?

[CS3] Help With Using Multiple Scenes Vs Multiple Movies
Hi,

I wanted to create a personal site using Flash CS3. I wanted to a site with different sections outlining different things (obviously). I wanted the site to behave similar to 2advanced studios' site (2advanced.com)

Does that make sense? Do you guys think it's best to use multiple movies or multiple scenes using this technique?

XML Chokes
Anybody know how to place anchor tags in xml? I'm trying to put anchor tags in my xml, but it keeps choking when flash imports it and makes arrays. Here is what I have tried:
HTML Code:
<portfolio>
<sample id="masterpieceministries.org" proj="mm" pic="mm-1.jpg" totalpics="5" />
<sample id="inthebeginningbook.com" proj="itb" pic="itb-1.jpg" totalpics="3" />
<sample id="thisiswestchicago.org" proj="tiwc" pic="tiwc-1.jpg" totalpics="4" />
<sample id="little-little.com" proj="llc" pic="llc-1.jpg" totalpics="4" />
<sample id="yfinministries.com" proj="yfin" pic="yfin-1.jpg" totalpics="3" />
<sample id="East West Identity" proj="ew" pic="ew-1.jpg" totalpics="2" />
<sample id="RR Browne Identity" proj="rrb" pic="rrb-1.jpg" totalpics="4" />
<sample id="Freddie the Firefly Book" proj="freddie" pic="freddie-1.jpg" totalpics="7" />
<sample id="Huntin' The Truth Logo" proj="huntin" pic="huntin-1.jpg" totalpics="3" />
<sample id="Forever Family Identity" proj="ff" pic="ff-1.jpg" totalpics="1" />

</portfolio>
Both of those don't work, so they are commented out. Here is the actionscript:

Code:
var x:XML = new XML();
x.ignoreWhite = true;
x.load("portfolio.xml");
x.onLoad = function() {
samples = this.firstChild.childNodes;
for (i = 0; i < samples.length; i++) {
names.push(samples[i].attributes.id);
pics.push(samples[i].attributes.pic);
totals.push(samples[i].attributes.totalpics);
proj.push(samples[i].attributes.proj);
//trace(names);
}

Newbie: Key.isDown() Chokes With HTML?
Hi!
Just getting my feet wet in Action Scripting Flash 5 style, I made a simple script attached to a movie that jumps to a new frame of animation when you hit a the down key. Everything works fine when I play the published .swf with my standalone Flash player, but when I try to use my Flash plug-in for Internet Explorer (playing the published HTML page), the keys have no effect on the animation. I made sure that I have the most recent Flash plugin for IE. Am I being a butthead about something? Thanks!
Cheers,
Dave

Compile As Flash 7 And Now Remoting Chokes - Help
I have a large project using flash remoting to .NET that has been working great compiled as Flash 6. If I try to compile as Flash 7 netservices locks the player into an endless loop and then times out as it tries to resolve its first remoting call for .NET.

I verfied I have the the Flash MX 2004 flash remoting components and the first update for ActionScript 1. I also have the latest flash remoting on the server.

Anyone run into this, where Flash 6 works but Flash 7 dies?

When I Put Quotations Marks ", He Chokes
I have in my flash some animation with MCs and dynamic filds, I am pulling some texts from my PARAM in the HTML, and he works normal, but now I got some problems.
The first Product in de PARAM from my HTML I have this (NOVO+Produto+1+")
when I put quotations marks ", he stop de animation from my MCs, it does not bring the outhers texts, he chokes.
I try to put quotations marks ", dynamic text "Character" but nothing.
I have this in my PARAM HTML.

Code:
'barra17?i1=imagemVertical&t=Destaques&n1=NOVO+Produto1+"&n2=Descrição.......'
Somebody knows because it does not appear the quotations marks ", or somebody knows what I have that to do for he works.

Sorry about my English.

Symbols Overlap - Flash Chokes
Hi
For the past weeks i`ve been working on some animations in flash. After i was done with the first one i realised that for some reason the final swf file (about 200kb) was choking when it got to the the part where an object faded out while other object was changing both alpha and position on the layer above. Again .. when it got to that part it was like slowmotion. I didnt give it much thought because i was using the school's computers and i thought its video ram related or something like that.
Today i was animating some rain drops to where they fell and produce waves wich eventualy changed alpha to 0. After randomly placing about 10 drops in a 5 sec animation i noticed it started choking again. It was choking when two symbols that fade out overlap.
Any suggestions?
Thanks guys!

p.s. I'm 100% positive it's not my computer because i rendered a houdini 3d animation in parallel with the swf and the 3d animation was pristine while the swf choked like i had 10Megs of ram.

Flash 8 Chokes On XML From Excel 2003
Using Flash 8's XML object and trying to read in XML created in Excel 2003 I get error -6 back from the XML.status property which means "An XML element was malformed."

If I export the same data in Excel 2002 it loads corectly. Further investigation showed that Excel 2002 exports at the begining this

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<Workbook xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:spreadsheet"

And Excel 2003 exports an extra line at the begining like this

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<?mso-application progid="Excel.Sheet"?>
<Workbook xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:spreadsheet"

If I remove the 2nd line the file works! Any ideas why Flash chokes on this line?

This is an issue as I am building an application for a client who only has Excel 2003!

Thanks for any input on this.

Kevin

Multiple Button & Movie Clips
I have 3 Buttons that control 3 Movie Clips. 1 Button controls only one Movie Clip. Each Movie Clip runs for 7 seconds. The problems is if I click all 3 buttons inside the 7 seconds all 3 Movie Clip will be playing together.

If someone clicks the button quickly I want the present Movie Clip to stop and the new one start. In other words I only want one Movie Clip to be able to play at once.

I know this can be done, but I need some help please...Thanks

Multiple Scenes
Can someone explain to me please on how to have more then one scene playing at once? I would appreciate it! Thanks in advance!

All At Once Or Multiple Scenes?
Ok I just need some advice this time.
My Test is going to be 80 questions long for the 80 Kanji needed for the Japanese Language Proficiency Test level 4.
Therefore the test will have to contain eighty images do you think that I should attempt to load all the kanji at once which may take a while or have them load into new scenes so that only one is loaded at a time, reducing download speed?

Multiple Scenes
how do i tell flash to choose scene two as the starting scene instead of scene 1. please help.

Multiple Scenes
when i add a second scene to my movie...the quality of the images seems to suffer.

any help would be great,
thanks

Plz Help, Multiple Scenes
I need some help, quick please.

I have a scrolling movie clip that reacts on the position of my mouse. Inside that movieclip, i have several buttons to go to an other scene, but somehow they don't seem to work.

When I copy and paste the button to the root of the scene (Level0), the buttons do work..

Does anyone have an idea about what i am doing wrong?!

Help With Multiple Scenes
I have created a flash page, and I have an mp3 player on it also.

Now, the player sits off to the side, and every time I switch scenes (The scenes names are: Pre-Intro, Intro, aboutme, friends, signs, and comment. Since those are the names of the panels)

Now, when I switch from like, about me, to comment, the mp3 player resets itself. Since it switched to a new scene. Is there a way I could make the player loop through all the scenes, so when I switch it doesn't refresh itself?

Look here to test it yourself.

http://one.xthost.info/dudenoway/Flash/aboutme.swf

(Don't mind the color problems, and other errors, I'm still fixing the page)

Does Anyone Use Multiple Scenes?
I was wondering if anyone uses multiple scenes in their projects and if so why. I don't really see the need to use them. Thanks

Please Help With Using AS In Multiple Scenes
Hi All, I have been using multiple scenes for an animation but then added extra controls on top of it. Like pause, play, close and a link to an index.

However, I have recently been having problems. I have an event listener that also listens out for a page down key press. Up until now I have been adding in new code at the first frame of each scene but with new function names to avoid duplications.

But I seem to be getting errors now for old event listeners (from a number of scenes back) I am just wondering if these event listeners are carried on right to the end of the flash movie, if so should I remove every event listener on the last frame of each scene?

Otherwise how should I do this in the future?

Thanks for reading

Multiple Scenes
Hi,

I have three scenes in a single movie. Scene # 1 has menus at the top. When I click on 1st submenu I should be able to see menus (at the top ) as well as scene # 2 below the menu bar. When I click on 2nd submenu I should be able to see menus (at the top ) as well as scene # 3 below the menu bar. This is sort of implementing tutorial. When you select a particular chapter(menu) below text will change.

I really appreciate some guidance to implement this.

Thanks

Running Multiple Movie Clips From One Button
Howdy:

I've got a horizontal slide site. I have a picture panel and a black panel that contains text.

I'm trying to reference both panels from my nav buttons to slide according to my settings.

My buttons reference

on (release) {
targetx = 1000;
slide.gotoAndPlay("move");
}

"move" is the label in my scripts that contain the actions to control the x value.

My problem is I have used two separate scripts to control each panel and I've put these scripts on my main movie. If I have one it works great, but when I have two, only one works and that would be the original. I've tried putting these scripts on separate layers as well as the same layer.

The only difference between these scripts is that they reference separate movie clips (being my different panels).

Do I need to make a change to my button action? (see above)
Can flash only read one script on the main timeline? I didn't think so.

Thanks for any help.

ww

Multiple Movie Clips (button) Question
I have created a movie clip that basically has an arrow that will flash when the user mouses over it. It also contains a button. Is there a way if I were to place 4-5 of these in my document I can detect if one was clicked? I can't place the onRelease code in the clip itself or it takes effect for all instances. Can I manipulate just a single instance of the movie clip button?

Basically I am loading a few items from a database and this will go next to the item and I was hoping to do something like this when clicked

getURL("http://somesite.com/mypage.php?ID=" + theCorrespondingTextField.text);

Again if I place this code in the movie clip itself then all instances of the button do the same thing...

[MX04] Multiple Movie Control From Button
Hey all,

Okay first, picture this:

- A long christmas garland with 115 lightbulbs on it (115x same object, with 115 different instance names), each with an on/off loop, and a button at the end.

I want to achieve the following:

- on the click of my button, I tell the odd-numbered bulbs to go on and start looping, and tell the even-numbered bulbs to wait 1 sec, then also go on and start looping (thus achieving a small delay so all my garland lights blink in alternance).

Get it?

Now what's that script I should have on my button?

Thanks in advance.

Multiple Scenes With Menu In Mc
Dear Flashee’s
I have three scenes S1, S2 and S3 in my flash movie with starting frame of each scene labeled as “a”, “b” and “c” respectively. My navigation controls are in the movie clip in the form of pull down menus. Each scene has the instance of this navigation mc as m1,m2 and m3.
When a button in the movie clip that is menu button tries to load the next scene S2 by using
on (press) {
_root.gotoandplay("S2", “a”);
}
movie jumps to scene S2. But when the same button i.e. menu button in mc is pressed again when the current scene is S2 and frame is “a”, movie jumps to S1 or S3 instead of loading frame “a” of S2 again. Why its happening? Any clue? Can u people help me?

I have followed many examples and free fla’s to pin down this problem. But no one had dealt with pull down menu in movie clip with multiple scenes. Why so? is it not recommended to use multiple scenes? Should I use multiple movies and load them accordingly than loading scenes?

PlayStatus Across Multiple Scenes?
Hey!
Glenn kindly provided me with some script for a stop start space bar;

onClipEvent (keyDown) {
if (Key.SPACE) {
if (playStatus == 1) {
playStatus = 0;
_parent.stop();

} else {
playStatus = 1;
_parent.play();

}
}
}

now how do I apply that to a multiple scene movie. The script above only works in the first scene? hoping this is possible or i'm in big trouble

thanks.
jodie.

Same Background In Multiple Scenes
One more major question:

If I'm creating a flash movie with multiple scenes (each one to coinside with a specific section of my site as determined by my menu bar), but want all of my scenes to contain the same basic background, would it be best to create this background image as a graphic symbol in the library, then insert it in each scene? If so, when inserting, is the best way to make sure it's centered by using the Info Panel? And, how do I make sure my background image is the correct size, say 800 x 600?

Also, since I'm designing a corporate front-end should I set it's size properties to 800 X 600?

Preloaders For Multiple Scenes?
I'm sorry if this is a lame question. This is my first visit to this forum, so I don't know the ediquette yet. I tried looking at a past thread called "preloader help" but it gave me the cursed 404.

Anyhoo, I'm working on a basic flash website that consists of several scenes. I was wondering if it's possible to make a preloader for all those scenes, so that the person only has to load it once and they can cruise the whole site? Thanks.