Flash :: Beginner

Really NEW Beginner
Okay, I'm beyond new. I've done the tutorial/lessons in FlashMX, and I've printed off the ENTIRE 90 page Tutorial from Macromedia. I'm not stupid and I have NEVER had problems learning new stuff like this. So, here is where I stand.

I've tried two different movies. One is a classic "cut the jaw" off to make a picture talk. The other is a picture where I have a small part of text go from small to big, all of this one is hand-drawn.

The first one just did NOT work. I had it working then for some strange reason my computer decided it wanted to be restarted and it wasn't going to let me do one more thing, but that's my problem.

The second one when I "test the movie", doesn't work, but it does when I'm in the editor mode and I hit enter. This may not make sense, but if there is ANYONE who would just want to talk to me and help make one movie that uses things, then I'll be able to do ita gain. Of course, it would be nice to see how you all are doing things by opening them up and then following your train of though, but I can't find any that I can do that with. HELP ME!!!

Rachel

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AS Beginner
I'm just starting out with ActionScript.
I've put together an interface with a simple behavior attached to a button. There's an input box called enterNumber and a script that tests to see if the input is an odd or even number (using the modulo operator to test the value).
On the button is a simple script that says:

on (release) {
if (enterNumber%2 == 0) {
gotoAndPlay(2);
} else {
gotoAndPlay(3);
}
}

If the user enters an even number, the movie should go to frame 2 where a message tells them they entered an even number. If they enter an odd number, they should go to frame 3 with an odd number message.

It's not rocket science I know, but I can't get it to work. In each case, the user gets taken to frame 3, which means that although the button is functioning, the script that decides the outcome is not.

To take a look for yourself, go to http://www.centpercent.com/user_input_001.swf
The .fla file can be downloaded at http://www.centpercent.com/user_input_001.fla

I would appreciate if somebody could tell me what I am doing wrong and also WHY it is wrong.

Many thanks,

Richard

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Beginner
hello

in first place it would like of you congratulate him for the excellent web site.

I am a beginner in Macromedia flash and I have some doubts that, if possible he would like to ask some clues.

How to do for my site to have one paginates initial where would have only the identification of the company and when clicking in the logo or in any button, he would open a second window in certain size for me, type her web site.

thankful
ricardo motta
ricmotta@ajato.com.br

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Beginner Needs Help
Hi people,

Does anybody know how I can check the number of lines contained in a dynamic textfield filled with stuff?
This is very important for my job .... help ... there has to be a way

thx
qali

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Beginner Help
Hey all ive had flash mx for awhile but i have just been making cartoons. Im starting up a buisness and would like to have a nice site for it so im trying to get into the web design. Id like to start with just basic drop down menus and such but i cant figure any of this out on my own (xml) and im confused...cant find any tutorials either... if somone would be kind enough to help me out here.
A step by step process would be Xtremely Helpful

menus i was looking at
plan on starting off with somthing like this menu
http://www.middlefinger.de/master.html
and after awhiles work having something like this
http://www.draxxus.com/
i do need help though and this is a pretty urgent thing so plz plz plz help

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Some Beginner Qs
Hi, I`m kind of new to flash and I have some questions I hope you can help me with ...

So here it goes ... I`ve seen all these cool effects on flash websites and pretty much understand how they can be accomplished in photoshop ... but ... is there any way that photoshop can communicate with flash quality lossless? Especially transparent blurry images .. stuff like that ...

... even if I import images to flash .. positioning it in concrete spot is really horrible ... because images seem to sift a little bit when the swf is published and the measurements are with coma. And if my image is as big as the stage... when published strange border appears in left/top sides.

If I import an swf file to flash all the images in it are with sick quality ...

Another thing i noticed is that when in explorer i toggeled the quality of the swf file ... the content moved a little bit too...

Well here it goes .. I hope you understood what I ment and can help me ... big thanks

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Beginner Please Help
I am building a website in flash. I have a movie clip that I want to play when I change pages (for example: it is a picture that I have put on the home page and I want it to fade out when I go to another page on the website) what do I do??

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Help A Beginner
Need Help. Some time ago I needed your comment on my Site www.mchagar.dk
and got the message back that Frames are a bad thing. So I´ve started making the same site in Flash.
I´ve attached the movie I´m working on, and would like someone to look at it.

It starts with a front page where the user can chose Danish og German. Klik "Dansk".
this opens a page with our logo and a menu, Klik "Klub" Here I would like, when the user Klik´s for example "Medlemmer" to open, in the same page, a picture and some tekst, without loosing the top logo and the menu, and when the user klik´s "klub" again ( to reveal the Menu again) to to go back to frame 1, so that the user can start over.

I have always gotten great help here, so I hope to get it again.

Roxy

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Help An AS Beginner Please
Flash 8 Pro/AS 2.0

I'm working on my website below. I'm not a brilliant Actionscript genius yet, far to go. Looking for Tutorial on how to load external movies, while controlling the loaded movies from action with in the _root movie.

Goal: have the nav buttons load in the pages (separate created swf movies) into a Host movie container. While each swf movie has a transition playing out from it's stop point to animate the page swiping off, I give the buttons this AS:

//play out loaded movie
on(release) {
_root.myHost.gotoAndPlay("Playout");
//load linked movie
_root.content_mc.loadMovie("Home.swf");
}

"Playout" is a label in each movie, because each movie is not the same frame length, I can't use a frame number.

This works for the "HOME" nav button, but, I'm not getting it to work for other buttons, when I use the loadMovie("Film.swf") for example.

I would like to find a simple tutorial on this subject. I'm so eager to learn AS and yet, I find mySelf overwhelmed due to beginner's fatigue. Any recommendations for tutorials and Books is welcome. Just a great place to start, would be helpful. Anyone's help is greatly appreciated.

www.curtsong.com

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[F8] Beginner Here
was jus wondering in order to upload your website if its all done in flash what are the steps to upload? or would it be easier to import the whole flash movie into dreamweaver?

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Beginner Nd's Help
i decided to start messing about with flash and have created a few basic fun game/type things but now i wish to move on to soething more challenging. What i need help for is i want to know the coding or guidelines to creating a ball off which its movement depends an collision with a character. I understand this can be tricky but any help is much appreciated.

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Beginner
Hi

I am trying to make a simple swf that when clicking on different buttons, you see a different piece of text in a box on the side.
The buttons stay constant (on layer 1) and everything else changes on the other layers.
But the swf just runs through then all.

Am I forgeting something simple?

I have no clue why this is not working, I cut/pasted/changed variable numbers -- but I get errors from this:

I also have no clue how to have it stop on the start...

Thanks,

Mid
stop();

viral1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, mouseDownHandler1);
function mouseDownHandler1(event:MouseEvent):void {
gotoAndStop(5);
}

social2.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, mouseDownHandler2);
function mouseDownHandler2(event:MouseEvent):void {
gotoAndStop(10);
}
green.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, mouseDownHandler3);
function mouseDownHandler3(event:MouseEvent):void {
gotoAndStop(15);
}
creative.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, mouseDownHandler4);
function mouseDownHandler4(event:MouseEvent):void {
gotoAndStop(20);
}
clients2.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, mouseDownHandler5);
function mouseDownHandler5(event:MouseEvent):void {
gotoAndStop(25);
}
about2.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, mouseDownHandler6);
function mouseDownHandler6(event:MouseEvent):void {
gotoAndStop(30);
}
contact.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, mouseDownHandler7);
function mouseDownHandler7(event:MouseEvent):void {
gotoAndStop(35);
}

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Beginner
Hi

I can program in c++ and some directx and i want to learn flash.
I have mtasc compiler and want to learn actionscript with this.

Where can i find out tutorials on open source flash programming because i don't have the IDE. I don't know enough about flash to just copy and paste into an editor and compile using mtasc.

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A Beginner NEEDS Help
In CS3 I need help for implementing some Flash into a dreamweaver website.

First I need to know how to go back and forth between a couple pictures in flash. I made my two buttons going back and forward with the pictures, and after that I need help on what to do?

I severly need help in that I have no idea what to do?

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Very Much Beginner...
I haven´t written a single script in my entire life, but haven´t found any answers to my basic questions on the web...

1. Do I need to have blank line/lines in certain places in the actionscript?
2. Why is there i white square (with black borders) in the frame before a keyframe in the timeline?
3. Does the layer containing the actionscript have to be the "toplayer"?
4. Can I have several layers containing actionscript in the same movie? If yes, how do I know what actions they are controlling?

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Before I Become A Beginner...
My video has 1800 frames and works without the need for Flash Communication Server if the end user has DSL. If embedded and the end user has a dial-up connection it will not download. Also, using dial-up it will not stream (I am using media components in 2004 Pro). Do I need to buy Flash Communication Server for the video to work when the end user has dial-up connection to the Internet?

Another way to ask the same question is: Is it true that Flash Communication Server is not going to stream and resolve the above problem if the client is a dial-up connection to the Internet.

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Beginner Help
Heya all,
Was wondering if someone might point me in the direction to learn how to control a movie through the use of a slider bar (think the same slider bar you can control when viewing a dvd). I have a series of images that I've developed into a short movie that utilises various tweens and fades and ideally the user would be able to move back and forth using this slider bar. I've done a search (on most of everywhere on the net just about) and have been unable to find something like that I've described.

Unfortunatly I'm still very new to action-scripting so I haven't been able to work it out myself. If someone could point me in the direction of a tutorial maybe? Or even explain to me how I would get a slider bar attatched to a movie, I would be very much appreciated

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Help Me.. Am A Beginner
I've created a dynamic map application. It displays properly when it's tested locally. when it's embedded in a coldfusion file and tested, it displays as a blank one. What would be the reason?
The map got an interface on which the maps are getting displayed.. Only the interface is appearing. Plz give your suggestions soon
Thanx in advance

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Beginner
I am using Macromedia Flash 8 Professional, and I am trying to follow the steps to create an invisible button. I am in the button's timeline, and I am supposed to create a key frame in the hit frame. How can I do this? The directions say to click on the hit frame in the timeline, but it will not allow me to do this without first putting a keyframe in the over and down frames first. Is there some trick to putting a keyframe in the hit frame without adding two more keyframes. Unfortunately this text book leaves a lot of information out. Please help me with this.

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Beginner Needs Help
Hello everyone,

I've recently started using Flash, and have so far found it one of the hardest things I've ever tried to learn. I actually tried a few years ago and gave up for this reason, but I'm determined to stick it out this time. There are numerous things about this programme that confuse/anger me while I'm still floundering in newbeeness, but one particular issue is really bothering me, so if a kind expert would help me out I'd really appreciate it.

If you have an animation that's thirty frames long (for example), and you set the first frame as a keyframe, then change the position of the anchor point (that might not be what flash calls them, but the circle that determines where the axis that the symbol rotates from is), then copy that frame to also be the last frame, and make that also a keyframe, it seems that any time you add an additional keyframe inbetween the two, the position of the anchor point resets to the default position, which is in the centre. Perhaps I'm going about it the wrong way, but I find this frustrating as I don't want to have to manually change the position of it, and on top of that I don't know a method of guaranteeing I'm putting it in the same place when I change it as I'm working by eye.

So my questions are:

1) Can I stop flash from resetting it?
and
2) If it does reset it, is there anyway of changing it using a numerical value or a grid position so I can maintain continuity?

Any help or advice at all would be helpful and gratefully received.

-Dylan

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Beginner Needs Help
Hi all,
I am NOT a flash user. I am just trying to use the program to prepare an FLV for the web. I followed these instructions:

www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/getstart_flv.html

I understand everything but when I enter the URL into the component inspector it gives me the message "Failed to load:...". It seems as though the flash project is not linking well with my file on my server. However, when I give the component inspector a local path it works perfectly. What could be wrong?

Jared

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Beginner Here
This is probably obvious, but I can't seem to figure it out, please help. I set up a button and changed the color under over and down, my question is how do I get the button to stay the color when I click it and then bring up more objects within the same swf movie? I think that makes sense. Thanks.

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Beginner Needs Help
Please pardon my silly question that shows my ignorance, but I need help. I just bought a used version of Flash 8 and am trying to learn, but am stumped at the get go. Don't have a manual other than a pdf version and can't find any answers in that. Used several online tutorials, but nothing that I can find covers the specifics.

I have a circle that I want to cut in half so it has one flat side. I did a test using the crop command and it worked fine. Now, in my actual project I cannot do it. I did notice that in the test the circle when selected has a blue box around it, but in my project no blue box, the object is screened and the crop feature is grayed out. I gotta be missing something simple.

I did find out that the editable image is a drawing object while the screened image is a shape. This shouldn't be this difficult.

Thanks for any and all help.

the simpleton,

garmp1

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Help, Im A Beginner.
Heres what i have... Im working on a website with a flash .swf banner on the top that includes the menu. Everytime a menu link is clicked that page loads up and the flash banner has to reload(the banner is the same on every page). Is there anyway i can make that banner load just once when you enter the website and stay loaded while the site in navegated through?

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Help I'm A Beginner....
Hi All

Im trying to create an interactive map where when i rollover a certain section of the map - i get an additional image.
I think that i need to image map (hotspot) the map which is fine but i cant figure out how to get the rollover image. Is flash the best place to start of Fireworks

Here is an example of what im trying to achieve
http://www.startautosmart.co.uk/over_autosmart.html

Thanks for listening.

Sparky 31

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Beginner Help
I have created a simple swf application that will play a flv file. I have made a variant that uses an xml file to select the file.

Is there a way I can just call the swf with an argument of what file to play? Or do I have to create the xml file to send it to the swf?

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Help A Beginner
I've tried making a rectangle flip like a page (flipping in a book) with transform, but I'm getting that it isn't quite the right tool.
Can someone direct me?

Edited: 01/24/2009 at 08:40:03 AM by chheyden

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FMS Beginner
Please help, I'm new to FMS, just installed it on my pc and I also have an Apache server installed. How do I run my swf files inside my web server? ex: http://localhost/text_chat.swf

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Beginner Asking For Help
I got a button "simpleButton" in my library. His linking name : "simpleButton"

When I instanciate the class below, instead of seeing the button appearing on the Stage, I get an error message:
call to an undefined method on "addChild" line.

Anyone could help me?
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
package {
import flash.display.*

public class btn extends SimpleButton {
function btn () {
var B:simpleButton=new simpleButton ()
addChild(B)
}
}

}

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Help A Beginner?
i noticed that ALL TIME FLASH sites have good transitions from page to page... when you click a button in the movie, it takes you to another screen... is each screen a separate project?

also... i noticed that when you turn an object into a button and double click.. you are taken to button options (up, down, hit...) but how do you change all that to standard timeline... i noticed that some samples on the kirupa site have objects as buttons, but when you double click you are not taken to UP DOWN HIT, but a timeline that is like the normal one you start with

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Beginner Needs Help
Hello, im new to actionscript, but not entirely to flash, and can somone please tell me a could online free course to help me with learning Actionscript 2 or just the basics at least to ActionScript 2

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Beginner Help...
Alright...I been practicing Flash MX for a few days now. I had the program for 2+ years but been kinda on and off messing with it, now I decided I wanna make an effort to learn it. So...does anybody know of any place I can go to get a full tutorial on how to create a flash site? Im talking about from scratch. I figure thats the only way I'll learn. So can anyone help me out.

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Plz Help From A Beginner
hi, could anyone plz help me out with this, the problem seems to be too simple to find a solution from the web tutorial.

what i want to do is, when certain button is clicked, replace a certain symbol(button) by another symbol(movieclip) stored in the library.

i try things like loadmovie("","") to replace the symbol from a external jpg, but some how it does not align even both images are exact dimension.
can i replace an image straight from the library?

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Please, Help A Beginner
In my flash page i made, in the right side, a horizontal infinite menu with a magnifying glass that has the same effect. This clip is made separately and is loaded into the page by an empty movie clip. All works well when is not in the page, but when it is loaded the lens is not moving. I figured out this problem putting this AS into the empty movie clip:

onClipEvent (mouseDown) {
startDrag("lens");
}
onClipEvent (mouseUp) {
stopDrag();
}

But another problem appeared. Wherever i use the mouse, the lens are acting as if i am manipulating it. The lens are moving according to the position of the mouse. What can i do? I know that the problem is this AS i-m using in the flash page, but i'm only at my beginnings in flash.

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Beginner
I just recently took over my website that a designer was working on. I know nothing about flash but managed to edit a few files. I am hoping someone could have a look at my site and walk me through a few things. My main problem is the transition between my main page (not the index page) to the fist link in my website.... the other links work fine but the page remains blank. my website is lisawiltse.com.

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Need Serious Beginner's Help
http://www.hbo.com/sopranos/wernick/index.shtml

Go to Family Tree. I need to do this now. I have played with making these mug shots buttons with movie clips within. I cannot get the whole thing to work, mainly because I have no idea what I'm doing. This is not for fun. This is the site my boss wants to emulate for a client's org chart. This week. Major DETAILED help would be appreciated. I know the most basic aspects of Flash, but this is a bit beyond me.

The main thing I need to do is the rollover that tweens to a larger image and then click to a bio card.

Sopranos site

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Beginner AS3
Hi all. I'm a total novice at AS3, pretty general novice at AS since the only lectures I had basically involved 'If you copy this you end up with this'. So, what I'd like to know:

Instances
If I place a movie clip on the stage using var NewClip:myMovieClip = new myMovieClip(); ,how can I give the created instance (I assume it's an instance) a name so that I can call it and manipulate it? Preferable using a procedural naming technique

ie
for (i=0, i<10, i++){ //Standard incremental loop
create NewClip:myMovieClip; //My way of saying 'create a new instance of myMovieClip
rename NewClip:("Clip" + i) //Rename the created clip "Clip" then the current value of i

My background is in MEL, so if anyone can draw comparisons to that it might help. Who knows ;)

Cheers

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Well, I Am A Beginner And
i want to learn something in the flas downloaded here. however, when i open the fla file, nothing can i see. for example, the horizontal menu fla provided by wireframe, when i open it. only got the copyright note. sigh, i am stupid

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Please Help A Beginner :-)
Just downloaded this tutorial (11_scrollbar1 : By Wireframe)...I am pretty new in Flash, however learning pretty quickly...Unfortunantely my luck has come to an end

This is the navigation with scroll (content)...I cant seem to put a mask on the text so when it is out of the border it doesnt show...I know...stupid question..forgive me.

I just need a basic vertical scroll that can hold content..similar to a frame in HTML...You can see this in www.lennykravitz.com the designers used this scroll alot..

Thank you in advance...

EGLSTAR

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Help This Beginner, Plz
i'm a beginner at actionscript but learning quickly. I have a few looped thumbnails scrolling to the right. my questions is...how do i make the whole thumnails clip scroll to the left on rollover of the right bottom side of the stage, n scroll to the right on rollover of the left bottom side of the clip?

SOS!!

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Beginner In Need Of Some Help Please
so over the summer i was into flash, making flash myspace's and stuff, which was fairly simple for a beginner. now i figured out i want to be a webdesigner when i graduate high school in 2 years, and i wanted to make a portfolio for all the stuff i've done.. i dont know why, but i figured it'll give me something to do.

anyway i need some help. how come my future portfolio takes so long to load? like 10 seconds?

http://www.freewebs.com/luvzccr/

is it beacause i have errors in some of the actionscript?

i also have this loader:

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/40773351/

i want that to be my main loader for the portfolio, but i dont know how to make it where you click on enter and it'll come up. sorry, im a newbie, i've searched on a lot of flash sites but havent gotten alot of help, like tutorialized, kiupra *or however u spell it*, toxiclab.org, pixel2life, but i like this site, so hope u help, thanks

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Beginner Help,
Hi i'm new to flash and need some help please. Can anyone tell me where i could find a basic beginners tutorial on how to create a simple animation then a simple button that plays and stops that animation in AS3.I have tried and cannot get it right, when i test my scene the animation plays, the button states all seem fine but when i click my button nothing happens. The animation begins as soon as i test the scene how do i make it start only when i click my button. I have checked my script and there are no errors. Any help would be much appreciated ( it's a shool project i have to hand in on Monday). Thank's

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Beginner Needs Help
I am brand new to Flash. This is probably this simplest thing but I can't figure it out. I have tried the help files. Can't find it.
I am trying to embed a Flash application on my website. I want it to autorun as soon as the page is loaded. And I want it to continue to loop through the pics as long as the user stays on the page. I can't get it to do either. Can somebody help? BTW, I am using an older version of Flash...FlashMX.
And to be honest, I am not even sure if it is ActionScript 2 that I need. Maybe there is a tool in Flash that will let me do this.
Thanks,
Bill

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Beginner Needs Help
I am new to flash so please excuse the simplisity of this question.

I have a project that I am building and I have a problem. In three different scenes there are 2 animations that I need to "goto" but in a specific order and the gotoandplay command isn't working.

For Example:

Scene1 has 2 animations (Scene1Anime1) is the building animation of the page (Scene1Anime2) is the removal animation of the page. In the middle is a static frame of the full completed page.
Scene2 has 2 animations as well (Scene2Anime1) is the building animation of the page (Scene2Anime2) is the removal animation of the page. In the middle is a static frame of the full completed page.
Scene3 has 2 animations too (Scene3Anime1) is the building animation of the page (Scene3Anime2) is the removal animation of the page. In the middle is a static frame of the full completed page.

Each scene has a button that I want to -when clicked- play the appropriate removal animation (SceneXAnime2) and the "goto" the appropriatly selected building animation (SceneYAnime1)

The only thing I have been able to do is write a "goto" action script that only does one of the animations. I don't know how to write the script to procede to the next animation.

Please help! Again if this is very simplistic my appologies. But we all have to start somewhere. I guess I am a late bloomer

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Help Please. Think This Is Beginner Stuff.
Hello,

I created a simple tic tac toe board (9 squareS). I made a symbol called Button1 which when hovered over shades.

I put this button in all 9 squares.

I am trying to make it so when I click a square, that button disappears and marks X which is graphic symbol called S_X.

I tried playing with visibility but all I can ever make disappear is the whole movie.

I can get 1 square to work by making the button when clicked jump to frame say 40 which shows X but this does no good past that.

Any help please please....

I am going nuts now.

Thanks!

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