Re: FLASH: creating a link to a scene within a movie

[Marc Hoffman]

At 06:27 PM 1/2/99 -0500, you wrote: 

>

> HI Flashers!

>  

> Ok maybe I just don't get it! It seems like this should be simple but I

> really need some help.

>  

> I have an initial movie (main.fla) that becomes a navigation menu for the

> site content (content.fla). The background colors for the 2 movies are

> different so they must be separate movies. content.fla has 10 scenes.



Hi Chris.

You don't need separate movies.  Just use a solid, stage-size rectangle of the

color of your choice in the lowest layer to serve as a background, and change

its fill color as needed.  Also, the use of scenes is going to make problems

for navigation, use of movie clips, and sounds. Use frame labels instead of

scene barriers.



>

>  

> How do I create a button action on main.htm that will link to content.htm

> scene X ?




You need not use two html pages for two movies.  Use one page and learn about

LoadMovie to add the second movie on a higher level.  The first frame of that

movie should be blank with a Stop action so it is what we call "parked," that

is, stopped and invisible.  Then you use TellTarget to make it move to the

frame where you want it to go.


For smaller movies, combine them into one movie, and consider putting some of

them into movie clips.  For larger animations, or multiple animations where you

don't know what the user will call next (non-linear navigation), Load Movie

will help manage the streaming bandwidth.


Advantages of these techniques over separate HTML pages include less user wait

time if content loading is well managed.





Marc Hoffman

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