FLASH: Flow Question(repost of my mis-titled post, was Re: Preloading movies)

[Andrew Golden]

Well, I have been lurking for awhile and I finally have a question.


I am working on a small site with what seems like it would be a pretty 

basic menu. To see what I am talking, go to this link:


http://www.cyberramp.net/~agolden/flash/sn.swf


The four buttons are pretty simple and straight forward. When each button 

is clicked, I need to see which of the four pictures is visible in the 

top left hand corner of the screen and react based on that information. 

If the video button is clicked and the video tape is showing than I just 

need to stop the loop on the videotape image,  fade out the s/n logo and 

fade in some text(where the s/n logo was). If the video button is clicked 

while the movie ticket image is clicked, I need to fade out the ticket 

image and the s/n logo, fade in the video image and some text(same 

location as above). the same pattern is correct if any of the other two 

images are visible at the time of the mouse event. Once the video screen 

is loaded, a click on any other button will have to fade out the video 

image and video text and fade in the new image and new text(corresponding 

to which button was clicked of course).


anyone have any suggestions as to how to lay this out? At the moment the 

build on of the screen is one scene and than it switches to a different 

scene where the menu is already built to do the looping of the images. 

Yes, I could have easily done that in one scene but I find it easier to 

work when things are broken up more. Any ideas or suggestions? With four 

buttons and four possible paths for each button to take upon being 

clicked I am finding myself somewhat overwhelmed. Hopefully someone will 

have some wonderfull idea as to how best simplify this. TIA!




Andrew Golden

agoldenairmail [dot] net

Raving Lunatic at Large

angoldenmail [dot] smu [dot] edu

"Advil. Just two a day helps me control my arthritis pain. 

Just ten a day helps me control bugs with my mind."




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