Re:FLASH:Button control

[Marc Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media]

At 05:58 AM 1/14/00 , you wrote:


>Please help!

>

>I have a menu scene with 5 buttons. All the buttons go to the same scene and

>play through a 100 frame intro. I have split up this scene into 5 sections 

>each

>labelled correspondingly. What I want to know is if I press button 1, can I

>insert some lingo which will make flash:

>

>1.  go to the next scene

>2. play the intro (first 100 frames)

>3. on the 101st frame remember which button was hit (button 1 in this 

>case) and

>go to the frame labelled 1. Similarly go to labelled frame 2 for button 2 

>and so

>on.

>

>I know that another way of doing this would be to have different scenes 

>for each

>button with the same intro at the beginning of each, but this makes the file

>size huge.



You would use Action Script to store the button number as a variable, then 

refer to that variable at the end of the 100 frames.  By the way, you also 

could convert those 100 frames to a movie clip that you then re-use. This 

might be simpler if you don't know ActionScript, and would not increase 

your file size by any appreciable amount.



Marc Hoffman


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