FLASH: Need some help with button to control a movie clip

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Hi,


I need to set up a submit button that controls a movie clip based on whether

a user enters text into some text fields. Let's say I have 3 textfields...

one for name, the second for address and the third for phone number. I also

have a 4 frame movie clip on the stage (first frame is empty to be invisible

on the stage) with 3 error messages that play according to the user input of

the textfields. If the user fills out 1 and 3, but doesn't put info. into

field 2, then the movie clip will play to frame 3 where there is a message

that says "you need to fill in your address" etc... I also need the script

to be able to send the movie to another frame in the timeline if all the

info. has been filled out. At that frame, there is a "thank you" page and

other stuff. It seems simple enough.. but I'm having trouble putting the

code together. I'm thinking I can just get away with a "if/then goto and

play" type statement... but not totally sure of how to go about this. I was

hoping someone on the list could nudge me in the right direction so I don't

have to spend countless hours reading and testing until I find the answer.


By the way.. it's for demo purposes so the results of the fields don't need

to be sent to the server.. if that matters.


Thanks in advance!!


alan


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