Re: FLASH: Dumb newbie question

[John Dowdell]

At 10:42 AM 9/11/0, Kristopher Wainwright wrote:

>Scene 1 has a button that takes you to Scene 2 (the

>main page) and the first button on Scene 2 is supposed

>to take you to the begining of Scene 3.  Instead, it

>takes you back to Scene 1.  Keep in mind that the EXE

>works like it's supposed to, and the SWF is where this

>problem is occuring. What am I doing wrong ?


Please, no need to put yourself down! This is a very new field, and even

the old hands have been doing this for only two years or so. We're all

having to learn new stuff every day, so keeping a positive attitude seems

to be the best overall way to surf over the ever-expanding range of things

to learn.


I'm not sure what the problem is in the above description. A great standard

troubleshooting device is the one-or-all-files test... make a simple

representation of what you suspect the core problem to be. If this also

shows the problem then you've isolated the correct details. If the

barebones example works, though, then you've got a proof-of-concept for the

larger idea, and can then gradually make the small success and large

failure more like each other until you identify the part which caused the

initial problem.


(The above gets typed out _A LOT_ on this and other lists... whittling away

parts of the problem and poking at it can save much, much time in the long

run.)


For "How might a button go to the wrong scene?" then I'd wonder whether

perhaps the script was overly tricky, or perhaps there's a naming issue, or

perhaps the file is streaming in and the target is not yet available, or

perhaps an old copy of the movie is stuck in the browser's cache... could

be a couple of ways to get such a symptom, and I'm not confident I could

imagine them all. You should expect to have basic navigational actions work

as you expect, though... there are no lurking issues there, if that context

is of help.


fwiw, many folks no longer use scenes, particularly as projects become more

complex, but that's more an individual decision than a hard-and-fast

rule... you can go either way.


I'm sorry I don't know what the hidden cause of the discrepancy is in that

movie there, but the above are some of the things to come to mind, if that

helps you move forward in this project.


jd






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