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Subject: Re: [flasher] Re: Communicate between movie clips
From: Doug Ross
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 23:12:09 -0000

Thank You ...works perfect. Can't believe it was that simple!!


Doug Ross
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Muzak" <muzakatpandora [dot] be>
To: "flasher from chinwag" <flasheratlists [dot] chinwag [dot] com>
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 1:57 PM
Subject: [flasher] Re: Communicate between movie clips


> When published, Scenes no longer excist in the SWF movie. So the main
timeline becomes one long timeline of all your scenes 1 after
> the other. So, if your first scene has 20 frames, the next scene actually
starts at frame 21 - So frame 1 of the second scene
> becomes frame 21.
>
> To avoid all this, use frame labels instead of frame numbers. Just name
every first keyframe of every scene - something like
> "preloader", "main", etc...
>
> _root.gotoAndStop("main");
>
> this will direct the movie to the beginning of scene 2 (assuming you named
the first keyframe in scene 2: main)
>
> hth,
> Muzak
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm sure that this is a syntax problem and I hope someone can help
me....
> >
> >
> > I have a PRELOADER scene and a MAIN MOVIE Scene
> > I place a movie clip on stage (in the MAIN MOVIE Scene)
> > The movie clip contains a drop down navigation.....(Products)
> > When you roll over Products the movie shows a drop down menu (Prod1 Prod
> > 2...etc)
> > When you click on drop down menu it return to the Preloader Scene rather
> > than the MAIN MOVIE scene
> > Here is the syntax
> >
> > on (release) {
> > _root.gotoandStop(12);
> > }
> > Any Hints on how to tell what Scene to go to ??
> >
> >
> > Doug Ross
> > Partner
>
>
>
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