[krillin]

Hi all, now i just followed this tutorial on intro and exit animations and found it very helpful, but i have come across a problem and am hoping for a little help from one of you actionscript geniuses if at all possible.

I would like the buttons that navigate the site to be in the same external SWF's so i can animate them as well, the problem is i can't seem to get the actionscript to work, here's what mine looks like:

container.button01.onPress = function() {
	if (_root.currMovie == undefined) {
	_root.currMovie = "home";
	_root.container.loadMovie("home.swf");
		} else if (_root.currMovie != "home") {
		if (container._currentframe >= container.midframe) {
	_root.currMovie = "home";
	container.play();
	}
	}
}

And i've also tried using

this._lockroot = true;

in the external SWFs but that didn't work either I'm completely lost, does anyone have see where i'm going wrong?

Cheers.

[Roberto]

Hello

You could just animate the buttons in the containing swf - using container.button01.gotoAndPlay(frameNumber); to control the animation of the button, when it is clicked on + use gotoAndStop(frameNumber) or stop(); within that movieclip/button to stop the movieclip/button from looping the animation + to stop at the right frame.

Rob

[krillin]

Cheers for the reply, but i figured it out after reading this and having a long drawn out battle with actionscript!

If anyones interested, or has the same problem and stumbles across this thread he's what i did:

The stage holds a empty MC called "container" thats about it.

On each of the dynamically loaded SWFs the actionscript for their buttons looks like this:

stop();
this._lockroot = true;

button1.onPress = function() {
	if (_level0.currMovie == undefined) {
	_level0.currMovie = "home";
	_level0.container.loadMovie("home.swf");
		} else if (_level0.currMovie != "home") {
		if (_level0.container._currentframe >= _level0.container.midframe) {
	_level0.currMovie = "home";
	_level0.container.play();
	}
	}
}

button2.onPress = function() {
	if (_level0.currMovie == undefined) {
	_level0.currMovie = "art";..... yadda yadda yadda, you get the idea

The problem was i was using _root when i should of been using _level0, once i tried that it all fell into place

Get in you beauty! Back of the net!! I figured it out, me! thats a hell of an achievement for someone whose an artist and not a coder, but i am going to start doing my homework on actionscript now, i thought i had a good grasp on it, but i really don't, still, i'm glad i was able to sort this out myself, it's given me a real buzz

Peace!