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"Flash 5 help please"

ok, i'm making a flash website, I don't want to have to use urls, well, just one - the website domain.

anyway, i've made all the pages, but......how do I make it in one movie clip???? I want to be able to use it offline if you know what I mean, so i can click on a button and it takes the user to another page????

ok, yet another problem, there aren't any tutorials for this, yet it's used a bit.

can someone tell me how to fade an image? with text i've chosen the hard way and made seperate frames with the text changing colour (which i did manually) there must be an easier way i'm sure, but with images, how do I fade them without using another software program and saving the faded images, um, ok? thanks.

Right, there's my email address;

[email protected]

Send me your .fla file, and I'll have a look for you.

ok, sounds easy....but.
i've done all that, I tried:

on(press)
goandplay

but it's a three stage button, so I tried: on(release) too

I put stop(); all around the script, but yet again it didn't stop, well, it did, but on the last frame.

so far, i've got:

frame1:

buttons, music, background images, text...etc

frame2:

some text

TEST MOVIE:

all I get is the music and the second frame text, I don't see anything from the first frame.

I also get this when debugging: Scene=Scene 1, Layer=button-home, Frame=1: Line 1: Statement must appear within on handler stop();

not surpringly I have no idea what it means, but thanks for your help.

For the other problem of it not stopping on each frame.........

Put this command at the very bottom of your actionscript on each frame you would like it to stop;

stop();

It was really that easy :D

Right, what you need to do is this.......

Put all the seperate pages into different frames, any gap between them or whatever, then simply make buttons on each page which link to the other frames. The syntax you need is.....

on (Press) {
gotoAndPlay(2);
}

The 2 in the above syntax can be changed to any frame number required. Obviously you would need to put this onto every button...........

ok, i've done that, not sure if it works because of this next problem.

all the frames and layers are linked together, with blank keyframes, so when I test it, it's played like a movie, therefore not giving me enough time to click on the button, I would slow it down but that ruins the animations...etc

:D

oops, ok, what i've done, my buttons are already on seperate layers, I tried them on one layer and they all seemed to work as one, so everythings on it's own layers now (pretty much) ok, i'll get working on it, see how it turns out.

if I understood it like I think I did, then thanks, it's sounds reasonably easy :D thanks again.

I would put the buttons and banner on seperate layers, and each "page" that you have created onto a seperate layer.

It shouldn't be difficult to create a new layer, then copy and paste the only frames you need into that layer. For the buttons and banner, make sure that the frames go right to the end of the whole movie so that you see them all the time, but your actual "pages" should be in the middle of the movie.

Does that make sense?

cool! thankyou, it works well, but my new problem, although it's on the same thing, I don't want to have to load the same page over and over again (e.g. menu buttons and mini banner) what my plan is, theres a huge space in the middle of the page, I want this to change when the user clicks on the button, to save space and time, so how can i do what you've just said, changing the frame, but just changing one layer? is this possible? http://mrs.netfirms.com/website_template.gif