A last few for the day

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as i have studied today i came across three more questions i had to ask myself and in asking myself i found that i wasn’t sure… so i thought perhaps imput from you guys would be beneficial…

  1.  which is a better way to "develop" a sites code...

 a)     for each button, have the action associated load seperate .swf files as the seperate "pages"...

 b)     or... for each button, have the associated action "goto" another scene within the main timeline?...

would this depend on the size of the independent “pages” of the site?

  1.  say i build a movie clip with the navigation buttons for my site in it...

if my root movie was blank until a frame event “called” the movie clip with the nav buttons… would the buttons be able to function?..

3)how would i create a simple, non-working, form page… (it’s for a school project… the form only has to have user editable text feilds… it doesn’t have to “send” the information anywhere…)

a note:

i’m sure some have read over my posts and thought… “just go try these things out yourself, moron!”… well, here’s the deal…

i work a job away from my computer during the day… but i am using that time to study… by reading and viewing tutorials and looking over these forums… the questions i post are ones that i hope would provide me with beneficial answers so when i return home i can put into operation what i have thought about, studied over, and seen in responses to my questions during the day…

so please don’t hate on me to quick… i want to learn… but i don’t settle for learning it over the course of months… i want to learn it as it comes to mind… and i usually do…

thanks for your time…

oasis

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Well I’m not going to call you a moron for asking these questions because they’re pretty legit questions that plenty of others would ask too so I’m going to try to answer them the best I can.

  1. When I started out building sites, I used the multiple scenses method and used the gotoAndPlay action. This method was fast, but in the end, the result was a file size that was a bit too much. I later switched over to the loadMovie method and it was a bit more trickier than the gotoAndPlay method because you had to build individual swf movies for each section. The benefit of using the loadMovie method is that the viewer doesn’t have to load your entired site all at once, the viewer only downloads whatever the click on. The result of this is a shorter wait and it also reduces bandwidth consumption too.

  2. The buttons should work as long as it targets the main timeline or _root. So if you have _root added to your button actions then there shouldn’t be a problem.

  3. As for the mock up form, you can easily create one by using the text tool to create the text fields. Just click and drag out how long you want it then go into the properties panel and on the drop down menu, select “input text” so that the viewer is able to actually type stuff in. As for the buttons, I’m sure you’re able to do that, just create some dummy buttons.

Well I hope that answers your questions, if you’re still confused then continue asking questions and we’ll continue trying to answer them. Good luck =)

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excellent… thank you…