Best way to transition menus

Hello,

I’m a new comer to programming in AS3 and have hit a problem involving menu transitions. Please see the attached image. I have dynamically created swatches that show random colors into the bottom part of the screen. Clicking on these swatches changes the house color. I would like to be able to click on the giant box on the top part of the screen to change menus.

I have everything in the first frame. I thought I could use gotoAndStop(2) and rewrite the code for the new menu…however, the old menu from frame 1 persists through the timeline. Is there a better way of doing this?

I thought about having each menu being its own swf, but can pressing a button on one swf change the properties of another swf?

Thanks for the help,

Aaron