Let me explain. I’m building a Flash site, based on the “Creating a Flash Site” tutorial. I tried to make it a little more elaborate, but ran into problems doing so. So: there’s a staging area with an empty movie clip. Each page of the website is a seperate swf which gets called into the MC. Each swf has an intro animation, a stopping point, and an exit animation. When the swfs get called in, they play up to the stopping point, and of course stop. So my challenge is: if you’re viewing pg 1, when you hit the navigation button for pg 2 it should finish playing the rest of the pg1 swf before it loads the pg2 swf. Because my animations are action scripted, I don’t even have a keyframe to specify. So how do I get it to finish playing pg1 before it loads pg2?
I’ve tried using the “_global” command, and it works great from the first frame of the swfs, but I need it to be able to communicate from frame 15 that the scripted animation is finished, and send that back to the main staging movie. That information doesn’t seem to be making it out. I know variables can’t travel backwards on a timeline, but I was hoping it wouldn’t matter since its going to a different timeline.
I would appreciate some help on this… I’m pretty inexperienced but I’ve been banging my head on this for a while. I can post my scripts if it would help.
Thanks!
