Help: problems with adding navi.swf to main .swf file

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ok folks … this is basically a question to the tutorial “create your own flash site”… i hope you can help…

my problem is the following… i just dont now how to correctly ad a .swf file to an .fla with all the buttons and animations still working; i created a navigation menu and published it as navi.swf… this swf works perfectly well…

–> http://magic01.piranho.de/navi_main.html

but… i need to ad this navi.swf to my main.fla where the background is stored and the content sites will be displayed…

i tried it with File->Import->Import to library… well this works… but when i want to drag&drop the navigation.swf into my main.fla the problems start…

the buttons dont work anymore… cause they are no buttons anymore… but plain text stored as groups;

when i publish the main.swf the buttons dont work either…

–> http://magic01.piranho.de/main.html

i tried and tried but i simply cant get it working…

so… my question is:
how to ad a .swf file correctly to an .fla file so that all the animations still work…

thx for any help in advance…

yours fightalone

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okay, i usually build my navigation into my main flash movie/.swf… but you can do it however the heck you like…

if your nav. is external why not load it into a blank container movie clip on your stage?

make a box the same pixel dimensions as your nav system .swf convert it to an mc and give it an upper left corner registration point.

then use code like this to load that external (nav system) .swf into your main .swf:

_root.myemptycontainermovieclip.loadMovie(“mynavsystem.swf”);

hope that helps…

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thx for the quick reply…

i supose building the nav directly in the main .fla is the best solution anyway… dont ask me why i never tried… :wink: i just was fixed on this tutorial and doing it like it was proposed… anyway… thx for the hint…

yours sincerly

fightalone