Hello, please bear with me as I explain what I’m trying to do for a travel website:
On my main timeline, I have two frames, 1) preloader; 2) the website movie clip.
The website movie clip has 5 frames, one frame per page (e.g., fr. 1= Home; fr. 2 = Destinations; fr. 3 = FAQ, etc).
On fr. 1 of the website movie clip, I have a short cut to go to different parts of fr. 2, which is Destinations. For example, I have a list of Destinations to click on from the Home page, like “Africa.”
All the contents of fr. 2, the Destinations page, is dynamically loaded. I have a separate swf called “destinations.swf” containing about 50 different locations, assigned to 50 different frames. (i.e., fr. 1 = Hawaii; fr. 10 = Norway, fr. 30 = Africa, etc).
Once you are in a Destination (e.g., frame 10 of “destinations.swf”), I call out to different pieces of contents onto the info boxes I have for each destination. For example, going to fr. 30, Africa, will call out to “africafacts.swf” and “africamap.swf”).
The Destinations Page (fr. 2 of website timeline) also has the destinations shortcut, and all the above functions work properly without problem. What I can’t do is make the shortcut from the Home Page (fr. 1 of website timeline) load specific frames of an external file, “destinations.swf”.
Note: I’m not using multiple Scenes or Levels - should I be? I’m a designer and never really learned how best to use Scenes or Levels; have done without using them this whole time. (gasp?)
Here’s what I want to do.
When you click on “Africa” from my Home page, I want it to:
- go to Fr. 2 of the website movie clip
- load “destinations.swf”
- go to the “Africa” frame number (e.g., fr. 30) on “destinations.swf”
I can go to Fr. 2 of the website movieclip, load the “destinations.swf” just fine. I can’t get the loaded movieclip to go to a specific frame according to each destination (e.g., fr. 10 if Norway was clicked on the short cut; fr. 30 if Africa). I can only get it to load and play the frame 1 of “destinations.swf.”
I’m not sure if I’m phrasing this correctly, but how do I call out/load a specific frame number on an external movieclip?
Sorry for the meandering explanation - I have a feeling that my architecture is wack, but I’d really like to avoid having to reconstruct the basic structure of the site.
Thank you for your time and help in advance!
Macgirl
