I’m involved with four other persons in creating a website in Flash CS3 that will need to load external swf files by means of buttons. All of us are struggling to learn ActionScript 3, and not having an easy time of it (not being in the programming mind, so to speak), so we need some help.
What we have is a main page that has several buttons on it, which when pressed go to a frame on the timeline and load up a new section of the interface. This works fine so far. The problem comes when the new part of the interface loads, with its own set of buttons that need to be linked to external swf files. Each of us in the project will be making swf files for it and they will all be held in a common directory. What I can’t seem to do is get the swf files to load, and in fact I’m having trouble with the buttons in the secondary part of the interface (the part in the timeline in the main file). When I put in any actionscript to try to control or designate these buttons, create a function, etc, the buttons in the main window don’t work anymore, and I don’t know why.
So I have two problems:
1. Getting buttons in the secondary part to work without breaking the entire file,
2. loading the external swf files by using these buttons in the secondary part.
oh, and
3. I have to have it finished and working by Friday (Nov. 7).
Can anyone help with this? It seems to me that this ought to be fairly straightforward and routine, but none of us can figure it out.
thank you,
Jack
