[font=verdana][size=2][color=red]**I know, I know you guys are getting sick of seeing me post questions here week after week. I swear, I’m not trying to bug anyone or have someone doing all of the work for me, I really am trying to learn this darn program. A little rundown first:
Computer(G4 iMac Flat-Panel)
Version(Flash MX)
Ok, just had to get that down first. Ok so since I was having problems with my scrollbar(please reference my other post here) I decided to try to make my own custom scoller. So I did that using the tutorial that I got from [url=http://http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/Interactivity/Simple_S-Alan_Wis-922/index.php]here. Ok so I made the scroller from the tutorial and since it came out so well, I decided to use it in my site that I’m trying to create.
Now here’s the problem: When I load my external .swf into my main movie, the scroller that I created for the external .swf attaches itself to my main movie. In addition to that, I had made buttons on my external .swf that when pressed would load external .txt files into my external .swf;Those buttons no longer work as well. I kinda figured that based on the actionscript that I was using from the tutorial from Flashkit, that the scroller was attaching itself to the main movie because the script uses _root in the code and I took that as the external .swf was defining _root as the main movie and not _root as in itself(sounds confusing I know!). Anyway, when i looked at the output window in Flash I kinda noticed the whole level thing which I had never bothered to learn I admit. So i went through each of my movies(I have the one main .swf and two external .swf’s that I’m trying to load in) and tried to define a level for each movie like so:
_level0 = "indexFlash" + ".swf";
_level1 = "home" + ".swf";
_level3 = "about" + ".swf";
Then I went into the Actionsripts for my scrollbars slider and path and changed each instance of _root into the particular level and then changed the load paths for my external .txt files to correspond with each level, but when I went to test it, now nothing works as it should. I’m really trying to get ahang of this actionscript;I know that it can be a very powerful ally in my designing, but until I master it, will one of you nice guys show me what I’m doing wrong? I have attached the main .fla and the two external .fla in .zip format in case anyone wants to look at the hard code as well as the two of the three external .txt files that I was trying to load into my “about.swf” movie. Thanks again!!!**[/color][/size][/font] 
