Novice scripter needs direction re: animated header

programming flash
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First off… I’m very inexperienced with Action script, so I hope this question isn’t innapropriate or a waste of anyones time. :slight_smile:

I’m also pretty new to flash, so bear with me… I’ve made a header for a template I’m putting together, sort of as a learning experience… I would like to add some basic animation to occur when the buttons are pressed. However the buttons seem to behave differently based on where I’m loading them from. When I open them locally, my animation seems to work exactly as I intended. However, after uploading them to my webspace, my tidy scripting has gone to total cr4p. When I view them online with Mozilla, everything is fine, but with IE it’s completely buggered. I have made sure to clear my cache, I’ve ensured I have the right files online, but it refuses to function as it should. Any idea why my flash would behave differently on a webserver? It’s incredibly basic AS.

My second question is very closely related to the first. Instead of what I have created, I would like to have one animation play when a button is pressed (centered title appears) then when a second button is pressed, the first animation finishes (disapears) before the second animation commences.

Anyways… I’ll provide a link so you can see what I’m talking about in the first question, and perhaps get a basic idea of what I’m hoping to do (the second question)

      [http://members.shaw.ca/spdev/WhatAView/](http://members.shaw.ca/spdev/WhatAView/)
  
     Please be kind :) the main content is just simple placeholders to ensure the buttons are loading the pages correctly, my only intention is to get the header functioning as I want...
    
    Any ideas are welcome, I've hit a bit of a wall and I'm unsure how to accomplish the desired effect.
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I’ve managed to side step the first problem by loading the text into an empty movie clip. However, I’m still stumped as to how I might acheive a fade effect prior to loading the next text movie when another button is pressed. I was toying with telltargets and gotoandplays inside of onpress then the secondary loadmovie onrelease… I have no idea if this is even remotely close to what would be required for such a thing, and I wasn’t having much luck… Hopefully some kind soul will find the time to provide a little insight into which direction I should proceed.

Thanks!

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Perhaps this would be better suited in the Action Script forum? I don’t mean to be a bother, but in another 12 hours this will be so buried no one will see it.

I’m starting to think this would require some kind of conditional loop.

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Wooooo

Thanks so much for all the help ladies and gents.

Please excuse me while I hurl myself into traffic.

P.S. Mods, feel free to delete/lock this thread, I doubt it’s going to do me any good in future.