Scene Problems

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I’m currently making a biography viewer for my band, the preloaders in scene 1, the menu is in scene 4 (i have no idea why it jumped 3 scenes) and the individual scenes are after that, i have made one individual bio and added
on (press) {gotoAndPlay(“4”);

}
to the background so that it will go back to the main menu but what happens is when i click on the background it takes me back to scene 4 for a split second then plays from scene 1, does anybody know how i can sort out this issue?

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The easiest way to navigate scenes is to give the first frame of each scene a label and instead of using a frame number, put the frame name. For example, in your bio scene, label the first frame “bio” and call that in your button instead of a frame number. Just on whatever layer you put your label on, make sure you put a blank keyframe after it or else it’ll label all the frames that name.

To be honest though scenes aren’t the best way to be putting your website together. It’d be better to be making your pages individual .swf’s and calling them into your main file that has your navigation and all. Scenes will work but as far as loading time with your page, it may become a problem.

Alan

3

thanks for the help :slight_smile:

4

Cool, hope it helps.

5

Any tutorials online that show this technique of loading SWFs instead of scenes? And why is this any more efficient size-wise than scenes?

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Yep here’s what i used to learn how to do it.
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/preloader_transition.htm

and there’s another one, i’ll look for it.

Alan

EDIT++

Here’s an even better one, finally got around to finding it
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/transitions.htm

Sorry, didn’t see the other question. The reason this is better than using scenes is becaust of loading. If you use scenes, you have one big thing that has to be all loaded at one time. This is good for CDRoms (as i learned the hard way) but is not good for the web. By using individual .swfs for the pages, you can make it easier to manage and update, as well as have a preloader at the beginning of the pages. Scenes also have a tendency to get a little buggy depending on how you’re using them. Both have advantages and disadvantages.