Hi folks,
I’ve been out of the flash scene since flash 4 and the upcoming of actionscripting, so I’m very new to the scripting stuff.
My sister asked me to create a site with photo galleries for her upcoming baby and her baby that was born last year. I’ve created a main swf file containing some playful buttons (a sun, a star and a moon). When you click a button it should go to a gallery of the baby in question.
When I started, I tried using scenes for the different galleries, but after reading up on these forums, I noticed scenes are not the way to go, so I want to split the project up into multiple swf file. I would have a main swf file with the buttons and from there, when you click a button, it should load the gallery swf file. For the galleries I’m incorporating the simpleviewer because it has a nice and easy to use interface.
Now I’m bumping into some problems. First off I tried to load the swf files into an empty movie clip I created through actionscript. The problem with that was that when you click on a button, it will load the swf file, but the swf gets stacked on top of the main swf so you can see the background through it and all the buttons of the main swf are still active. That’s clearly not the way to go, so I started trying out with loading the external swf files onto the root (_root.loadMovie( “swffile”) ). This way the loaded swf file is the only one there, you don’t see the main swf on the background and the gallery works fine.
But then a new problem announces itself. I want to have a continues background music playing. So I started reading the volume control slider tutorial and I really liked the interface. Now I want to incorporate the volume control into the whole project, so the music keeps playing when I switch swf files and the volume control also keeps on top of everything.
Is there an easy way for me to accomplish this? Any help will be greatly appreciated because the baby’s due in a couple of weeks and things should get up and running quite fast.
Kind regards,
Joris
