# Transitions Between External SWFs Tutorial

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/transitions-between-external-swfs-tutorial/138291>\
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**Created:** [February 21, 2005, 6:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/transitions-between-external-swfs-tutorial/138291 "2005-02-21T18:13:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![JO3Y](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7cd45c/32.png) [@JO3Y](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/JO3Y)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2005, 6:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/transitions-between-external-swfs-tutorial/138291/1 "2005-02-21T18:13:55Z")

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i was looking over the “Transitions Between External SWFs” Tutorial [font=Verdana][size=1][color=#666666]  
[size=2][color=black]by Voetsjoeba :: 21 February 2004[/color][/size]  
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Great tutorial by the way! if you haven’t read it yet, do so.  
[http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/transitions.htm](http://http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/transitions.htm)

i’m using buttons with downstates which work fine with the outro animations but get confused with the intro animations.

the buttons, are old fashioned and, run a timeline so i was thinking there should be some simple solution. some way\*\* to disable the buttons during the intro animations?

**some way to check if the container movie is** less than \*\*midframe. if so, move the button to its null frame.  
in the first frame of the buttons timeline i was thinking something like…

if (\_root.container.\_currentframe \< \_root.container.midframe) {gotoAndPlay(_disabledframe_);  
}else if (\_root.container.\_currentframe \>= \_root.container.midframe) {gotoAndPlay(_begin button animation_);  
}  
and this for the "_disabledframe"_…

if (\_root.container.\_currentframe \>= \_root.container.midframe) {gotoAndPlay(_begin button animation_);  
}else if (\_root.container.\_currentframe \< \_root.container.midframe) {gotoAndPlay(_disabledframe_);  
}

or something like that i dont know… do you? :puzzled: