Transitions Between External SWFs Tutorial

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

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: