Dynamically switching scenes in flash w/ actionscript
is it possible to control what scene the movie goes to based on which button the user clicked? I was thinking something along the lines of
user clicks button1,
as the actions for the button:
ON Click: set variable Sceneto = Monkey
goto and play scene 21 in current scene
monkey is the name of a scene
then in frame... say 35
how do i make it so that it goes to the scene that is in the variable defined above. can some1 plz help?
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JeevesBond posted this at 09:44 — 8th August 2003.
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Although I haven't done any Flash for ages I believe this is possible. Although it's a little easier than the method you've described...Unfortunately I'm at my day job right now so can't go in to Flash and check, I'll have a look tonight if I get time
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Megan posted this at 13:43 — 8th August 2003.
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This is excactly how the navbar on my flash site works, if I understand what you're talking about. What it does is when the user clicks on a button, it plays a section in the current scene and then goes to another scene based on which button was clicked (if you look at it that's how the wipe in/wipe out works). I'll have to wait until I'm home to check the code for that, but I think it just sets a variable and then in the last frame it says got to and play (variable).
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ianrules posted this at 15:12 — 8th August 2003.
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that is exactly what im talking about....
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Megan posted this at 01:28 — 9th August 2003.
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There could be a better way of doing this, but this is what I did:
This is in the button, setting a variable (in this case "samples") for the script to use later on. goto being the name of the variable.
on (release) {goto = "samples";
gotoAndPlay (205);
}
Then this is in the last frame of the scene (since it goes to frame 205 and plays to the end)
if (goto == "websites") {gotoAndPlay ("websites", 1);
} else if (goto == "samples") {
gotoAndPlay ("samples", 1);
} else if (goto == "about") {
gotoAndPlay ("about", 1);
} else if (goto == "resume") {
gotoAndPlay ("resume",1);
} else if (goto == "home") {
gotoAndPlay ("main page", 1);
}
That's it! Pretty simple. Oh, and be careful if you put your navbar in a symbol - you'll need to go _root or _parent (forget exactly) to go up to the main level before sending it to the next scene.
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forwardtrends posted this at 02:00 — 11th August 2003.
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or just do this..
make each section a different .swf file.
make a black (empty) movie clip on your main (nav) stage (Positioned in the top left corner of where you want your sections loaded) - name it loader.
put an action on each button like so (changing the name of "yoursection.swf" to the name of the section file for each corresponding button)..
---
on (release) {
unloadMovie("loader");
loadMovie("yoursection.swf", "loader");
}
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bang your done - quick and painless - no need for extensive frameage.
make sure the sction file is exactly the size you want it (use masking and preloader to make it clean)
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