creating a back button

[GooeyHand]

i'm pretty new to the whole flash thing, and i'm building a site that works like this; the user clicks on a button located on a menu, on that button there is a movie clip which will change the users stage and play that animation which i have eventuatly made stop at the end, to avoid looping. now my problem is that i would like to have a back button at the end so that when the user clicks it, they will be sent back to the original screen before the movie clip. is this possible? or how should i have set up my site to make it work? thanks in advance.

 

[wangbar]

You can do this with labels. Set up a layer which has keyframes at the points you want to get to and place a label like "home", "part 2" or whatever's meaningful in the appropriate places. Labels can be entered in the properties panel in MX or frames panel in Flash 5.

Then to get to the frame you need add something like this...

gotoAndStop("home"

or maybe...

gotoAndPlay("part 2" Slainte

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[GooeyHand]

um i dont know if i just mis understand, but i've tried that, and it seems to just restart the one movie clip again. so instead of it going back to the frame labeled "Home" it will just go back to the first frame of the movie clip it is already in. is there a tag i can maybe add to the script that involves "whenmoviefinishes_goto ()" or something like this?

 

[oldnewbie]

If you're targeting the main timeline, from movie clips, use what Wangbar suggested but add _root to it:

_root.gotoAndStop("home"
_root.gotoAndPlay("part2"

The frames you want to go to, should be labeled home or part2. Regards,

 

[GooeyHand]

thanks fellas.