Flash 2004 Button Actions

[lou342246]

I am trying to create a slide show of pictures for my company. Each picture will be on it's own scene. I created two buttons: Next and Back. I converted each of these words to a symbols with button behaviors. Although when I go assigning the action prevScene or nextScene to these buttons nothing happens. I get errors that are reported. I really liked using the Actions in Flash MX because you could just select the scene you wanted from a drop down menu and it inserted all the code for you. (I think that there is suppose to be more than just something like nextScene(); displayed when you assign actions to a button. Does anyone know any good tutorials or know how to solve my problem? I looked online and could only find tutorials that told you have to change the UP, Over, Down, Hit instances.

Thanks!

 

[pixl8r]

on(release){
   nextScene();
}

or

on(release){
   gotoAndPlay("SceneName",1); //(scene,frameNumber)
}

Hope it helps.

Wow JT that almost looked like you knew what you were doing!

 

[oldnewbie]

Why not use different frames in one scene, rather than several scenes?
Otherwise, try...

on(release){
    _root.nextScene();
}
// Or...
on(release){
    _root.prevScene();
}

 

[lou342246]

Thank you both for your input. The reason I'm using scenes then just one scene with a bunch of frames is because of organization. I feel that I can be more organized when I use scenes. What I'm making is a slide show of 50 pictures that fad in during the first 15 frames of each scene.

I tried both of your input and I could only get the folowing code to work though:

on(release){
gotoAndPlay("SceneName",1); //(scene,frameNumber)
}

The problem with this code is that I have to go into each scene's actions that I move around to fix the order. I rather just have it play the next scene that it below it in the scene list than to have to edit actions every time I change the order.

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This code works but stops on the first frame of the next scene:

on(release){
nextScene();
}


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I couldn't get this one to do anything:

on(release){
_root.nextScene();
}
// Or...
on(release){
_root.prevScene();
}

Thanks for both of your feedback. Let me know I set it up wrong for these to not work like I wanted them to.

Lou

 

[oldnewbie]

If this...
on(release){
nextScene();
}
...Works, then use it. But you have to understand that nextScene() & prevScene() (like nextFrame() & prevFrame()) are not play actions. They move the playhead and stop it on that frame or scene.
Try adding a play(); action on the first frame of each scene.

 

[lou342246]

I tried adding

on(release){
nextScene();
}

to each of my next buttons and

on(release){
prevScene();
}

to each of my back buttons. I have the play() function in the first frame of each scence and a stop function on the 20th frame of each scene (these two fuctions are on a seperate layer named actions)

But now my slideshow is skipping scenes! Will someone please take a look at it?

http://www.lindseymarshall.net/B_Slideshow/

Thanks!

 

[oldnewbie]

You would have to save a copy of your .fla in a MX only format, not MX2004. Use Save As... and change the Document type in the Save As... window.

 

[lou342246]

I got it figured out. Thanks oldnewbie for your help! I greatly appreciate it! I met my dead line