making buttons link from scene to scene

[webfodder]

I created buttons. I put them in a graphic that is to be used as the main menu. I put the main menu graphic (with the buttons) in all of the scenes of my flash file. But, I can't figure out how to assign actions to the buttons to make them link to the different scenes in the file. How do you do this?

 

[oldnewbie]

Don't understand what you're saying exactly with your "I put them in a graphic that is to be used as the main menu"...

Have you tried a righ-click on your buttons, selecting Actions from the popup menu which will open the Object Actions window where you can assign on actions to your buttons such as:

on (press) {
gotoAndPlay ("Scene 2", 1);
}

Depending on the manipulations you've done (if your buttons are within a movie clip and maybe even from within a graphic symbol) you may need to alter your button's coding in this matter.
You should label (select the first frame of Scene 2, and name it in the Frame panel -> start2 for example) the first frame of the targeted scene and use the following:

on (press) {
_root.gotoAndPlay ("start2"
}

Regards,

ldnewbie