Multiple Scenes

[DKL01]

Hi,

I have three scenes in a single movie. Scene # 1 has menus at the top. When I click on 1st submenu I should be able to see menus (at the top ) as well as scene # 2 below the menu bar. When I click on 2nd submenu I should be able to see menus (at the top ) as well as scene # 3 below the menu bar. This is sort of implementing tutorial. When you select a particular chapter(menu) below text will change.

I really appreciate some guidance to implement this.

Thanks

 

[oldnewbie]

Do you mean the menus (at the top) are always visible and that below those menus appear each other scene?

;-)

 

[DKL01]

Yes, menus are always visible. User should be able click on any menu at any time.

For example, when we start the application the menus should appear something like this:

Hardware (main menu )
--------------------------
Installing mouse ( sub menu)
Installing keyboard (sub menu)
Installing monotor (sub menu )

When the user clicks on "Installing mouse" the movie should dispay all the instructions to install mouse. When the user clicks on "Installing keyboard" the movie should dispay all the instructions to install keyboard.

Hope my explaination is clear.

Thanks

 

[oldnewbie]

Well either you cary your menus from scene to scene so that there always present. Or, better still, you don't use other scenes at all, and simply design the whole thing in a one scene movie ( could be as short as 1 frame) that, when menu items are pressed, call mcs (movie clips) that are displayed, scaled and whatever to fit in the lower portion of your screen.

;-)

 

[DKL01]

Thanks.

I will go with your first suggestion.
But I'm having some other problem.

When I run the movie it looks like all the scenes are coming up ( in loop ). And the movie looks flickering.

Later I selected the 1st frame in scene #1 and put
stop();

With this I was able to see on the first scene only without any flickering. But I got another problem. In scene #1 I have menus and following code:

on (press) {
_root.gotoAndPlay("Scene 3", 1);
}

But when I click on sub-menu nothing is happening ?

What could be the problem? I would be more than happy to send the fla file thorugh e-mail.

Thanks in advance.

 

[oldnewbie]

You can allways e-mail me the .fla at francoisgill@hotmail.com
No promises! But i'll see what I can do.

;-)

 

[davdesign]

hi DK

The old targetting the timeline problem rears it's head again methinks.

Try labelling the frames you're targetting, and instead of targetting the scene it's in just target the label:

on(press){
  _root.gotoandPlay("label_in_frame");
}

Should do the trick.
dave davdesign@pinkzeppelin.com

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

 

[oldnewbie]

DK, got your e-mail.
Will look at it tonight!
Meanwhile you did good when you added the stop action... Except it is now set as a comment. Remove the double "//" from the stop action and at least the movie will stop flikering. As for your other problem, Dave is probably right. Label the first or second frame of each scene and target that label, or calculate the number of frames at which scene 2 starts (2 if scene 1 only holds 1 frame) and target that frame number rather than the scene.

But as I say, will have another look at it tonight (New York time).

;-)

 

[finebrotha]

Hi,

I am trying to create a Flash movie with each scene using a different background color. I know that you can set the background color of the entire movie...which would affect the color of each scene in the movie, but how do you set the background color for each scene? (ie. scene1 has a red background, scene2 has a blackground, etc.)

In addition, in my publish settings I set Projector .exe. Once I click on the .exe file, I notice that the file menu appears. This menu allows users to rewind, play, the .exe...how do I get rid of this menu? I do not want to allow my users to select from the file menu.

Thank you in advance for you info!!! (smile)

Reggie

email: r.dean@attbi.com

 

[finebrotha]

Sorry...man, I didn't realize that I was replying to your message.