Button Linkage

[com_craze]

Hi, I'm having a bit of a problem here. I am currently creating my
flash site and have almost completed it. I have also created the buttons. The
problem which I have is linking one flash page to another. How do I do that.
How do I create a link from one page to another.Thanks.

[rlc5611]

what do you mean by "page"? are these separate SWF files?

if they are separate SWF files, do you want to keep your buttons when changing pages?

[com_craze]

yes they are different swf's. that's not my only problem now, i want to create
a preloadr but i do not know how to create one, i've checked through the net
for tutorials but there is nothing useful but i do know that it requries two
scenes.

[rlc5611]

First of all, nothing in Flash requires scenes for any reasons. My experience
is that it is a big mistake to even talk about scenes - much less use them. A
preloader is just an animation to give the user something to look at while the
movie is loading. For reasons well documented in the posts, I make a preloader
in its own movie. If this is the first SWF you load, then it goes to level 0.
It then loads your next SWF. When you load new SWF's you load them to levels.
Have your preloader load the navigation SWF to level 1
(loadMovieNum("navigation.swf",1) for example.

Your buttons that load other SWF's load their corresponding SWF's to higher
levels.

button 1's script could be:

on(release) {
loadMovieNum("first.swf",2); //loads at level 2
}

button 2's script could be:

on(release) {
loadMovieNum("first.swf",3); //loads at level 3 if you do not want to replace
the movie at level 2
}

or

on(release) {
loadMovieNum("first.swf",2); //replaces the movie at level 2
}

Have you done a search in this forum on preloaders? It seems it is one of the
most widely discussed topics. I am surprised you found nothing.

[com_craze]

Yes, I have tried searching through the forums but there is nothing which suits
my needs. Now the thing is, I have managed to create my loader, the problem is
this: I have a continue button on my loader. This button is supposed to link
to my main page but when I test my entire movie, I noticed that it keeps going
back to my preloader and my main page doesn't load up.
I tried using the action command

getURL("http://www.parrainfoweb.com/index1.html");

but it doesn't work and I also made sure that it is not on loop.What went
wrong. I tried some tutorials and followed and i did but it still goes back to
my preloader.

[rlc5611]

I plugged your URL (i.e. [url]http://www.parrainfoweb.com/index1.html[/url]) directly into
my browser and I got a preloader. If you click on the "continue" in that movie,
it changes to

[url]http://www.parrainfoweb.com/index.html[/url]

so it is changing the URL. Clicking on the Continue in the preloader with the
black background does nothing.

which also appears to be a preloader. Are you sure you uploaded the SWF file
as well as the HTML?

[com_craze]

yes I am sure