Timeline Help

[cowboy71 webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

Hey all
I have a Quiz type project I'm putting together for a school project and I need some advice on how to set up the navigation. Ok, the nav was made in flash and has 10 different links to 10 different sections within director. Everytime a link is clicked a curtain comes down and covers one section, and opens to reveal another. Now I'm not sure how to set up the timeline with that. Each link has to go to a different section and I'm getting confused how to make that curtain cover that particular section each time before going to antoher link. I hope that's not to confusing.
THx

[Rob Dillon]

The curtain is a transition device, yes? You're planning on doing the
curtain in Director, not Flash, yes?

If you have your timeline set up with markers for each of these
question areas and you have the Flash navigation extended across all of
these frames then you probably have a "go to the frame" function set in
a frame script at each of the marker locations.

If you were to build the curtain animation in a series of frames after
that "go to the frame" location, then you could use the Flash button
event to trigger the curtain animation. That could happen in a couple
of ways: you could write a function in Director to: 1. store the new
marker name in a global variable, tell the playback head to move ahead
through the curtain animation. You would also then need a function at
the end of that animation to tell the playback head to jump to the
marker name stored in the global variable. Or, you could write all of
that code in the Flash movie and use getURL to send the command to the
Director movie.

Another method is to build a filmloop of the curtain animation, Have
the Flash button call a Director function that replaces a static
graphic member for the filmloop member and then tells the playback head
to move to the new marker when the filmloop has finished.

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Rob
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