I am having some difficulty in structuring my flash file and was hoping someone could give me some help or direct me to relevant resources...I've found the most efficiant paradigm for structuring my projects is to use the main time line as a flow chart that outlines the site and includes navigation structure, declares global variables, functions etc...but does not contain any actual content. This allows the user to navigate non-linearly through the file without having to preload all of the actual content. When navigating to a specific portion of the site (e.g. a named frame in the main timeline) I load that pages respective content as a separate flash file. My problem is that when I navigate from a frame on the main timeline to a previous frame (i.e from frame 10 to frame 5)the play head, rather than jumping back to frame 5, appears to "play" to frame 5 via starting over from frame 1. All of the assets in frames 1-4 loads as well. Yes, the playhead navigates to frame 5, but the program doesn't seem to behave the same way as director, meaning the "gotoAndPlay" command does not appear to "jump" non-linearly. Interestingly, navigating to subsequent frames (i.e. frame 1 to frame 5) does not exhibit the same behavior (content does not load), in spite of the fact that the playhead is traveling forward over the same action script. Any ideas?
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