Control on my time line

[Paul Manlove]

I would like to have more control over how my site animates. At this point I can control how it will animate in(gotoAndPlay), but would like to be able to control how the page will animate out. I believe I will have to set up a "variable" on the first frame??? And is that in combination with a "case" statement??? Is there a good tutorial out there?

Please help.

all the best,

Paul

[Ask The Geezer]

What do you mean by page? The html page with the movie on it, or like a movie clip or loaded swf inside the same main movie? You want it to fade or something then load the next one?

[Paul Manlove]

Geezer,

I mean the base level of my swf movie. For example, with differnet instance names set up on the base level of a flash file I want to control the animation out of one instance name on the time line to the next. So yeah, like a fade out, or create a situation were the play head does not just "jump" to the next page.

best,

Paul

[Ask The Geezer]

Here's an example of one that will slide 4 different movie clips out, depending on which button you press. The animation could be anything though, like a fade.

[Paul Manlove]

Geezer,

Thank you for all of your help. I look forward to working with this code.

best,

Paul

[Ask The Geezer]

That's just one way of doing it. There are other ways if you wanted to load external swf's into the main movie.

[Paul Manlove]

Geezer,

At this point all the action will be happening within the same swf, but I would be interesting in knowing how to work with the external loads for speed.

best,

Paul

[Ask The Geezer]

Here's a zip with the main movie and one of the 4 or 5 external movies so you can see how it works. They are just too big to attach all of the externals.