Set Movie Clip for:Stop

Sorry i have to ask so many questions but please excuse my ignorance. I feel like a Pre-Rookie!!!

- My first question is if i want my movie to stop at I have to set it to stop (for example at my home page) on the (2nd) Frame because when I wanted to stop it on the first frame I got a message that the (stop) function would probably be ignored! Is this correct!

- My second question is if I have say 5navigation buttons on my home page that goes to various pages of my site. Will i have to create an individual movie file for each button.

example buttons: HOme, contact, service, about, portfolio. will I need to make 5 different movie files for these different buttons of my site?

That is how I do it to keep the initial loading time to a minimum. Make your menu, Put an empty movie clip where you want them main content, and have the buttons load that movie with the individual swf files.

1st: correct, the stop command on the first frame will most likely be ignored

2nd: NO you have to make 5 individual frames, that you should name by going into edit>list of key frame then select one and name it then unclick it,
Use this command for the button

Code:

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on (release){
gotoAndStop ("home")
}

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Originally Posted by Ultra Pulse

2nd: NO you have to make 5 individual frames, that you should name by going into edit>list of key frame then select one and name it then unclick it,
Use this command for the button

Code:

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on (release){
gotoAndStop ("home")
}

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You can but if you want to anything complex using loaded movies is a much better way to go.

1. Intial page loads faster
2. Easier to update single areas
3. bound to be a few more good reason just can't think of them now.. :p

Ok i got this to work using the code:

Code:
on (release){
gotoAndStop ("home")
}

But blanius I wasn't clear on the instructions you gave...

Quote:

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You can but if you want to anything complex using loaded movies is a much better way to go

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Could explain this once more! Or give instructions on how to do this!

thanks guys for all your help!

Well what he means is if you wanna do something more complex, and use the less amount of space, you have to load individual SWF files.

I never used that code so I wouldn't know about it.

here is a demo of what blanius is talking about. it is several swfs that form a web page.