Jumping scenes from movie clip

[YAGOTMILK]

I tried searching the Help Forums first, but I kept getting errors so I'm just gonna ask for help here.

I have a navbar for my flash site, and its in its own movie clip. What I need to happen is when the user clicks on a button in the navbar the whole thing jumps to a different scene. I tried using the basic on release goto and play scene name, but that doesn't seem to work.

Does anyone know what I can do to make this work if it can be done at all??

Thanks!!

[senocular]

use frame labels in your scenes and
_root.gotoAndPlay("label")

[Inflicted]

I advice you not to use scenes.
Nobody does. Load externally.
Here's a tut:
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/full_site.htm

[YAGOTMILK]

how does _root.gotoAndPlay("label") and how would I implement it. This is the actionscript I was trying to use

on (release) {
gotoAndPlay("Project Approach", 2);
}

[Scorpion990]

Use Scenes.
I do.

_root.gotoAndPlay("Scene 2", 1) will NOT work, because there is a bug in flash.

I have had problems with this too, and I worked out a solution:

code:

---

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {

		tellTarget ("_parent") {

			nextScene();

	}

}

---

You're welcome

[Scorpion990]

Originally posted by YAGOTMILK
how does _root.gotoAndPlay("label") and how would I implement it. This is the actionscript I was trying to use

on (release) {
gotoAndPlay("Project Approach", 2);
}

Ermm.. That will not work, even if you coded it right.

When you use gotoAndPlay, use EITHER a label OR a scene.
Scene:
gotoAndPlay("Scene name in quotes", frame num without quotes);

Label:
gotoAndPlay("label, in quotes");

[YAGOTMILK]

oooook, I'm still confused. For onClipEven (Frame)...what does that mean exactly? And what is "_parent" and what if I don't want to go to the next sene? What if I want to go to a specific scene that isn't the next scene.

Sorry for all the questions but I'm trying to learn this so in the furture I can do it on my own.

Thanks.

[YAGOTMILK]

Project Approach is the name of one of my scenes. Sorry, I should have made that clear.