I am not extremely new to CS3 or Flash but I am not advanced by any means. Anyhow, here is what I am trying to do and I hope someone can help me out.

I have 1 SWF file that has about 10 or so scenes in it. When you go to the webpage it has an initial loading screen and then goes to the home page. (I do not allow this loading screen to load everything in the SWF because it would take far too long, I would rather get the user to the home page and let the rest load while the person is viewing that).

That said, if the user decides to click on a button too quickly before one of those scenes have been loaded then flash attempts to send the user to a scene name that of course, has not been loaded/defined yet… because of this, flash will send the user to the furthest scene loaded (or maybe it’s a random one, I am not sure nor does it matter).

What I want to happen is for flash to check if the particular scene that the user is trying to go to is loaded yet. If it is not loaded then I would like a simple movie clip symbol to play until it is loaded and then send the user to the loaded scene. From doing some research it looks like I may be able to use something like: ifFrameLoaded or _framesloaded. I am not positive if either of these is applicable but if they are how would I use them for my application? If they are not, do you have any other suggestions?

Even if one of those do work, my biggest concern is how to hault until the scene is loaded to go to (while playing a simple “loading” movie clip symbol of course).

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
Travis