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Swish2 button and loadmovie problem - 4/29/2004 1:55:20
Hi there,
I am quite a beginner in Swish. Basically, I know how to create buttons for linking movies and I know how to load a movie to the main one. Now I have a problem. I am not sure on how to create a "Next" button in the main movie, which upons clicking, will load an external movie. After that, I want the external movie to have a "Back" button that will bring the user back to the main movie.
I know a button can be used to load an external movie but I am not sure whether another button can be placed into that external movie to link it back to the main movie.
Now I move on to another problem.
I have created navigation buttons for my Swish movie, but everytime I PLACE a button, let's say the "Next" button in a new frame, I cannot change the actions of the button. Once I changed, the original button' s actions is also changed.
The action for the first button is, let's say Goto frame2, and I want the second button (on a different frame) to have an action Goto frame3.
Does this mean that I have to create every button and put them on different lines instead of PLACEing them on the same line? Boy, this does take time! Does Swish2 have something like a library where we can place the buttons so that we do not have to recreate them everytime we want to use them?
Thank you so much! :):)
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Giomanach
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RE: Swish2 button and loadmovie problem - 4/29/2004 7:46:05
Use Layers, one for each movie, and tell the button to load that particular layer
Dan
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RE: Swish2 button and loadmovie problem - 4/29/2004 12:13:41
you must give each new button instance a unique name so that it is seperate from the other one
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RE: Swish2 button and loadmovie problem - 4/29/2004 12:28:45
Thanks a lot, guys for the replies...
Giomanach, when you say import the external movies, do you mean that I import them as a sprite? And does a "layer" simply means the frames in the movie? Or u mean sth like that of Flash's layers?
Anyway, if I import the external .swf files as sprites, they would not turn out well...cos .swf files only stored frame info, not buttons, etc. So I cannot really import them as sprites. 
Or, do you mean "layer" as the different levels where we put our loaded external movies?
Last but not least, quote:
and here's me thinking it's called a learning process
is very nice to hear 
Dan, that means I have to create different buttons (i.e., give different names to buttons) in order to do what I want. In Flash, however, I do not have to worry about these since I can just drag them out of the library. ;) Someone told me that I can achieve that in Swish, by using instances. hmm....but I need to create different instances....:)
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RE: Swish2 button and loadmovie problem - 4/29/2004 13:02:27
well i dont really know in swish..as you say, in flash you drag it out of a library, the program has only one utton stored but u have multiple instance... i assumed it was the same in swish but i dotnt really know..sorry
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RE: Swish2 button and loadmovie problem - 4/29/2004 13:14:04
its ok....i just found out how to do it...only wondering whether there is a better way to do it ;) thanks, anyway!
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RE: Swish2 button and loadmovie problem - 4/29/2004 13:15:23
Regarding my other questions...hmm...anybody knows how to solve it? Thanks in advance!
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RE: Swish2 button and loadmovie problem - 4/30/2004 8:05:08
I use swish a lot. step one on release>load movie into level one(or what ever level) the easiest way for positioning is to make the loaded movie the same size as the base movie. now in the loaded movie put your button actions to UNload movie from the same level you load into. you should always load external movies as it cuts on initial load time and only the movie the viewer wants to see is loaded.
now on to your other question... you are only placing the same button on different points of the timeline? if that is it then you can't change the button properties also. what you can do is use a sprite to change the button actions but it is way complicated to explain of i can't see your movie that you are working on.
Eric
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Giomanach
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RE: Swish2 button and loadmovie problem - 4/30/2004 8:14:40
I do a lot of "free-base" flash work, and have done something similar. I meant layers as in flash layers, I use Flash MX 2004, so I use more complex components etc and can do this a lot quicker and easier.
I would recommend you use Erics suggestion seeing as it's plain old swish:
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now on to your other question... you are only placing the same button on different points of the timeline? if that is it then you can't change the button properties also. what you can do is use a sprite to change the button actions but it is way complicated to explain of i can't see your movie that you are working on.
Dan
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RE: Swish2 button and loadmovie problem - 5/5/2004 7:11:13
thanks, guys!
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RE: Swish2 button and loadmovie problem - 5/11/2004 2:33:32
I have written...
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I have created a button that will move to frame 15 when clicked. Now I want to reuse this button in another page but I want it to go to Frame 20 this time.
This is what I really mean...
I have created a button that when clicked, will LOAD frame 15. Now I want to reuse this button in another page but I want it to LOAD Frame 20 this time.
Sorry for the confusion
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RE: Swish2 button and loadmovie problem - 5/11/2004 3:32:34
Like I said, use Layers
Dan
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