[jeemer]

Hi there.

Ok I've done a bunch of tutorials, made a couple of mini sites and I want to make something more advanced.

Lets simplify it and say I have 4 movies, all separate swfs:

1 - Main movie
2 - page 1
3 - page 2
4 - page 3

Lets say that all the 'page' movies, when they start, animate onto the stage. And at the end, they animate off.

What I want to happen is that the main movie loads up, the menu pops in. On the menu is a button for page 1, 2 and 3

The external page 1 should then appear on the main stage area, animating on at first and then hitting it's 'stop' frame and remaining static onscreen. The user can then interact with the page 1.

Then say the user clicks page 2. What I want to do then is set a variable called 'nextPage' to 'page2'

Then the page 1 should go to the part of it's movie where it animates off.

Then I want it to load the movie stored as the variable nextPage onto the screen. It should animate in, and users can interact with it.

Hopefully someone understands what I mean. I've followed a tutorial and managed to get external swfs loading into a 'holder' mc on the stage. However, they don't seem to animate. I want them to go through the part where they animate onto the stage.

TONS of thanks to anyone who can help me out with this.