So now we have, in essence four (or more, or less, depending on your individual cases) blank web pages inside a single Flash .swf movie, ready for us to fill them with content--something we will cover in the next few lessons as we explore using different kinds of web content in a Flash format. In the meantime, take a look at my completed example for this lesson to see how it's pretty much just like navigating through regular web pages, only with less load time (regular HTML web pages tend to blank out between pages while it loads new content). I've put a little text indicator in the lower right hand corner of each page so you can actually tell that you're navigating between frames, as otherwise they would all look the same.
Flash Animation 23: Flash for Web Design: Creating Individual Content Pages
By Adrien-Luc Sanders, About.com
Next, copy the first frame with your buttons--and then paste it over and over again into each individual frame that will contain content. The reason that we waited until last to do this was so we wouldn't have to redo the code for the buttons on each page. You can leave the stops intact on each frame as a safety precaution.
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- Introduction and Getting Started
- Pointing A Button to a "Web Page"
- Setting up the Rest of the Buttons
- Copying the Design Container
- Copying the Buttons and Conclusion
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