Professional :: Flyout Menu Button Functionality Within MovieClip
Jul 27, 2010
I created a flyout menu from this tutorial: [URL]. It basically created buttons within a movie clip for animation. Everything works great, but I cannot get the dropdown buttons to go to frames outside of the movie clip. Within the movie clip I am adding script to the dropdown buttons as follows:
on (release) {
gotoAndStop("Scene 1",10);
}
But it won't work. The buttons only seem to be able to go to frames within the movie clip such as:
on (release) {
gotoAndStop(10);
}
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[Code].....
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