help with loadmovie!!!!

So you have a main movie that contains a menu and acts as a container for other movies you load via the menu?

If you want to add a previous and next buttons to your main movie obviously these buttons need to know the URL to the previous and next SWFs.  So the first thing to do is to make a list of all the external swfs.

Best way to do this would be to put this in an XML file and load it when the main movie starts. But for now an array would do, something like;

var ChildMovies:Array;
ChildMovies[0] = "A.swf"
ChildMovies[1] = "B.swf"
ChildMovies[2] = "C.swf"

You can now use the array index (0,1,2) to load the child movies using the menu;

I'm not sure how you are creating and assigning the submenus, but assuming they are all manually created you can change the onrelease as below;

on (release) {
loadMovieNum(ChildMovies[1], 1);
_root.CurrentMovie = 1;
}

Now you have variable that keeps track of which movie you have currently loaded. So when the prev button is pressed you can say;

on (release) {
loadMovieNum(ChildMovies[_root.CurrentMovie - 1], 1);
_root.CurrentMovie = _root.CurrentMovie - 1;
}

And for the next button;

on (release) {
loadMovieNum(ChildMovies[_root.CurrentMovie + 1], 1);
_root.CurrentMovie = _root.CurrentMovie + 1;
}

You will next to add some checks to see if you are already at the beginning or at the end, but this is the basic idea.  I would strongly recommend you use XML and dynamically create the submenus for maintainability and scalability once you have this working.

Regards

Siva