Game Making

[Guest]

Okay, so I have looked for a while now, even asked my teacher, and haven't been able to get any answers for my question. So hoping people here will be able to help me out. So, me and a friend are making a game. The game is the Nim strategy game. What we want is to have a .fla for the main menu of the game and an actionscript file for the main menu. The menu would be the first thing the user would see. There would be a button on the main menu to enter the game itself. We would like to have another separate .fla file for the game and just somehow call it up in the button function of the menu. The game .fla would have it's own actionscript code. Is this possible? If so how? And another little catch is if you can do it, does it need to have a file locator of some sort? As that would not help since we have to  hand this in as a project and the teacher wouldnt have access to the file location as it is online. Are we asking for the impossible? Is actionscript able to do this?

Thanks for any help possibe!!

[Ned Murphy]

You can have separate files and load them into other files as needed - look into the Loader class for loading swf files.  The actionscript can be in the fla files or as separate files.  I am guessing that you are handing in a finished game file (swf) rather than an fla files for this since it appears your instructor knows nothing about Flash (either that or he/she is being intentionally non-helpful).

[Guest]

So I had looked into the loader function and it seemed to do the trick, except for the part where it requires a file location to load the other fla file. And indeed I need to hand in the fla and as files along with the swf file, so the file location would not work in this case I believe.

[dmennenoh]

You would have all of your swf files together - in the same folder even. Then when you load one you just use the relative location - simple as something like: myLoader.load("game.swf");