Referring a Specific Scene to Scene/Access from multiple Scenes

[masond96029663]

Below I have attached a picture that describes what I am talking about.  I have a predicament with my project as I have quite a few scenes now and was hoping there was a simple fix/cleaner way to accomplish the task.

[Colin Holgate · Accepted solution]

You could have a function in each scene that stored the frame and scene that you had come from. In Scene A for example you might have a button that when you click on it you would go to Scene 2. The script would be like this (the button is named 'testbtn' for my example):

import flash.events.MouseEvent;

testbtn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, gootherscene);

stop();

function gootherscene(e: MouseEvent) {

  testbtn.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, gootherscene);

  var f: int = currentFrame;

  var s: String = "Scene A";

  gotoAndStop(1, "Scene 2");

  setreturn(f, s)

}

That function would take you over to Scene 2, and it would call a function 'setreturn', to make a note of where you came from.

In Scene 2 (and all other scenes) you would have this script:

import flash.events.MouseEvent;

var returnscene:String;

var returnframe:int;

returnbtn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,doreturn);

function setreturn(framenumber:int,scenename:String){

  returnframe = framenumber;

  returnscene = scenename;

}

function doreturn(e:MouseEvent){

  returnbtn.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,doreturn);

  gotoAndStop(returnframe,returnscene);

}

When the return button (named 'returnbtn' in my example) is clicked, it would go back to the frame and scene that you had come from.

[masond96029663]

Thank you Colin for this answer, it seems to work perfectly!  Hopefully I will be able to better organize my animate file because of this seemingly easy function!

[Colin Holgate]

Glad it worked out ok!