transitional scene (only want it to be played after the first scene)

[Darcy U]

Hi,

I have a scene (scene 1) with multiple buttons which link to different pop up text. I would like to be able to click on any one of those buttons in the first scene to have a little transitional scene (the buttons slide over) and the text of the selected button would then pop up. After this I would like to be able to select any button on the menu and have the text pop up without the little transitional scene before it.

I was thinking have a stop(); in the middle of scene 1 and then having a piece of code which plays the rest of the scene whenever you click a button and then goes to whichever scene you happened to click. I know exactly what it is I want to do, I just lack the coding expertise to be able to do it.

Thanks for your help,

D

Example 1.

Scene 1 ---> Transitional scene -----> scene 4 -----> scene 3 ------> scene 2

[Ned Murphy]

Are you saying that you only want the transition of the buttons sliding to happen once but the text popup happen every time?... meaning the menu of buttons sets itself up for the rest of the use of the file after its first use and stays put after that?

If so, you probably want to have the text popups as separate movieclips/animations from the timeline they occupy.  That way they can animate independently from the menu that they live in.