Question

I am very new to Flash and I need help to get started with building multi-pages Flash application.

I managed to open another swf file (called Page1) from within the main swf by calling this function

    private function LoadExternalSwf(): void     {         var loader:Loader = new Loader();         var urlReq:URLRequest = new URLRequest('page1.swf');         loader.load(urlReq);         addChild(loader);     } 

1. How do you add a sort of ‘Back’ button to Page1 so that it will close itself (so that we are back to the main screen)?

2. If Page1 were a movie, is it possible to automatically close it after it finishes playing?

(I am using Flash CS3, Flex Builder 3, AS3)

Thank you

Answer 1

Solution:

From page1:

// Dispatch a 'pageFinish' event to the loader/parent/container if any if (loaderInfo.loader)     loaderInfo.loader.dispatchEvent(new Event('pageFinish', true)); 

From the main swf:

// Listen for the 'pageFinish' event loader.addEventListener(EVENT_PAGEFINISH, OnPageFinish);  ...  private function OnPageFinish(event: Event): void {     ... }