In this chapter we will look at creating more complex navigation through using buttons in groups as menus, through the use of movie clip symbols and by creating submenus.

Button Actions and Frame Actions

For people who are learning Flash or are scared of ActionScript, Macromedia have provided not only Behaviors – complete mini scripts that you can customize as we saw in the last chapter, but also Actions – pre-written pieces of code that you can combine and customize for your own requirements.

Actions can be attached to frames as well as to buttons, for example to pause on a frame or for making a new movie load on a particular frame or to loop ...

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