Animation intro in nav menu? no idea where to begin

[breegeek]

Hi,

I am fairly new to flash and have spent days looking at tutorials to try to figure this all out. Here is what I (think) I am trying to do.

A site, with a top navigation bar. When you load the index page, I want the nav bar area to have a quick animation, then the navigation menu pops up after the animation is complete.

I have made the animation as a basic flash file, the size of the navigation bar. Here is the animation: intro_ani.swf (http://nerdcomics.com/intro_ani.swf) and I guess the original file is this (http://nerdcomics.com/intro_ani.fla)

In theory, I want the pages to appear below the animation/nav bar.

Is there a way to make this animation a symbol in another fla document:confused:?
I am very lost and could use a few pointers in the right direction.

Thanks in advance!

[vdizzle]

I could not open your file-I have flash cs3? or you using cs4?

All you have to do is put a gotoAndPlay("scene2") or whatever the name of your scene label is. Make sure you place a stop(); on the frame of that new scene with the nav bar.

So basically you have two scenes. One scene1 with the intro and scene 2 with the nav bar.

scene 1 -on the last frame of the animation has a gotoAndPlay("scene2") or frame number (12) If you dont name your scenes just put the frame number/

and

scene 2- Im sure all your code should be on one frame. On that frame you have your navbar code with a stop function stop();

[breegeek]

golly! that worked! thanks so much!

I will let you know how it looks once I am done, and yes, cs4

[vdizzle]

great glad to hear