simple Flash help (I think)

[BrianKitts]

I'm new to using flash, but have a director background... so most of it makes sense, but now I'm stuck on the last part, any help would be appreciated.

 

I'm working on a presentation that has to be embedded in powerpoint. So to get the control that I want I'm embedding the animation in flash and then adding the needed navigation.

 

Basically there's a video on the screen, and the timeline has stopping points at specific frames of the animation. Then the user has a "next" button to continue playing the animation. All this works great, so now I want to add a combobox dropdown menu with all the stopping points to allow the user to jump backwards to specific points if need be.

 

basically I can't figure out how to do a gotoAndPlay and pull the data value from the dropdown menu. Here's what I have so far...

 

//navigation menu

import fl.data.DataProvider;

import fl.events.ComponentEvent;

 

var items:Array = [

{label:"Existing", data:"01"},

{label:"Demo", data:"20"},

{label:"Add. Floors", data:"120"},

{label:"Seismic", data:"178"},

{label:"Bathrooms", data:"238"},

{label:"Elevators", data:"286"},

];

 

navMenu.dataProvider = new DataProvider(items);

navMenu.addEventListener(Event.CHANGE, ItmChng)

function ItmChng(e:Event):void

{

nav = navMenu.getValue();

gotoAndPlay(nav);

}

 

 

I can remove the "nav" variable and just put in a number to the gotoAndPlay line and it works, so I just need to figure out how to use the data value from the dropdown....

 

any ideas?

[BrianKitts]

nevermind..... got it

 

navMenu.addEventListener (Event.CHANGE, changeHandler);

function changeHandler (event:Event):void

{

gotoAndPlay (event.currentTarget.selectedItem.data);

}