Hey Rob,

  Thanks for the tip.  I've gone about breaking everything into one scene movies, and I've got code that, upon the click of a button, loads the new .swf thusly:

import flash.display.Loader;

import flash.net.URLRequest;

stop();

var singleLoader:Loader = new Loader(); 

btnCont_scene1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, btnContClick);

function btnContClick(event:MouseEvent):void

{

    removeChild(singleLoader);

    var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest("DT-Session1-Male_AnxietyIntr2.swf");

    singleLoader.load(request);

    addChild(singleLoader);

}

However, I'm unsure how to go about clearing the screen first?? The code above just tries to copy right over it without clearing the stage first...

Thanks!

-Ricky

I found a way to do it but I want to check to see if there's anything wrong with it - basically I just have the button skip ahead to a frame where I deleted everything that was on the stage, and then on that frame I load the .swf file...

cuts out the separate transition .swf middleman....

Hey Rob,

  I'm pretty confused.  My application generally proceeds in a linear fashion, and content is not reused so I really just need to wipe out the stage each time and load in a new .swf file.  There is one part where I used a sharedObject to store what the user has already clicked on so I can adjust which options are later presented.  I've been using the gotoAndStop() method of loading new movies, but things are getting all mixed up and I don't really understand what's going on.  Sometimes things don't load, sometimes they load multiple times and loop, and other times I get a compile error - for instance, when the user clicks on a button, I have the actionscript direct it to a certain frame and load a new movie - but then when that movie loads, it crashes at frame 466 and when I look at it in the debugger, its because its still traversing the timeline of the parent caller and referring to a button that doesn't exist on the movie I've loaded -- I'm confused as to how to do something that I thought would be pretty straightforward - all I want is that each time the new movie loads for flash to use that timeline and that timeline only -- I'm not sure why it's going through the timeline of the calling movie - I have a stop command so I thought it would just go straight to the new movie's first frame and go from there....I've been trying to read help documentation on how the loading stuff works but it's confusing and I'm unable to find examples of the sort of simple thing I need to be do...

-Ricky

Thanks for all the help Rob.  Below are links to download the movies.  Here's a brief explanation of what I'm trying to do.

DTM1-Start.swf is the starter file, and at the end is a continue button that should load DTM1-Intr1.swf.   DTM1-Intr1.swf does load successfully, but it loops instead of following the stop() command at the end to allow the user to click on one of the three emotion buttons.  If, however, I run DTM1-Intr1.swf alone, it does not loop and the stop() command is executed as it should be -- this is a common theme throughout, i.e., the files work as they should when I run them directly, it's the loading and linking between .swf files that is problematic.  Anyway, if I run DTM1-Intr1.swf directly, I am able to click on one of three buttons.  No matter what button I choose (anger- DTM1-Ang1.swf, anxiety - DTM1-Anx1.swf, or sadness - DTM1-Sad1.swf), the movie only gets a bit through the first block of text before crashing with a null reference error (I alluded to this problem in my above post).  Again, if I run any of the emotion movies directly, there is no crash.  When running the emotion movies directly, the continue button is supposed to lead the user to DTM1-EmotTrans.swf.  It does do this, but the movie loops repeatedly instead of following the stop() and goto commands that are supposed to display the buttons the user has not yet clicked (i.e., if they first clicked the sad button, only the anxiety and anger buttons remain on the screen in DTM1-EmotTrans.swf) --- again, if I open DTM1-EmotTrans.swf directly, it displays the correct buttons.  Finally, when clicking on one of the emotion buttons from the DTM1-EmotTrans movie, where it should be taking me back to the emotion movies, it instead crashes with a null reference error.  So basically none of my linking is working and I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong :/   .....  Anyway, below are the .swf files -- I really appreciate your help, I'm pretty desperate.

DTM1-Start.swf - https://www.box.com/s/b98ccb465300b9ebfba5

DTM1-Intr1.swf - https://www.box.com/s/0b97389f002110cd3c14

DTM1-Sad1.swf - https://www.box.com/s/0da112b4a27128ba6b90

DTM1-Anx1.swf - https://www.box.com/s/0eb0f4f3b373cbe8d631

DTM1-Ang1.swf - https://www.box.com/s/a9bae191dbdfe5c00c0e

DTM1-EmotTrans.swf - https://www.box.com/s/fbd5810d0ee8eafdbf54

With gratitude,

Ricky