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Tutorial - Browser Back Buttons used with Flash

Free Flash Tutorial

Step One: Creating the Buttons

1. Open up a: Flash Movie
2. Place on the Main Stage a set of: 6 Buttons
3. Select the first button and place the following code:

on (press) {
   // Call the java script command on the web page
   getURL("1.html", "history frame");
   // Set the page number
   _root.page = 1;
   // Tell the movie clip where to go to and stop in the time line
   _root.Movie.gotoAndStop("f1");
}

4. Place the same code on each of the other buttons but change ALL the values 1 to 2 for the second button and to 3 for the third button etc.

Code for the second button:

on (press) {
   // Call the java script command on the web page
   getURL("2.html", "history frame");
   // Set the page number
   _root.page = 2;
   // Tell the movie clip where to go to and stop in the time line
   _root.Movie.gotoAndStop("f2");
}