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Flash Tutorial - Scrolling Dynamically Loaded Text

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Step Eleven: Creating the Page Links

1. Return to Scene 1 by selecting Scene 1 button:
   
   
2. Go to: Insert > New Symbol
3. Type the name: page1
4. Select Behavior: Button
5. Select: OK
   
   
6. Create a button for your first page link with Up, Over, and Down states. Place a static text box in your button that says: Load Page 1. (Make sure Selectable is off!) Try to make your button about 85 x 20 pixels
   
   
   Sample page1 button
   
7. Repeat 1-6 two more times to create 3 buttons total. Name the two buttons: page2 and page3 and change the labels as needed.
8. From your Timeline, create a new Layer above your Scroll Button Down layer by clicking on the: Insert Layer Button and dragging it below your Actions layer:
9. Rename the layer to: Links
10. From your Library, drag each button onto the stage (in the first frame of your Links layer) and place them next to the text box rectangle. Align and space if necessary
    
    
    Your stage should look something like this
    
11. Attach this ActionScript to page1 button
    
    on (release) {
        //loads this text file using the myLV LoadVars() object
        _root.myLV.load("page1.txt");
    }
    
12. Add the same code to the next two page buttons, but change "page1.txt" to "page2.txt" & "page3.txt" for the page2 and page3 buttons, respectively.