In the previous exercise, you completed a menu system that was contained within a movie clip.

Once this menu movie clip is on the Stage, you can use it to control events on the Stage:

1. On the Stage, create a ' labels&actions' layer. Place new blank keyframes with labels at regular intervals for every single submenu item.

   

2. Following on from the previous example you would need to create labelled keyframes for all of the following:

   • home,

   • web sites,

   • illustration,

   • graphics,

   • client list,

   • contact,

   • top 10,

   • flash tips.

3. Add content to each of these frames for the submenu buttons to link to.

But how do you connect the buttons within the movie clip menu to labelled frames on the Stage? Don't they have different Timelines?

1. Double click on your menu movie clip on the Stage to open it in Edit Symbol mode.

2. Select the button in your menu that you want to link to a frame on the main Stage. Add the Goto and Stop behavior to it.

   

3. Make sure _ root is selected as the movie clip and type in the name of the frame. This means that you will go to that frame on the main Stage.