Menu Navigation Problem

[user0607]

hello!

I have the main navigation links (Portfolio, About, Contact, and Links) and when you click on them, an external swf opens in the Holder_mc area below the navigation. Those all work fine. However, I want a SUBMENU to open to the right of my main nav links only when you click on Portfolio. That part works fine as well. But when you click on the submenu links, they dont open my swf files into holder_mc. I have no idea how to go about fixing this.
I've tried searching the on internet 'submenu tutorials', 'loading external swf' , read through my book. tried other ways around it. No luck.

I appreciate your time and anyone's help on this. Hopefully I'll get a job out of all this mess!

Here is the link to download the files:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/gcbars

thank you!

[findAll]

Hi there

As far as I understood, you want that the submenu buttons, when clicked, to load external swfs in that holder_mc (where other swfs load when the buttons in the main menu are clicked). I downloaded your fla files (and all you posted there), but didn't find the swfs to be loaded when the buttons in the submenu are clicked. Therefore i created some test swfs (test_1.swf, test_2.swf....test_8.swf) corresponding to your 8 buttons in the submenu.
I also made other changes:
- submenu.gotoAndStop(2), attached directly to the portofolio button I moved it in the actios layer next to holder_mc.loadmovie("btn_1.swf",1) - this just for organizing work :}
- in the submenu movieclip, in Layer 2, frame 2 I created a blank keyframe where I put the actions for your submenu buttons; the idea was to tell flash where your holder_mc is; being inside submenu movieclip, when loading you had to put _root.holder_mc.loadMovie instead of holder_mc.loadMovie because you don't have another holder_mc inside the submenu :td:
- in the archive below I sent you back only the index.fla, btn_1.swf and the test swfs (changes made only in index.fla) so it works while testing it independently.

I hope this is what you neded.

CLICK HERE (http://www.weblog.ro/usercontent/18241/diverse/remade.rar) to download the *.rar archive

[user0607]

You are amazing!! Thank you so much, I really appreciate this. This morning I was about to give up on the portfolio site altogether but I decided to take one more look at all the forums I posted on. This is exactly what I was trying to do. I knew it had something to do with _root. Just didn't know where to put it. I'm so new to all of this. Now I can finish up my site and show my work to potential jobs. Thank you!