Everyone says using scenes is BAD, but no one says why.

Why are scenes bad for some simple navigation?

Who says it bad, I use it a lot (always) to divide huge scenes into smaller
more editable items,
and I think it works just fine. It is also better for web, you can divide the
size of the file
the user have to download into smaller perts.
regards
Bjarne

All great comments. Thank You.

Most of the time I use loadMovie, especially for web deployment.

Just seem to like the ease of the scenes workflow over seperate docs.

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If you read the posts the talk about scene being bad, they usually say why

It is all to do with using them in script.

Partly because flash is buggy wrt scenes .. it can product bad code

And partly because you can only use scene names as literals (can use a
variable or expression for scene)

And partly because you can only use scene names in actions directly called
from scene level (not in clips).

And partly because you can then get confused between frame numbers within a
scene, and frame numbers within the whole movie (which is what you get at
from script)

If you use them ONLY for splitting your movie into logical segments, scenes
are fine. Just do not try to use them at all in script.