flash actionscript: I am trying to use this code on a button in a MC in a scrollpane. I want the
button to send the user to a totally different scene in the site. [I need the
button to send outside of pane] What can I put in the parentheses that will
make it do this? ("Scene" , frame); doesn't work at all and if I just enter
("frame") I end up in different scenes and frames and I don't understand why it
sent me there.
Does anyone know why this is happening? Or maybe a different version of the
code that will work? Or maybe I am crazy and this can't be done?

Much obliged!

First, don't use scenes - they don't work the way you think they do. What you
need to do is label the frames that start each different "Scene" - (it would be
better to load the scenes on the fly when the user clicks them - but that is
another issue).

try:

Scene 1 frame 1 label: "s1_start"
Scene 2 frame 1 label: "s2_start"
Scene 3 frame 1 label: "s3_start"

to send the playhead to these frames:

_root.gotoAndPlay("s1_start");

What I ended up doing was counting up each and every frame in my .fla and sent
it to the one I wanted from there, and then put a stop action on that scene as
well. This works but I am sure it's a weird way of doing things. Scrollpanes
make everything very tricky!!

Thanks for your advice, I will use that as well, much easier!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Don't use frame numbers - what if you add 1 frame in 1 scene - then you have
to redo any code that calles those frames. You should really use frame labels
- they are the only effective way of using the timeline.