flash actionscript: I would like my navigation buttons to scroll a movie clip (backwards and
forwards), rather than just jumping to a frame.
http://www.swishzone.com/products/sites/site31/index.html that was built in
Swish.

How can this be done in Flash please?

wow siriunson, i've got a blinding headache from that nasty site, proper bad
site. Anyway that effect is easily done in flash either with a timeline based
animation or with a code based approach. At the end of the day anything made in
swish can be made in flash as they use the same player.

For a timelined approach you'll want your pages on individaul frames, then on
these frames you'll need a movieclip containing your tween animation effect
which is run when thre user enters the frame. Put a stop command at the end of
the animation and on each page frame.

Theres a million and one decent examples of simple tween effects either in the
flash help or at places like www.actionscript.org.

If on the other hand you want to learn a bit about actionscript and do the
site with a code approach the run through the basic actionscript tutorials and
it'll all become clear. Again check out www.actionscript.org for examples of
this.

Hope that helped, dr_ross

dr_ross thanks for the reply & the link to actionscript.org. I had already
tried inserting movieclips into my timeline but the problem I had was with what
I now know to be relative scrolling.

Thanks to you I found the perfect tute for me
http://www.actionscript.org/tutorials/intermediate/relative_scrolling/rel_scrol_
1.shtml

Thanks again.