Menu problems

I have a bit of a problem. I'm ultimatly looking for some ActionScript that will count to 5 and then load up a new page. This is my problem:
I have a menu bar that is near the middle of the screen for the main page and then for other pages i have made a tween that moves that bar to the top of the page, that lasts for 10 frames (2-11). So after a button (there are 7) is pressed, I want the bar to move to the top and then goto my next page, but i can't find a single thing that will work. Any ideas?

Thanks guys

Hi, I dont see where the counting to 5 comes in. As for the rest well...

say your menu movie is called myMenu.

on each button have

on(release)
{
myMenu.nextPage = "News";
myMenu.gotoAndPlay(2);
}

Then on the last keyframe for the menu animation have:

_root.gotoAndPlay(nextPage);

That's assuming you have each page on the main stage sectioned off with named keyframes, in this case we want to jump to the News page (keyframe).

Well that wont work because i have 7 different links and i'm not moving ahead in the movie, i'm linking to an html page, so a new page will be loaded in the browser, not a continuation of the .swf
So that is where the timing comes in, what would happen would be that the button would be clicked, the tween would occur (for a timed period) and then the new page would be loaded in the browser. Since i don't want the new page to be loaded immediatly after release i'm having problems.

Thanks

Hi, I'm not sure why you think that wont work. It should. Anyway if you really want a timed method then this should do:

Normally I would recommend cancelling setInterval with clearInterval but if you loading a new page onto it wont matter since the whole thing is replaced.

I still reccomend the first thing I said, if you want it to open a new page then use:

last menu kf:

So if in enter that it will go to frame 2 of my scene, play it and when the tween has finished will open up a new page?
Thanks, I will try that