Problem with movie clip when I select other links.

Im a beginner to Flash and to help me grasp the basics of building my own Flash site, I downloaded some Flashmo.com website and looked at the actionscript etc. One thing I tried to do was import their carousel template into one of their flash templates. When I did this however the carousel won't disappear when I click on other links. I set the site to load on another frame that doesn't contain the carousel, and it works fine but when I click on the link containing the carousel it starts up and wont disappear once I goto other links. Im sure this has something to do with the actionscript. If anyone has any suggestions as to what might possibly be done I'd appreciate it very much. Thanks.

I loaded the site online so you can get an idea of what Im talking about.
http://www.teeworksink.com/temp

Post the source so we can help you.

Great thank-you I'd appreciate any help I can get. I'm not sure if I need to add actionscript to the menu_list or the movieclip itself. Thanks for the reply. Pretty sure this is the right file.

Think I have to edit the action script contained on the frame, in the movie clip, or in the link list? Also ill add the XMLFile for the source file I don't think the carousel will work without it. Please anyone who has any suggestions please reply id be very appreciative because I'm sure ill be doing this a lot in sites in the future. Thanks

I tried the source, but it's like you said, it won't function without the .xml files. Try just zipping together everything you have in your project folder and posting it.

Ok heres the .zip file hope this works for you sorry. The zthumnails are the thumbnails for the bottom scrolling images, just so your not confused, I haven't edited the actionscript for that, but I'm sure I can figure that out. Thanks again for taking a look at this for me, I really appreciate any help any of you can bring to the table. Hope I don't waste any more of your time. I didn't include the .FLA because no matter what I did with that it made the file too large the forum wouldn't let me upload it unless I did it seperate so just put the .FLA above in the folder and I'm pretty sure it will work fine. Sorry for the inconvenience once again. Thanks again.

Did that work for you guys? If not please let me know.

The reason the carousel won't disappear is because the items on the carousel are added to flashmo_contents dynamically through the duplicateMovieClip method and are therefore not bound to any one frame. The best solution would be to create a separate movieclip for the carousel and toggle its visibility. This would also solve another major bug you have, that the code for the first frame runs every time you go back to home causing several carousels to be created. Hope this helps you!

Oh thank-you! It works like a charm now. I didn't toggle it's visibility though. What I did was create a movie clip for it and then placed it inside the flashmo_contents clip on the home link frame. Its not playing anymore when I click on other links, but will it create multiple carousels everytime I go back to home like you said, it doesn't seem like it is. I really appreciate your help Defenestrated.

No that was an earlier problem, since the carousel script was on the first frame of flashmo_contents it would run every time you went back to the first frame. But you've solved that now by storing the carousel in its own movieclip.

Ok great it seems to be working wonderfully. I appreciate your help its suprising how tough it is to get help in flash forums. I'm used open source shopping cart forums where you get a reply in an hour or so.

Hey there guys
Im also new to this and having the same problem, while i do understand most of what youre saying i dont know how to create the movie clip that encompasses the whole carousel. Any direction would be greatly appreciated
Thanx

Ok never mind, I finally got my brain working and figured it out. Thank you for helping out brandroid and thereby helping me
Cheers