Good morning, AS3 help needed for building my own site in flash

Question

Good morning to all,
I am creating a site in Flash, I am using AS3 to create a
site that stops/starts the movie on my home page and I have a
series of buttons that play a head (or are supposed to) to the a
frame for each additional page. Do I need A.S. for each button as
well? I didn't think I did. The script below is the first one in
the layer titled actions, this I thought is supposed to stop/start
the movie at the beginning and the button abt_mgn_btn is supposed
to bring it to frame 10 to play my about page. ?? at my frame
number 10 should I put the stop(); script there as well? And at
every frame break for the next pages? I am hopelessly in need of
guidance. Thank you to anyone helping me out.
import flash.events.EventDispatcher;
import flash.display.MovieClip;
this.stop();
function startMovie(event:MouseEvent):void {
this.gotoAndPlay(10);
abt_mgn_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.click,startMovie);

Answer 1

If you have a button on the same timeline as your code with
the instance name of abt_mgn_btn, then, when this button is
released, the playback head will jump to frame 10 of the current
timeline and continue to play.
If you want the playback head to jump to that frame and stop
then, either use gotoAndStop(10), or put a stop(); command at frame
10. GotoAndStop() will work more reliably.
Have you gone through the tutorials that come with Flash?
These tutorials may help you to understand the basics of working in
Flash CS3. You may also benefit from a book or two on Flash. Try
"Foundation Flash CS3 for Designers" by Tom Green and David Stiller
from friends of Ed, ISBN 159059861X and/or "Adobe Flash CS3
Professional, Classroom in a Book" from Adobe Press, ISBN
0321499824.