Help, catalyst buttons

Question

So, i'm new to flash catalyst, have been using it for like a day now, and I'm building a html/css/flash site. Im working with frames in dreamweaver, and i want to put a menu bar made in catalyst in my top frame, and all the other content (text, pics, whatnot...) in my bottom frame. I had no truble making my menu bar buttons look good, but when i wanted to make them interact with my html content in the lower frame, i got stuck. As I see it, you cant link your buttons to any content on your local HD, it only askes you to provide a url. So my question to you is, can it be done?
Thanks!

Answer 1

First you need to declare and add a button, then a action listener to that button. I it is clicked the action listener notifies the action performed method and you can set a flag.
boolean button1pressed;
Button button1 = new Button("button 1");
b1.addActionListener(this);
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e){
     if(e.getSource() == button1)
          button1pressed=true;
          repaint();
}and inside your paint() method
if (button1pressed=true)
     //first action
    g2D.setColor (Color.green);
    g2D.drawLine (10, 100, 489, 100);
else if (button2pressed=true)
     //second action
}