How to do a simple or basic actionscript on Adobe Flash CS4? I am just having problems

Question

I am doing my simple portfolio on Adobe Flash CS4. However when I am already looking just for the basic action scripting from the tutorial I can't determine which is the most accurate for the buttons.
Here's my sample below
the texts that were listed below are my buttons such as  ABOUT, PROFILE, PRINT ADS, MAGAZINE, LOGO, PRINT, ILLUSTRATION, and DESIGN CONCEPT
I've already convert it into symbol as BUTTON and now I am ready to put a basic action script to function and transfer into another scene.
Example I want to function the ILLUSTRATION and PRINT button into Illustration and Print scene how would I do the action script about it?
Here's the example of next scenes that could be clicked from the homepage
This is the ILLUSTRATION scene
This is the PRINT scene
Please help me on how to do the action scripting by using the gotoAndPlay or anything else to function my portfolio. Thank you

Answer 1

Give each of your buttons an instance name via the Properties panel.  As an example fr coding them, let's say you named the button "about_btn" for the scene named "about" that you want it to go to.  Then to have that button make your file go to the about scene, you would add the following code into a frame of the timeline where that button is (in a separate actions layer preferably).  Select the frame and in the Actions panel write...
about_btn.onRelease = function(){
     gotoAndStop("about", 1);
If you wanted it to play instead of stop at frame 1 of the about scene, then you would use gotoAndPlay(...) instead of gotoAndStop(...).  If you intended to go to a frame other than 1, then it is best to use frame labels and specify the label instead of the frame number.
Just a word of warning, if you haven't gotten too far with the design yet, you should back away from using scenes and just build all your sections into the first scene as sections of the timeline and/or movieclips.  Combining scenes with navigation can be problematic... they just don't play right.  Scenes are more useful for animations that do not have navigation.
When you use just the one scene, all your gotoAndStop/Play commands only need to specify the frame... as in gotoAndStop(1);