How to make a game menu..

How do you go abouts on making a game menu???
I Know how to make a button with gotoAndStop, and gotoAndplay. I understand timeline coding. And have started with classes and OOP, im ok at writing classes i guess.
But I have know idea how to make a menu that has basic things like instructions start ect basic things.. I have a library with a exported SWC, so i presume i need to grab my graphical assets from this, correct? or is there other ways?

Thank you for this i have stumbled upon this before.
Now really the real question is how do i add my game to that? I have a Main class attached to my game currently.. With a FLA holding graphics (I know i can add my buttons to this fla.) Thats the problem my game is currently the documents class. So if i change it to the main provided by emmanuel. that communicates with the the_game_itself.as, but im unsure as to how im supposed to put my code in this and still communicate with the main document class?
If you want to see my code, let me know.

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