New to Flash...HELP!!

I have a menubar that was built in Flash and it has an image
on one of the layers. I would like to replace this image with some
photos and/or images of our area. How can I make this so that the
image will change every 3 to 5 seconds?? I am using Flash
Professional 8 on a Windows XP machine.
Thanks!
Wayne

The simplest way to do that, without code, is to create the object as a button symbol.
What you do is put the visual for the non-rolled over in the first frame (Up) on the button's inner timeline, and the second visual on the Over frame of the inner timeline. It's ready to work.
To get started, select Insert -> New Symbol and select a button as the symbol type. If you look at the timeline it will show four frames that you can use for the button's visual content, labelled Up, Over, Down, and Hit.

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A: new to flash, swf loaded while changing size

b3autiful_dizaster wrote:
> i'm trying to create a button that will replace the
current swf with another
> and i want the size to change between the various sizes
of each page. i'm
> currently using the following code in the action
inspector:
>
> on(release){loadMovieNum("myfilename.swf",0);
> }
>
> i know there has to be a simple way to do this! a very
grateful thanks to
> anyone who tries to help!
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New at Flash

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