Please Help.Transition effects between scenes.

Question

Hello,
I am simulating an Ipad device in flash CS6, with AS3, and I have made one scene for the desktop (with all the app icons) and another scene for each app.
I'm using buttons to navigate between apps (each app icon is a button), and made another button for the Ipad home button to go back to desktop.
By the way , I'm using this code for the buttons;
          btn_music.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, abrerep);
          function abrerep (event:MouseEvent):void {
          gotoAndStop("1","Reproductor");
It works fine , but I would like to add a transition effect (like a fade out, or something similar to what ipad actually do)  when you open an app or go back to desktop (change scene).
Any advice on how to do this?!!
I apreciate your help, thanks in advance.
PD: Also I would like to simulate a web browser app (like safari), that when you open it, it goes to a web site, for example www.apple.com
Any Ideas to this??

Answer 1

Doing trransitions along a timeline using scenes is not very designer-friendly.  You are better off avoiding the using of frames and even the timeline.  Just have each section as a movieclip in one frame and control the visibility of each.  Then you can use Actionscript to fade things in and/or out as needed, while having the benefit of easily retaining the states of sections already visited.  You should be able to convert each scene into a movieclip by copying the timeline into a movieclip.