Options Screen - Navigation Issues

[robtyketto]

Hi, I’m a newbie and now learning flash in a school project to right a simple game (pong with a football theme) in Flash mx 2004.

I've designed a title page that has a menu on the right hand side containing buttons, within action script I've added code so when each button ("Instructions", "options" or "about") is clicked they load in a flash movie file into the position of my defined movie clip which is to the left hand side of the buttons and is basically a square shape with some text in.

This is all working fine, now I’ve hit a brick wall as my Option page requires some user interaction that I don’t know how it can be achieved using the standard up, over and down.

Firstly I need a way of being able for the user to select parameters of the game for difficulty (easy, medium or hard), sound volume (0 - 100) etc.., and then store these values into variables.

I guess this could be done in a number of ways

a) Left and right arrows allowing selecting choices
b) All choices displayed but only one highlighted and allow mouse to select another.
c) Have one label that when clicked upon changes the option i.e. 2 clicks needed to jump from easy to hard.

I’m also concerned as I’ve used embedded swf files if this will complicate me passing the variables into my game.

Any thoughts, ideas and suggestions of how i could setup this screen would be greatly appreciated.

Even if it just the basics or pointing me in the right direction, would all be very helpful to me. Thanks.