Binding only in first frame?

[tomppalonen]

I'm trying to make a simple application with buttons to jump between frames and in each frame there are components such as comboboxes and checkboxes which values should come from .xml via xml connector.

Now, when I try to bind for example a combobox to the xml connector, it says in the component inspector: "A Component instance must exist in the first frame to edit its bindings". ???

How is it possible to make even a simplest application with navigation if all the components must be in the first frame??? Is there a solution for this?

I tried to put the components and xml connector in a movieclip of their own so that the components would be in the first frame of THAT timeline, but then it don't even find the xml connector in the component inspector when I'm trying to bind it???

Am I doing something wrong or are the components just so "infantile" that you can't create anything a bit more complex application with them?

Please help :(

[Scottae]

Check out this help doc on Data Binding (http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/8/main/00000760.html). It says:

Data binding is supported only between components that exist in Frame 1 of the main Timeline, Frame 1 of a movie clip, or Frame 1 of a screen

So if you are dead set on going to different frames, then you can put your components in movie clips on each frame. That way they can be on the first frame of the movie clip