variables and movieclips

[thoseguys]

I have several buttons which instruct a movie clip to play.

When the clip has finished, I want it to goto one of several scenes in the main movie. Which scene depends upon which button was hit.

I thought I could do this by sending a variable from the button to the movie clip. What is the correct way to set a variable in the movie clip in this way.

The second problem is getting the movie clip to relate back to the main movie. I can't get it to move to another scene even by putting:
gotoAndPlay ("Scene 2", 1);
or
gotoAndPlay ("_root.Scene 2", 1);

My guess is with both issues I'm overlooking something basic in addressing paths. What is it?

[mikey1315]

Try this:

in the first frame of your _root timeline, set a variable SCENE (ie: scene = "".

On the button(s), make an action like this:

on (release) {
_root.scene = "nameOfTheSceneThisButtonRelatesTo";
movieclip.gotoAndPlay(1);
}

In the movieclip's last frame:

nextScene = _root.scene;
_root.gotoAndPlay(nextScene);

This should work.

[thoseguys]

Thanks
I agree - it looks like it should work, but it doesn't for me. The movie clip plays and I'm back at the beginning of scene 1.

[mgb]

Label the frames in question and on the button put;

next="labelname";

In the last frame of the clip put:

_root.gotoAndPlay(_root.next);

To target the root:

_root.gotoAndPlay("labelname")

You must label the frame to target the root from a clip.

~mgb
[Edited by mgb on 05-18-2001 at 09:16 PM]

[phil'ter design]

Along with label names, you can also use frame numbers, if you add up all of the frames in the scenes previous. So if scene 1 has 100 frames and you want to target scene 2, frame 1, use frame 101 as your target frame.

mgb's way is probably a little easier...but just another option for you.

[thoseguys]

Thankyou thankyou thankyou all!

This worked! Brilliant!

Originally posted by mgb
Label the frames in question and on the button put;

next="labelname";

In the last frame of the clip put:

_root.gotoAndPlay(_root.next);

To target the root:

_root.gotoAndPlay("labelname")

You must label the frame to target the root from a clip.

~mgb
[Edited by mgb on 05-18-2001 at 09:16 PM]