Jump to a different scene from within a movie clip! Aaaaarrggghhhh!!

[Gambini]

I have 2 scenes.

Scene 1 has a button inside a movie clip. How the hell do I jump to Scene 2 by clicking on this button?

Sounds easy right? Well the normal script of:

on (release) {
gotoAndStop ("Scene 2", 1);
}


DOES NOT WORK!!!!!!!!!

This is driving me mad! Somebody please help!

[parenthetikl]

If the button is inside a movie clip, it's trying to jump to scene 2 within that MC, unless you tell it otherwise, I'm thinking.

I'd think you'd have to access it via _root somehow, but I avoid scenes at all costs, so I'm not sure of the exact code. Seems like it would be this:

on (release) {
_root.gotoAndStop ("Scene 2", 1);
}

Hope that works.

Best,
Tom

[duotwr]

Hi,

bin the "scene 2" bit. Give you first frame in Scene 2 a label and inside the button put the code

gotoAndPlay("new_label");

That should do it.

Keef

[Gambini]

Neither work!!! This is such a simple thing - it's driving me mad!

Does anybody know???

[ericlin]

If your Scene 1 has 23 frames, you want go to the Scene 2 first frame, then that is 24th frame.


_root.gotoAndStop(24);

It is bad to use absolute number of frame.
But, at least it works.

[pigghost]

Hi...the easiest way to do this is....

Go to the frame you want to go to...in the scene you want to go to...and put a "label".
Then on your button in your movieClip, put this action:

on (release) {
_root.gotoAndStop("yourLabel");
}


You can enter this action in the Expert Mode in the Actions Panel............. or to enter this in the Normal Mode in the Actions Panel, scroll down to Objects>MovieClip>gotoAndStop (or gotoAndPlay)......... DoubleClick and it automatically puts the on(release) part of the code.

Then in the Expression box, type the path in front of the dot (in this case, _root). Where it asks for the frame, put in your "label".............be sure to put quotes around it.

Hope this helps...

-pigghost-

[ericlin]

Wow, that is great. Now I learned. I have been confused by "Scene" thing for long.

In Scene 1

gotoAndStop("Scene2_label") - no
gotoAndStop("Scene 2","Scene2_label") - yes

_root.gotoAndStop("Scene2_label") - yes
_root.gotoAndStop("Scene 2","Scene2_label") - no

Thanx