movie clip before main clip..!!?

[zerodonor]

Ok, im really stuck here.

I have navigation buttons + I want to play the same general movie clip, and then go to the movie clip I just pressed.

Here is an example:

I have buttons labeled 1 to 5. Say I want to press 2. It then plays a general movie clip + then goes to 2. I want the general movie clip to be played before all destination clips.

Does anyone know what i'm talking about?

Thanks
zerodonor

[zerodonor]

Wow, the first variable I have ever used..

I just made it work, i dont know if the code is right, but it works..any suggestions:

On each of the buttons i had this code:

on (release) {
nav = "1";
gotoAndPlay ("generalmc");
}

* nav changed with each button..

The clip that i wanted to play at first was labeled generalmc ..

At the end of the generalmc is this code:

if (nav == 1) {
gotoAndPlay ("one");
} else if (nav == 2) {
gotoAndPlay ("two");
} else if (nav == 3) {
gotoAndPlay ("three");
}

I had labeled the destination clips one, two and three..

Tell me if the code is right.

I know this is really basic, but anyway.

The only thing that didn't work was when I confused == with = .

see ya
zerodonor

[streetscratcher]

Well, this code should work by itself, but I think you can improve it a bit.
I suggest you name your movieclips not one, two or three, but 1, 2 and 3. You should also replace:

on (release) {
nav = "1";
gotoAndPlay ("generalmc");
}

by:

on (release) {
nav = 1; //no quotes
gotoAndPlay ("generalmc");
}

Then at the end of generalmc you replace:

if (nav == 1) {
gotoAndPlay ("one");
} else if (nav == 2) {
gotoAndPlay ("two");
} else if (nav == 3) {
gotoAndPlay ("three");
}

by:

gotoAndPlay (nav);

succes