controlling movieclips

[djbiaz]

Hello,

Can anyone help with the following, I have a navigationbar with buttons controlling the movieclips,
when you hit the button it plays the movieclip (i used the "with" function and then the command it should play).
The problem is that when I press another button to play another movieclip movieclip, I have to hit the button twice, so it makes it for the user funny to navigate cause they have to press the button twice...
I used "on release" as mouse event.
Can anybody tell if it's a scripting problem or something else?

Thanx

[theTick]

might be a scripting problem.
showing us the code you use would make it easier to help...

[djbiaz]

Here is the code for one of the buttons

The first with is to control the movie which has to play, the others to stop the other movieclips and make them disappear again.

on (release) {
with (profilecontent) {
play();
with (contactcontent) {
gotoAndStop(31);
}
with (photoshopcontent) {
gotoAndStop(40);
}
with (websitecontent) {
gotoAndStop(58);
}
with (clicksound) {
gotoAndPlay(2);
}
with (videocontent) {
gotoAndStop(33);
}
}
}

[theTick]

is that the exact code you use on the button ???
cause: in line 3 after play(); you have to close that curly bracket.
if it is no mistake but nested 'with' commands then it beats me. i'ver never tried nesting 'with'. this might be the problem then... ????

[djbiaz]

That's the code allright! , there is more code on the button button that's for the rolloverstate of the button so it doesn't control any of the movieclips,

If I start moving around in my code an start adding or delete any brackets, it gives a message that my code is wrong (syntax error)...
so...

[theTick]

yeah, well the amount of brackets is alright.
but you realize that all 'with' are contained (nested) within the first 'with'.
if you add a bracket after play() you have to delete a bracket at the end.
but anyway, you don't need 'with' here. a simple profilecontent.play();
profilecontent.contactcontent.gotoAndPlay(31);
a.s.o. would do the job also...
you just have to take care of the correct targetting.

unfortunately, i'm not much of a help, cause i haven't used 'with' much...

[djbiaz]

ok, I'll try it, thanx for the help... greetingz Biaz