Button in movie Symbol to go to new scene

[jfaust97]

I am having trouble in Flash 5 getting a button action that is embedded in a Movie Symbol in Scene 1 to do a

on (release) {
gotoAndPlay ("scene 9", 1);
}

I know I am missing some context for the whole parent.child thing but I just don't get it....

I have tried _root & _level0 & _parent but I can't make it work....

HELP!!!!

[TranslucentDesign]

Try using a "frame label". The problem with scenes is that it combines all the main timelines into one big "main" timeline. For example if you had 3 scenes that had 50 frames each, the 1st frame of the 3rd scene is really frame 101 on the main timeline.

[jfaust97]

It still isn't working....

would you be interested in looking at the test FLA I am working with ??

[TranslucentDesign]

try this:
on(release){
tellTarget("_root"){
gotoAndPlay("framelabel");
}
}

[jfaust97]

That works great .... thanks for your help!!

It's stuff like this that isn't mentioned in any of the online help that is golden information!!

Thanks again

[TranslucentDesign]

Glad I could help!

[enpstudios]

I simply do this:

on (release) { 
_root.gotoAndPlay ("Framelabel"); 
}

[TranslucentDesign]

yeah that'll work to0, but figured he was editing in normal mode.