movieclips and/or scenes in succession

[just[dick]]

Using Flash MX, is it possible to have a button play a movie clip then go to a scene?

[oldnewbie]

Well you can play a mc from a button, then on the last frame of your movie clip (probably with a stop action) you would direct the main timeline to another scene.
But you can't use scene names from a mc. You'll have to label the first frame of the scene you are targeting with a unique label such as start_scene3 and target that labeled frame in the last frame of your movie clip:

_root.gotoAndPlay("start_scene3");

[nunomira]

you click a button to play a movie, and then when the movie finishes playing, you want to start playing a scene?

supposing the movieClip is called myMc and is on the stage

on(release){
 _root.myMc.play();

assign a frame labbel to the first frame of the scene you want to play; e.g. myScene
in the last frame of the the movieClip:

_root.gotoAndPlay("myScene");

[oldnewbie]

Ummmmmm! Wouldn't thought of that!
Posted at the same time I guess!

[just[dick]]

further explanation... multiple menu buttons on click all play same MC then goto seperate scene per button. possible in MX? thanks for your help...

[nunomira]

yes...
when I finished writting... yours was there...

yes, it is possible
one way is using variables
each button, when pressed, sends a different variable to the movieClip

for example, in button1:

on(release){
 _root.myMc.play();
 _root.myMc.myVariable="myScene1";
}

button2:

on(release){
 _root.myMc.play();
 _root.myMc.myVariable="myScene2";
}

and so on

in the last frame of the movieClip:

_root.gotoAndPlay("myVariable");

and myScene1, myScene2, ... are the labels of the first frames of each different scene you want to play

[just[dick]]

I had a feeling it was going to require a variable. now to try...
thanks

[just[dick]]

alas...
nothing going.

on button click i get nothing.

here is my button code...


on(release){
_root.movie.play();
_root.movie.myVariable="Scene 2";
}


and the code in the last frame of my MC...


_root.gotoAndPlay("myVariable");


nothing going.

here is the output...


Scene=Scene 1, Layer=Layer 1, Frame=2: Line 2: ';' expected
_root.Symbol 2.play(1);

Scene=Scene 1, Layer=Layer 1, Frame=2: Line 3: ';' expected
_root.Symbol 2.myVariable="Scene1";


grrr

[nunomira]

I can't see any errors...
or did you write:
_root.Symbol 2.play(1);
_root.Symbol 2.myVariable="Scene1";
?
is should be
_root.Symbol2.play(1);
_root.Symbol2.myVariable="Scene1";
...

don't use spaces when assigning instance names

[cancerinform]

The script is different. here is a fla I made. I didn't use scenes I used frames but that should not make any difference.

[just[dick]]

got it! finally. thanks a lot. maybe one day i'll...

[browntastic]

The Flash file from cancerinform doesn't seem to be working on my computer. Does anyone have a good copy of it?

[cancerinform]

I have a mac and some pc guys had problems with my files. Go to my site http://can_info_guide.tripod.com/ and send me your e-mail address. I will send you different compressed versions if nobody else has a solution.

But what is the problem?

[browntastic]

I have the same problem as just[dick].

or did you mean the problem with the Flash file? Every time I open it an error report shows up, and the program exits.

[cancerinform]

I don't get any error messages and it works fine. I have included the file again with swf.

[browntastic]

It's still sending an error report. The swf file is just a blank white screen.

[cancerinform]

As I said before, I have a mac, that may be the prblem. Give me your e-mails and I send you sit files but I can't promise it works.

[just[dick]]

im on a pc and the file worked fine for me, the only problem i had was that mozilla wanted to download the file as differentfla.zip.php , but once i got it, it worked just fine.

[cancerinform]

In a mac IE wants to download all files as attachment.php. #{&* the producer of pcs

[browntastic]

browntastic@hotmail.com

Thanks