Controlling a timeline

[Lennart1968]

Hi
I'm new to actionscript!
Have tryed to write an if else sentence but grrrrrr its hard when you are not into programming.

My problem:
I have a movieclip that runs as an intro to my movie.
The first time the movie runs I want it to run all the way!!!!
But the problem is that when it stops I have a button who controls it with a simple play action.
and I cant get it to:

_root.portfolio.play(95);

which means to me that it should play frame 95
but it doesnt?


Why???

SO I tried to write in the first frame:
set (moviecliP,1)
if{movieclip=1;
play();}

and in the last frame
set (moviecliP,2)

and in frame 95
if{movieclip=1;
play();}
else{ stop;}


Help anyone

[norie40]

code:

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_root.portfolio.gotoAndPlay(95);

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[norie40]

btw...

standard if statement:

code:

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if(statement){

//true - do this

}else {

// false - do something else

}

---

so...

code:

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var playMovie = true;

if(playMovie == true){

play();

}else{

stop();

}

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is also the same as:

code:

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var playMovie = true;

if(playMovie){

play();

}else{

stop();

}

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here are some stardard comparsion operators:

'val1 == val2' checks if the two values are equal if they are it returns true.
'val1 > val2' checks to see if val1 is greater than val 2.
'val1 < val2' less than
'val1 >= val2' greater than OR equal to.
'val1 <= val2' less than or equal to.
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an exclaimation point ('!') means not or the opposite so...
'val1 != val2' checks if the two values are not equal if they are it returns true. which would be the same as '!(val1 == val2)'