Using a button to play two movies

I'm designing a photos page for my band. (you can see what I have so far at stairwell.net.) I want to create a button that will do two things:

1. play a simple movie, and then...
2. play another movie immediately after the first movie finishes (but not before). (this movie will open a full size version of a thumbnailed image.)

I can make the two movies happen at once, but i want flash to wait for (1) to finish, and then do (2).

thanks.

[Edited by tkfourtwoone on 11-13-2001 at 02:05 AM]

Use tellTarget.

At the end of the first movieclip [MC] add the following actionscript [AS]:

tellTarget ("_root.movieclip2") {
play ();
}

I am using telltarget commands for my button. I was asking if I can just embed both commands in the button. are you saying that I should:

1. just have one command in the button (to play the first [MC]), and then
2. embed a command at the end of [MC]1 to play [MC]2?

I guess that makes sense, I'll give that a shot. Though I'm still curious if I can just embed both commands in the one button. Please confirm if this is possible or not. Thanks!

one tell target on the button and one in the movie clip(1) would be the easiest way to do it.

ok cool. thanks.

You could always do an if else command.

What it would be would be....if ....movie clip 1 is finished, tell movie clip two to start.

To let flash know that movie clip one is finished....at the end of the clip, you'd set a variable to something. Like......finished equals true...or something like that.

SO then the code would look like, if finished equals true, then tell movie 2 to play, otherwise, do nothing.

But, the above posters are right....the other way is better.