gotoAndPlay(scene) problems...

I'm new to Flash MX but have gone through both Training From the Source books. Right now I have a project with currently three scenes in it. Scene 1 is a preloader, scene 2 is an "intro", and scene 3 will be the actual usable document.

The preloader works wonderfully and detects if 90% of it is downloaded... if so it goes to scene 2 by doing:

_root.gotoAndPlay (2);

Scene 2's name is "Intro". I am assuming the the "2" means go to frame 2 of scene 1 and since there is not frame 2 in scene 1 it just goes to scene 2 automtically. That's just fine.

So during the intro I have a "Skip" button so you don't have to watch it if you prefer. The action attached to the instance of the button is:

on (release) {
_root.gotoAndPlay(216);
}

This goes 1 frame past the intro but doesn't go to the next scene. I was looking at gotoAndPlay and it says it can take a parameter of a (scene, frame) so I tried changing it to _root.gotoAndPlay("Main Menu", 1); but that didn't work either. The button doesn't do anything then.

Is there something wrong with the actionscript for the button or something wrong with my "Main Menu" scene?

Thanks for your time,

Chris

Hi,

You need to put a frame label on the first frame (or whichever frame you want to go to) within your scene, then your action within the clip can be,

_root.gotoAndPlay("yourFrameLabelName");

That worked just wonderfully! Thanks a lot!

Chris