Movie Clip operation

Guys, can anyone help?

I'm trying to get a series of movie clips to play on the main timeline of my flash project. I've read up about hierarchy but everything I seem to write in the actionscript doesn't work - I don't know what I'm doing wrong!

Basically I have the main timeline with my menu on, with buttons that are supposed to link to the movie clips on the same timeline, but it just isn't working. I have the instance names for the movies but the buttons can't seem to find them!

This is what I have so far:

on (release) {
targetpath("london");
gotoandPlay("1");
}

I hope this is making sense.

Cheers in advance,

Harry_028

try

on(release){
london.gotoAndPlay(1);
}

either way make sure the london mc exists on the frame that the button calls that code on.

good luck and welcome to FK :D

Ok cool, thanks for your advice but it still doesn't work. I'm still trying to fathom Flash MX out in this area. My movie clips are all on the same timeline as the buttons, with instance names so I should just be able to tell it where to play right? I've tried all the combinations I can think of but if the actionscript has no errors it doesn't work and when it does I can't rectify it!!!

Frustrating...

Yeah flash has quite a learning curve.. Is this actionscript 1 or 2?

It's 2.

can u post an example .fla?