come on guys it will take u 5 secs to answer this!

[longy]

hi guys

right this will sound stupid, as i have made 100's of buttons before, but this bugger aint working here goes.....

right i have a menu system basically i have a mainmenu MC,
then inside that i have my menu MC, and inside that i have
the actual button instances, right i want my button when clicked to goto and play frame 50 in my main time line

i use this code


on (release) {
gotoAndPlay ("Scene 1", 50);


but the button doesnt work


is this somehting to do with my buttons bieng inside two movie clips.
if it helps i am using flash 5

help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Ramses Design]

ok lemme back up a little, your button is within 2 movie clips, well just tell the target to use absolute path pointing to _root.


hope it helps


Ramses
VisualSin Studios

[longy]

i already tried using _root, never worked though m8, i should of said, man this is pissing me off,

Help!!!!!!!!

[deadbeat]

on(release){
_root.gotoAndPlay(50);
}

Should work regardless how many clips deep the button is...

K.

[longy]

hey thanks foa the help guys, i pasted your code deadbeat it worked fine, its must of been some breackets ****ing it up or somehting, as when i used the got action it kept putting them in brackets

cheers guys

[jeremym7]

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