Help! with the with action...

[meredith]

I am using FlashMX.
I am readjusting to the 'with' action and I am having problems targeting from within nested MC's.
Here's the situation:
_root.floor_2.unit207W

this is the path and inside unit207W there is a button.
When clicked, I need it to go to a new scene.

I have this as my code, and it does not work....
The trace I set up after the path works, but it does not go to the new scene...

on (release) {
with (_root.floor_2.unit_207W) {
gotoAndPlay("unit_207W",1);
}
}

Am I even doing this right to begin with? Or is there another way????

HELP!!!!!

Thanks in advance!

[nunomira]

on (release) { 
_root.floor_2.unit_207W.gotoAndPlay("unit_207W",1); 
}

should be the quickest way.

first of all, don't use "_" not "-" with instance names

then, read
this thread on scenes

[gparis]

the "with" is mainly used when multiple action target only one movieclip. If you have only one command you so not really need it.
All the "goto scene" has been covered a lot in this forum. And the result is that it is better in all cases to use labels instead of scene names and frame numbers which most of the time only work when called and executed from the same timeline.

so this should work better:
_root.floor_2.unit_207W.gotoAndPlay("label");

Now, even, if this action is calle from that timeline (you said the button was inside "_root.floor_2.unit_207W")
this should be enough:
this.gotoAndPlay("label");
or
gotoAndPlay("label");

gparis

[senocular]

Originally posted by nunomira

first of all, don't use _ not - with instance names

?

[nunomira]

is this supposed to work?

_root.mymc-1.gotoAndStop(2);

and I've had problems with "_" the first and only time I used it.

there is something like a "white paper" which mentions that.

or would you like to explain better your idea?

[senocular]

I didnt see any "-"s in the original path and you left off (which I now assume to be a typo) the "_" in _root, which is what I thought that quote was refering to, the "-" just being a part of the grammar extending your sentance...

[nunomira]

that was definitely a typo!
and the lack of quotes, lazyness!

[meredith]

it works, but are you saying not to use underscores ("_") in instance names?

[senocular]

it was about using "-" in instant names, not "_"
underscores are fine, dashes shoulf be avoided.

[nunomira]

look here