Skipping scenes with buttons...?

[Orion33428]

My script doesnt work, which was

code:

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on(release) {

gotoAndPlay(5, 1);

}

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And I got an error, which i have no idea how to fix, again :P

code:

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**Error** Scene=Scene 3, layer=Instructions, frame=1:Line 2: Scene name must be quoted string

     gotoAndPlay(5, 1);



Total ActionScript Errors: 1 	 Reported Errors: 1

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Help would be appreciated, thanks~!

[oldnewbie]

Are you trying to target frame 1 of a scene named 5?

[Orion33428]

Yeah. o_o;

[oldnewbie]

Well, as the error reports, you need double quotes on the scene's name...

code:

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on(release) {

gotoAndPlay("5", 1);

}

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But, it's a bad idea to use a number only as a scene's name. Furthermore, since targeting scene names only works if everything is on the main timeline, you should NEVER target scene names, but labeled frames instead.

Thus label frame 1 of your scene "5", with an unique label (once again no number only labels or at least not starting off with a number, and don't use special characters other than the underscore!) such as mystart5 or whatever suits you, add _root to your path, and target that labeled frame in your button's script...

code:

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on(release) {

_root.gotoAndPlay("mystart5");

}

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Works like a charm!

[Orion33428]

It all makes sense to me, but (this might sound stupid x_x)
How do i label frames?

[oldnewbie]

You select the frame on the timeline and in the property inspector you'll see a box with < frame label >... That's where you would type it in. No doubles quotes here, just in the gotoAndPlay action on the button.