Should be simple :-(

[tozstyle]

hi peeps,

I'm having trouble with something that should be simple ( probably just me )

in my scene I have 10 frames , each frame is stopped and runs a separate movie within each frame. the movie on frame 1 is called "movie1" and has 40 frames within it. On frame 10 on the main timeline ( root ) I have a button called "gohome" (in the instance name) that I would like ( once clicked ) to take the user to frame 20 within "movie1" movie on frame 1 ( I have labelled frame 20 "new" ).

I thought the script should look something like this

gohome.onRelease = function() {
_root.movie1.gotoAndPlay("new");
}

but It won't do anything,

If i do

gohome.onRelease = function() {
_root.gotoAndStop("start"); <--- btw "start" is frame 1's label
}

then it works, in as much as it plays "movie1", but...... i am trying to start the movie half way through on the users second time round.

Please help it's driving me nuts.

Thanks

[rdoyle720]

If I'm understanding you correctly, you're trying to click a button on frame 10 and have it control "movie1", but movie1 isn't on frame 10, it's on frame 1. Correct?

If that's right, something has to be on the stage at the time of the action in order to control it. Flash says "movie1? movie1 isn't here now." So, instead you'd want to go to the frame that movie1 is on and THEN tell it to do something. To do that, you'd do something like:

gohome.onRelease = function() {
_root.gotoAndStop("start"); 
replay=true;
}

Then on frame 1, you'd have something like:

var replay;

if(replay==true){
movie1.gotoAndPlay("new");
}

[tozstyle]

Thankyou Thankyou Thankyou Thankyou Thankyou Thankyou Thankyou

GREAT !


works perfectly - I will never forget this advise !

THANKS


Tozstyle