using on(release) more than once in a movie/game

[Ffatty]

Hello,

I am making a game in Actionscript 2 where I need to open another "window" by pressing a button. The window is just a movie clip with some stuff on it, and a red X to "X" the window out.

It all works out until I "X" out the window, and try to re-open it with the button.



This is the actionscript code in my button:

on(release){
	_root.window.gotoAndStop(2)
}

Thanks in advance!

[Video Man]

First off I would suggest that you do not put any AS on any buttons. Give all the buttons an instance name and use that in the AS.
Put all the ActionScript in an "Actions" layer in the main timeline. Address all the button actions there.
Just remember that if you send the playhead to

gotoAndStop(2)

you may need a new Key frame, Actions layer, with a new action, which will:

open_btn.onRelease = function() {
	open window or whatever;
}

Video Man

[Ffatty]

thanks i didnt even think of putting the actionscript in the timeline

i tried using a movieclip with the code too, but that had the same effect.

thanks again!