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MrLeche
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December 9, 2006
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loadmovienum and gotoandplay help

  • December 9, 2006
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hi, my question is basically simple, it's just a GotoAndPlay from a LoadMovieNum... how can I trigger the button to control the main movie?

here's the scenario:

I have a movie called BgAndMenu.swf who has labels on frames 1, 50, and 100 named start, mid, and end respectively. Then it basically stops to frame 25 with a stop() actionscript then triggers another movie named content1.swf, the actionscript is LoadMovieNum content1.swf level 10. everything loads fine.

then on the content1.swf, there is a button that should trigger the movie to unload and basically should move the BgAndMenu.swf to the frame labeled mid. I can;t get it to happen this is the one I tried on content1.swf's button:

ist line on release (mouse event)
2nd line GotoAndPlay > frame label > mid
3rd line unloadmovienum > level > 10

when i hit the button, it unloads the content1.swf movie but doesn't move the main movie to frame "mid" I got the idea the button only tried to locate the frame mid on the content1.swf itself and not the BgAndMenu.swf

How do I make it possible? thanks!
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Correct answer kglad
2nd line should target _level0 and should use gotoAndPlay (case counts):

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kglad
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kgladCommunity Expert
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December 10, 2006
oh i understand using "easy mode" from flash 5 days when flash had helpful code suggestions. but once mm released flash mx (and easy mode disappeared) it became more difficult to avoid learning actionscript.
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MrLecheAuthor
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December 10, 2006
hi sir, yeah I get that a lot. But I started learning flash since 4 and never really had a formal study of actionscripting. I also didn't bother to look for changes but I have purchased 5.0, MX, MX2000( i think) and 8.

I'm still the old simple ac scripter which uses the same old gotoandplay, telltarget ifframeloaded loadmovienum and unloadmovie :)

For me it seems that kind of actionscripting which has dots and underscores are like programming to me. I started as a designer basically circles thru photoshop, flash and dreamweaver, lately I'm into PHP and MySQL but never had any programming languages before so I find really amazing when people just tell these codes by underscores and dots all in one line and voila, what I wnated to achieve is done in a zap.

kglad
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kgladCommunity Expert
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December 10, 2006
whoa, that's a major pain if you're going to use script assist. i had no idea how hard it is to use that until you asked your question and i opened flash to try it:

actionscript 2.0 classes/Movie/MovieClip/Methods/gotoAndPlay

object is _level0.

but i'd strongly recommend not using script assist. flash automatically colors it methods and keywords as you type them so you can catch typos/case mismatches etc by looking at the keywords as you type. if they're not colored, you mistyped. now check in the flash help file.
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MrLecheAuthor
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December 10, 2006
Hi, Thank you. Although I can copy paste your code into the actionscript field, Can you tell me how to do it with the "script assist" enabled? if it's not too much to ask. thanks!
kglad
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kgladCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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December 9, 2006
2nd line should target _level0 and should use gotoAndPlay (case counts):

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