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zodd
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October 27, 2006
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Movieclip.goToAndPlay no longer works in Flash 8 Professional

  • October 27, 2006
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I have several movies authored in Flash MX which have a single frame main timeline with buttons that control various movieclips in the frames using _root.movieclip.goToAndPlay() etc.
However, as I am gradually revising these and republishing as Flash 8 , I have noticed that clicking the button with an action of _root.movieclip.goToAndPlay() no longer works, whether I publish for Actionscript 1 or 2. If I publish as Flash 6 from within Flash 8 Professional they work fine.
Obviously the syntax has changed, but I must be dense because I can't figure it out from the documentation.
Would be very grateful if anyone can help me out with this.
Cheers
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Correct answer zodd
Tim -

Thanks for that - yes, I am dense, particularly as I spend a lot of time working in case-sensitive Linux environments. Checking my code, I noticed that I had a mixture of upper/lowercase renditions of goToAndPlay/gotoAndPlay in there.

However, it makes me think it wouldn't hurt if the debugger threw up an error if you mis-spelt a function. Or would that make likfe too easy???

Peter

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TimSymons
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October 27, 2006
Flash 8 is case sensitive.

_root.movieclip.goToAndPlay() should be

_root.movieclip.gotoAndPlay(); // Notice the lowercase "t" in goto

Tim
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zoddAuthorCorrect answer
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October 27, 2006
Tim -

Thanks for that - yes, I am dense, particularly as I spend a lot of time working in case-sensitive Linux environments. Checking my code, I noticed that I had a mixture of upper/lowercase renditions of goToAndPlay/gotoAndPlay in there.

However, it makes me think it wouldn't hurt if the debugger threw up an error if you mis-spelt a function. Or would that make likfe too easy???

Peter
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