Trying to get the animation to play only though the play button.

Hi.

You need to first stop the timeline you're trying to control and then add an event listener to a button to play the same timeline.

Here are code suggestions for both HTML5 Canvas and AS3 documents:

HTML5 canvas

var root = this;

root.start = function()
{
	root.gotoAndPlay(1);
};

if (!root.started)
{
	root.stop();
	root.yourPlayButton.on("click", root.start);
	root.started = true;
}

AS3

import flash.events.MouseEvent;

function start(e:MouseEvent):void
{
	gotoAndPlay(2);
}

stop();
yourPlayButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, start);

Regards,

JC