use of gotoAndplay in AS 3.0

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July 5, 2007
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Hi,

I am learning and using as 3.0. It is really great.
But now I use some timeline scripts with author-environment created clips.
clipA contains clip B.
Under clip B, in the script layer, I want to tell clip A to go to frame 2 with the following script :
this.parent.gotoAndPlay("intro");

I got an error message telling that gotoAndPlay is not defined.

How can I make such a simple and usual function work?

Thanks

ActionScript

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Correct answer ritpas

Thanks sr817!

I didn't manage to do by using both of your soltion :
- inverting this and parent doesn't work and using a frame number doesn't use either.

At last, I centralized my code on the uppest level, so that gotoAndPlay is launched directly in the timeline contaning the concerned frame.

Cheers

S

sr817

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hello again ritpas,

This forum response may also be useful. It's a response to a similar post I made a few days ago:

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?forumid=15&catid=196&threadid=1281655&enterthread=y

Goodluck

R

ritpasAuthorCorrect answer

Inspiring

Thanks sr817!

I didn't manage to do by using both of your soltion :
- inverting this and parent doesn't work and using a frame number doesn't use either.

At last, I centralized my code on the uppest level, so that gotoAndPlay is launched directly in the timeline contaning the concerned frame.

Cheers

S

sr817

Participating Frequently

Hi ritpas,

I've been working in a similar way with AS 3.0, with gotoAndPlay(). Unless I'm not mistaken gotoAndPlay() is not looking for the name of the movieclip or object, but instead wants frame-number input.

In addition, I believe your syntax is slightly off. Instead of this.parent.gotoAndPlay(), I believe it is parent.this.gotoAndPlay(). You call the parent object first, then the "sub-object" located in the parent.

So instead of using the script:
this.parent.gotoAndPlay("intro");

try

parent.this.gotoAndPlay(frame_number); // where frame_number represents the frame you would like to play first.

Hope this helps,
Sam

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