animation keeps running through. I want it to stop on main menu so i can click buttons

[Hannarayve005]

animation keeps running through. I want it to stop on main menu so i can click buttons which navigate to different scenes. Please help I am a noob.

here are screen shots of what i have going on:

Main time line "home" menu

script in frame 1

script in frame 48

scene 2 animation of shape tween which isnt supposed to run all the way through past the home page. I want it to animate but only after i click the button to do so.

script for this scene

scene 3 which is causing all the issues i think? supposed to be able to drag boxes. but it just runs through without stopping when i play it.

here is the compiler errors:

[Ned Murphy]

You need to fix the errors before the file will have a chance of playing right.  What is line 23 of frame 88?

If you have scenes then to find frame 88 you will have to add the frames starting from frame 1 of scene 1

[Hannarayve005]

i dont have an 88th frame but it was referring to my

gotoAndPlay(“home”)

on line 23 of the asin scene 3

[Ned Murphy]

How many frames do you have in each scene (reread my last posting's last sentence).

Also, that gotoAndPlay("home"); on line 23 of the last screenshot means you are not going to be staying in that frame at all.

[Hannarayve005]

i have 20 in scene 1

49 in scene 2

and 20 in scene 3

i got rid of the

gotoAndPlay("home"); on line 23

[Ned Murphy]

What about the same line that's in Scene 2?  It doesn't make sense to have a stop() and a gotoAndPlay() in the same set of code.

Do you still get that frame 88 error after removing the scene 3 line?

[Hannarayve005]

yes. the frame 88 error was gone after removing the scene 3 line.

i have fixed that problem.

i  removed the stop from scene 2 and added the Scene 1 in addition to the label "home" becaue it couldnt find it. Now the button to scene 2 doesn't work at all.

[Ned Murphy · Accepted solution]

If you removed the stop() from scene 2 it will not stop there it will return to wherever "home" is.

If you intend to have the timeline stop at some frame, then you need to place a stop() command in that frame, or use a gotoAndStop() command.

If you are going to use scenes  be consistent with the way you write the goto commands. The use of is rarely recommended - instead, use different sections of the timeline of just one scene, or use movieclips and control their visibility, or a combination of both.

If you continue to have issues, try simplifying first - build/add the navigation for one section at a time instead of trying to get it all in one shot.