can't get gotoAndPlay work in HTML canvas

[nicholaslue]

on 1st frame of stage I have a symbol on the canvas.  The symbol has a this.stop(); on first frame of it. 

How can I get this to play from code on stage? 

this.symbolName.gotoAndPlay(2);  //doesn't work

var self = this;
self.symbolName.gotoAndPlay(2) // doesn't work

What am I doing wrong?

[ClayUUID · Accepted solution]

Did you actually name your symbol instance "symbolName"?

If you do console.log(self.symbolName) does it display the symbol or undefined?

Do you understand that in a Canvas document gotoAndPlay(2) will actually go to the third frame of a clip?

If your gotoAndPlay code is on the same frame where the clip first appears, it will fail because the clip hasn't fully initialized yet.

[nicholaslue]

The code was on the same frame as where the clip first appears.  I didn't know this was how it worked.  Thank you