gotoAndPlay won't go to certain frame labels? All because of a harmless mc?

Question

let's say I have a timeline with 5 keyframes, each labelled. Let's call them:

"one", "two", "three", "four", "five"

On all three I have a stop();

And on frame "one" I also command it to go to frame "two" with gotoAndPlay("two");

Test play, and it works.

Same works with gotoAndPlay("three") and "four", but when I try gotoAndPlay("five");

it somehow plays "four" instead. Stranger still is that when I switch the order of the keyframes to "one", "two", "three", "five", "four", it plays frame "five" just fine.

I isolated the problem thinking it was a stray code, but it wasn't.

It was a movieclip with no code, no linkage whatsoever. If it was there, the error was there. If I delete it, the error is gone.

What is this? I've never encountered such a problem.

Using Flash CS6.

kglad · Accepted Answer

Hm that would seem logical, the fact that it's trying to go to a frame that's not yet loaded.

Everything goes screwy when I try to load something past frame 50 (Note than within this 50 frames are actually lots of frames. Instead of a timeline filled with tweens and animations, I contain each scene in a movie clip.

Yes I am doing it when it first starts.

No, no preloaders.

So what's the solution here? Use a preloader?

I'm no coder so I don't know to make a prealoder, but would a 'title screen' of some sort help? A play button on the first frame so that it loads in the background first before I press the button to play the animation?

on frame 1 use:

stop();

this.loaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,gotoF);

function gotoF(e:Event):void{

gotoAndPlay("five");

}

// if that works, please mark helpful/correct responses

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thebangzats · Answer

UPDATE things got ever weirder.This mysterious 'harmless' movieclip was actually one of four inside another movieclip.Let's call them: A, B, C and D.At first I came to the conclusion that A was the problem, since the problem would disappear when I deleted A and not when I deleted B, C, D.In a strange twist, if I kept deleting and undoing, A would no longer be the problem. Now, B had to be deleted for the issue to go away. Then C, then D.This is weird.

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