Simple Play Button Help

[Guest]

Hi, I'm really new to flash and I have just completed an animation.  I would like to add a play button at the beginning of the animation that plays the whole thing through.  My buttons name is playbutton_btn and all the animation starts on frame 2 (frame one is a blank frame in all layers but the actionscript on the button.)  here is the code I have so far (in the first frame of the animation.

stop();
playbutton_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, playit);
function playit(event:MouseEvent):void {
    gotoAndPlay(2);
}

This is in the hope that it will stop when played and prompt the viewer with the play button screen and when clicked play the animation through to the finish.

I get the error:

1120: Access of undefined property playbutton_btn.

If anyone could give me a hand or point me in the right direction that would be great:).

Cheers.

[Ned Murphy]

The code is fine.  Is the button also in frame 1, and is it assigned the instance name the code uses?

[Guest]

Yep the button is dead centre in the middle of the screen on frame 1.  What do you mean by assigned the instance the code uses?

[Guest]

Yep the button is dead centre in the middle of the screen on frame 1.  What do you mean by assigned the instance the code uses?

[Ned Murphy · Accepted solution]

The code uses "playbutton_btn" as the instance name for the button.  Did you assign that name to the button in the properties panel (where it says <Instance Name>)

[Guest]

Ah I found where you mean, you where right, I had'nt changed the instance name.  Works fine now:).  Thanks for your help.

[Ned Murphy]

You're welcome

[Ned Murphy]

Since the error you are getting isn't the error I would expect for what I am having you check anyways, I have a suspiscion that you need to go into your Flash Publish Settings and be sure to select AS3 as the actionscript version.  I suspect it is not currently so.

[leo240861267932]

hello Murphy very cool tip

how to a make the action script code for more thant one button in the same actions layer

how do i make more statements in the same action layer

  

please help me

regards 

leo

[leo240861267932]

it gets this error

Scene 1, Layer 'action_green', Frame 1, Line 7, Column 10 1021: Duplicate function definition.

[kglad]

@leo240861267932 

this is from 2010 and ned is long gone to maine tending his apple (tree) orchard.