Trying to get the animation to play only though the play button.

[SuperCanoe]

I don't understand actions all too well. I'm trying to get my animation to play only when "play" is pressed, the whole thing plays by itself instead.

[JoãoCésar]

Hi.

You need to first stop the timeline you're trying to control and then add an event listener to a button to play the same timeline.

Here are code suggestions for both HTML5 Canvas and AS3 documents:

HTML5 canvas

var root = this;

root.start = function()
{
	root.gotoAndPlay(1);
};

if (!root.started)
{
	root.stop();
	root.yourPlayButton.on("click", root.start);
	root.started = true;
}

AS3

import flash.events.MouseEvent;

function start(e:MouseEvent):void
{
	gotoAndPlay(2);
}

stop();
yourPlayButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, start);

Regards,

JC