Assigning Action To An Object

[legobadass]

in my scene, i am trying to have water constantly animated while a butoon animation plays when it is clicked. i want to know if there is a way to assign an action like gotoAndPlay (2) to a certain instance. at the moment when i say gotoAndPlay 2, the water animation stops while the button animation is going on.

[Esquared]

You'll need to put the water animation inside a movie clip, and then have that movie clip span the frames of the timeline that your button animation is on.

[legobadass]

ok this might get confusing. i spanned the water animation out, but then when i click the button, the animation coming from the button needs to stop. so i put a stop(); in and it stopped the water animation too. is there a way to fix this???? thanks for replying by the way.

[Esquared]

I'm sure what you're trying to do is managable, though I must admit that I don't fully understand your description. Try posting the .fla so I can look at what it is you're trying to do.