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igotdamaged
09-06-2003, 12:28 PM
I have a movie...

Frame 1 of the movie has a 'stop' command.

It also has a button, which when clicked advances the playhead to frame 2 of the movie.

Within frame 2, there is a movie clip which automatically begins playing once the frame is entered.

The movie clip plays as expected, but when it reaches the final frame, I want it to advance the movie onto scene 2

I have tried going to the final frame of the video clip, inserting a keyframe and adding:

gotoAndPlay("Scene 2", 1);

Unfortunately, when the playhead reaches this point it chooses to ignore this code and instead just keeps looping my movie clip.

I have set up Scene 2 already, so I would be able to tell if the movie was getting that far - it isn't.

I know that the playhead is reaching the final frame of the movie because if I insert a 'stop' command, the movie does just that!

Is there a special way of jumping to the next scene from within a movie clip?

Thank you very much for your time!

damaged

Billy T
09-06-2003, 12:51 PM
gotta target the right timeline

_root.gotoAndPlay("Scene 2", 1);

cheers