how do I make movie clips invisible on load?

[rockjock04]

I had this going before but I forget now, and I'm up real late and its really pissing me off.

Lets say I have a box and I dont want it to be seen when the movie starts. I name its symbol box and its instance name box1

I have frame actions box up and I double click "evaluate" and then choose box1 from the target browse function.

immediately after _root.box1 I insert _visible=false;

so it says

_root.stick_visible=false;


But when I preview my movie it isn't working. HELP!!! Its eating my up.

[buzza_gts]

I find it best if you make your object a movie clip and inside that movie clip the first frame is empty with a Stop(); action inside it.

When you want this object to be seen you can just instruct the movie clip to gotoAndStop (2);

hope this makes sense

[20 Ton Squirrel]

Buzza's suggestion is a good one for a non-script way of hiding clips. It's also a great way to keep backwards compatibility if yer publishing down to things like *shudder* F4.

The movieclip object does indeed have a _visible property that works like a dream. To get it to work all you'd need to do is something like:

_root.stick._visible = false;


Without that period there it treats your statement as a variable assignment:

_root.stick_visible = false;

[nic]

maybe the instance of "stick" mC is not actually in the timeline, by the time you go _root.stick._visible=false;

check your load order (publish settings/ load order: "top to bottom"?) maybe::