Making Button In Movie Clip Symbol Reference Main Scene
I set up a flash movie with a scroll pane moving a movie clip. When I place instances of buttons in that movie clip and apply actions to them, they are not working.
The main movie has only one scene, so my actions for the buttons in the movie clip contained in the scroll pane have the following properties: gotoandplay, scene 1, frame label, frame label in scene 1 I'd like to jump to.
Is there a reason, the actions applied to those buttons won't take me to the corresponding frame label in my main movie?
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Posted on: 11-23-2003, 06:24 PM
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package{
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}
---- end Button_mc.as
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I have a List Componant (menu1), which undergoes a motion tween, within the movie clip (drop_down), this list contains the names of the other scenes, and is designed to allow the user to pick what scene to play, which eventially leads back that that scene.
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The Code That Is On The Same Timeline As The List Component:
PHP Code:
menu1.addItem({label:"0.357", data:"0.357"});
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{
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//break;
}
}
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PHP Code:
on(release)
{
if (megaSelect == "null")
{
gotoAndPlay("Preamble", 1);
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else if (megaSelect == "0.357")
{
gotoAndPlay("0.357", 1);
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{
gotoAndPlay("7&7", 1);
}
else if (megaSelect == "Alabama Slammer")
{
gotoAndPlay("Alabama Slammer", 1);
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}
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