Me: New to Flash/Actionscript. Learning just enough to explore to put up an object I believe would work better in Flash.
I would like to implement a modified play button. I.e. press a button and have Flash play a certain number of frames in the timeline.
I don’t have a movie clip (at least I don’t think I do). I have two scenes: a preloader and a main… timeline. The main timeline is broken up in multiple “chapters”, delimited by “Labels”. By default the flash “movie” plays sequentially (and non-interactively) from beginning to end, one chapter after another.
I have implemented a play button using “play();”, a pause button using “stop();” and a rewind button using “gotoandplay(‘Scene 1’, ‘Label x’);”, all work great.
Now I would like to implement a set of navigation buttons using thumbnail images. Upon click (and release) of each thumbnail it would play a “chapter”, starting at frame number x and stopping at frame number y.
Tried variations including:
on (release) {
gotoAndPlay(“Scene 1”, “Start”);
if (_currentframe > 72) {
trace(_currentframe);
stop();
}
}
In the above, upon click of button, start playing at “Start” label thru frame number 72. Doesn’t work, the “_currentframe” evaluates to undefined or 3. The preloader has only 2 frames.
It appears that a movie clip instance would solve the issue as it would allow me to target the specific object to control.
I know I am missing a simple but vital concept as I haven’t taken the time to learn Actionscript the “right way” 
Help!
