gotoandPlay problems

programming flash
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How do I tell a specific movieClip to gotoandPlay when I’m in another movieClip? I have tried defining the paths and I can get anything but gotoandPlay to work. I’ve posted .fla’s to illustrate what I can’t get done.
Thanks,
Joesighting

They are on another thread I posted.
http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=71205

2

posted where?

3

double check that all your clips have instance names. Then start at _root and set the path to your specific movie clip, for example

_root.someclip.someotherclip.myspecificclip.gotoAndPlay(2);

:hr:

4

Woops

They are on another thread I posted.
http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/s...ead.php?t=71205

5

link doesn’t work :frowning:

6

http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=71205

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I have a main page (mainexample.swf) which has a button on it and an empty movieClip with an instance name of “content”.

The button’s script is

on (release) {
loadMovie(“dragexample.swf”, “content”);
}

It opens “dragexample.swf” into the empty movieClip “content”.
Simple enough and it works fine.

Then “dragexample.swf” has two objects in it, a movieClip with the instance name of “circle” and a movieClip with the instance name of “square”.

The movieclip circle has a button in it with this script on it.

on (press) {
startDrag("_root.content.circle");
}
on (release) {
stopDrag();
if (_root.content.circle._droptarget == “/square”) {
_root.content.circle.gotoandPlay(“shake”);
}
}

“shake” is referring to a frame label of the button which contains an animation to load when “circle” is dropped over “square”.

My problem is getting the script to carryout the “gotoandPlay” command, and I assume it has something to do with the paths.

Any help would be appreciated.

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This is nitpicky and you probably already have this but in your code above you wrote gotoandPlay when it should be gotoAndPlay (capital A in and).

Otherwise - did you try setting the entire path for square?

I don’t have flash here so can’t look at your file. :frowning:

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Ok so I figured it out finally, with the help from a cousin of my brothers friend who is a programmer. LOL We took a different approach, but it works perfectly. I thought I’d post it in case anybody might need it.

on (press) {
*unloadMovieNum(1);
*startDrag(this);
}
on (release) {
*stopDrag();
*if (this._droptarget.indexOf("/square") >= 0) {
**gotoandPlay(“shake”);
*}
}

The reason I do a .indexOf("/square") … is because the actual value is probably something like content/square … but since i don’t know exactly what it is, this works.* Also, all that “root.content.circle” stuff didn’t ever seem to work for me, so I changed it to “this” … that way it is a relative object and it won’t matter what context it is in.

Thanks to everybody who gave me input.

Joesighting