# Hm.. Why doesnt this work?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hm-why-doesnt-this-work/80231>\
**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [February 20, 2005, 6:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hm-why-doesnt-this-work/80231 "2005-02-20T18:46:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Joppe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b38774/32.png) [@Joppe](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Joppe)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2005, 6:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hm-why-doesnt-this-work/80231/1 "2005-02-20T18:46:55Z")

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I can’t figure out why this doesn’t work …

```auto
  
on (press) {
  _root.timer.gotoAndPlay("start");
   _root.nextFrame
}
 

```

It’s weird becouse the nextFrame is ingored and its just the timer who starts… Is it me who did something wrong or… ???

-Joppe