# Is my TimerEvent preventing a gotoAndPlay?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/is-my-timerevent-preventing-a-gotoandplay/295919>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [September 7, 2009, 12:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/is-my-timerevent-preventing-a-gotoandplay/295919 "2009-09-07T12:55:25Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 7, 2009, 12:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/is-my-timerevent-preventing-a-gotoandplay/295919/1 "2009-09-07T12:55:25Z")

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I have a movie clip, asterixHolder, with multiple frames that is instructed, at times, to gotoAndPlay at a particular frame (where’currentSection’ is a number):

```auto
asterixHolder.gotoAndPlay("tween"+currentSection);

```

Nested inside asterixHolder is a clip called theAsterix that I want to continually rotate. I’ve been achieving this with a Timer Event:

```auto
var asterixTimer:Timer = new Timer(40, 0);
asterixTimer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, timerHandler);
asterixTimer.start();
function timerHandler(eventObject:TimerEvent):void {
    asterixHolder.theAsterix.rotation += 2;
}

```

However, when the TimerEvent code is included - or to be more precise, when the function timerHandler references asterixHolder - the previous code to send the clip to the appropriate frame does not work. Could anyone tell me why this is the case? It doesn’t seem logical that calling a nested clip should prevent the parent clip from doing anything.

I’m sure I’ve made a more fundamental mistake!

Thanks to anyone who can help.