MovieClips Question - Initialise before controlling?

Hey,

I’ve read a bit before about how sometimes clips need to be initialised but I’ve never come accross it unless I was doing some serious coding. But I’m having a basic problem now that I can’t figure out. I’m wondering if I’ve just never come accross this in Flash before!

I’ve a simple flash movie with a movieclip on it.

I simply want to start the movieclip playing using transition.gotoAndPlay(“start”); but it doens’t work if that code is placed on teh 1st frame of the movie. It does however work if it’s on the 2nd frame.

Here’s the .fla file with a very simple test case. I’m pretty sure I’ve done stuff like this many times before, so I’m really scratching my head.

Any ideas?