Silly question

1

I just got MX2004, and perhaps something has changed…

I have a movie clip with animation inside, named lets say spike. The first frame of this movie clip contains stop(). On the main stage, the movie clip fades in, and then I want it to play. In my old MX, this was simple; on the main timeline I would put spike.play() in a frame corresponding to when I wanted the movie clip to play. However, this doesn’t seem to be the case with MX2004. I know I am overlooking some goofy detail, so could someone please point it out?

2

It should be exactly the same… you must’ve forgotten something like the instance name or something

3

But i haven’t :sigh:

4

First, make EXTRA sure you’ve got an instance name (“spike”), then:

spike.gotoAndPlay(2);

Place that where ever you want it to start playing. Assuming of course that the stop() is on frame 1 inside the spike MC, and that you want it to start playing after that (frame 2).

5

Yea, I tried that too, nothing. I must be doing something really obvious, wrong. Oh well, I’ll just make my life difficult and do it all by frames :frowning:

6

are you using a screens/slides type of document? If so make sure that you arent using _root. references.