# Skip frames doesn't work

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/skip-frames-doesnt-work/278715>\
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**Created:** [January 4, 2009, 12:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/skip-frames-doesnt-work/278715 "2009-01-04T12:08:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![JeffGrafix\_nl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/4da419/32.png) [@JeffGrafix\_nl](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/JeffGrafix_nl)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2009, 12:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/skip-frames-doesnt-work/278715/1 "2009-01-04T12:08:00Z")

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Hi all,

I’m having trouble skipping some frames in my swf.

I’ve got some tabs that are filled with an XML attribute named tekst. Now with some basic actionscript, I do a check t see if any attributes are undefined. If so, leave the dynamic textfield blank and set the \_alpha of that specific tab at 0; this all works fine.

The only thing I want to achieve is, when say only tabs 1 and 2 are filled, I want to start the animation over after tab 2 has finished. At the moment the animation plays all 5 tabs and then starts over.

I tried a ‘simple’ myMC.gotoAndPlay(5), but this didn’t work. (5 is the framenumber from which the animation must start). I thought maybe I’m calling something that isn’t there, so I tried only gotoAndPlay(5); this didn’t work either, because my MC with all the animations is not on the .root timeline.

Anyone here who could help me with this?