Using buttons to control movies

programming flash
1

Hi,

This is the site I am working on http://sonisis.com/ss2

I have the menu on the outside top and right, this loads in to a movie clip called ‘contents’, the file home.swf.

The snow that appears is a movieclip within home.swf with an instance name of ‘snowfuzz’, what I want for when you click the film button on the menu (which is also a movie clip), is for snowfuzz to play to frame 6.

The code I have within the film button actions is as follows;

 
this.onRelease = function(){ 
_root.contents.snowfuzz.gotoAndPlay(6);

But, I’m getting nothing. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

2

Hmmm, that seems like it should work. Did you triple check all spellings of instance names? Flash is case sensitive too. :slight_smile:

Other than that, are you sure that home.swf has *completely *loaded before the film button can be hit?

3

Well if I’m working offline, the command should work regardless as the file’s already loaded locally, yeah?

Are there any really obvious things I may be overlooking? I’m a total newbie to Flash, so perhaps there’s something people wouldn’t even think to suggest?

4

post your main fla and the external swf

edit it could be where you have the code too. Is that on the button itself? or in it’s timeline? Try switching it to the main timeline and including the right path, e.g.

_root.film.onRelease = function(){ 
_root.contents.snowfuzz.gotoAndPlay(6);}