I have this button called Contact in a Movie and I assigned to it the following action:

on (release) {
    _root.fx.gotoAndPlay(2);
    _root.mov = "4";
}

but it does not work at all.

If I delete the _root.fx. I get the movie to load from start.

All I want is to get it to play from the fx layer the frame number "4"

What am I doing wrong?



L Ion

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L Ion

If the button is in the same movie then use this

on (release) {
    _root.gotoAndPlay(4);
}

One thing you might consider doing is to add another layer and call it labels. Then label that frame 4 something like "play_movie". Then create your button action as

on (release) {
    _root.gotoAndPlay("play_movie");
}

Why do this? It creates a more dynamic button, that way you can add more frames without having to go back and figure out what frame number you need for your movie.

Thank for this.
I actually gave up on it last night after few hours of pain & hell.

What I did I I stack-up the layer in the same scene, label them and set the action without going to _root.fx......


L Ion