Assigning Actions Withing a MovieClip

**pauland** · 08 June 2006, 11:00 PM

Originally Posted by Availor

Hey guys thanks alot for your help. I've read some books and the _parent thing is supposed to work, though I don't understand why it doesnt work for me :-)

My original suggestion was to use "_parent.nextframe (); ", Egg spotted my capitalisation error, since it should really be "_parent.nextFrame(); ".

The capital F really counts, so perhaps that's the problem?

Paul

**Egg Bramhill** · 08 June 2006, 11:12 PM

Availor,

If you let me know what version of Flash your using I'll upload a zipped fla file.

**Availor** · 10 June 2006, 01:15 PM

Until recently I had flash MX, now I've got Studio 8.

**Availor** · 10 June 2006, 01:21 PM

HEEEY It works!!!! Thanks all!!! Silly me, I forgot to assign stop(); to the first parent frame

nooby mistake but I guess we all started from somewhere....

So now it works just perfect!

Can I use gotoAndStop (_parent , 1); synthax somehow?

**pauland** · 10 June 2006, 04:38 PM

Originally Posted by Availor

Can I use gotoAndStop (_parent , 1); synthax somehow?

Well, if you use that in a nested MovieClip, all that will happen is that you'll keep returning to frame 1 of the _root (ie the main movie) timeline and get nowhere.

Glad it now works - go with what you've got to work.

Paul

**Availor** · 10 June 2006, 07:23 PM

I gave frame 1 as an example, it can be 2 or 3 or "instancename".

I purchased several courses from CartoonSmart.com and several books regarding actionscript and flash issue. They all tend to create too many frames.
I wanted to work this way becuase it's easier to change content.

**Availor** · 10 June 2006, 08:23 PM

I figured it out!

The easiest synthax would be:

on (release) {
with (_root) {
gotoAndStop ("Instance");
}
}

Hope that it will help some of you as well :-)