function not directing to named keyframe 1

[markdmac]

Hope someone can help me. I am fairly new to flash. My experience thus far has been editing template FLA files. I am now int he process of creating a text based adventure game from scratch. I am following examples in the Beginning Flash Game Programming book by Andy Harris.

I have a keyframe in Layer 1 Frame 1. There is text and a button that I have named "btnStart". 10 frames later I have another keyframe, that one is labeled "start".

I am using Adobe Flash CS. I have set the publish settings to use ActionScript 2.0.

In my Actions panel under Actions-Frame I have selected Layer 1 Frame 1 and entered the following code.

stop();
btnStart.onRelease = function(){
  _root.gotoAndStop("start");
} // end onRelease

I publish or use Ctrl+Enter to test. My button changes color as it should when I hover or click on it, but I am not directed to the "start" frame as expected when I click and release. There are no "compile errors" listed in the IDE. Can anyone see anything wrong with what I am doing? Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

[oldnewbie]

That should work... Can you attach your .fla?

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[markdmac]

The FLA file has been uploaded to

http://www.thespidersparlor.com/downloads/Quest.fla.

Thanks oldnewbie.

 

[oldnewbie]

It does work... Hit the specter or one character in the text...
The problem is that you have a button, btnPlay, within another button, and that won't work...

If you set the startButton as being a movie clip (with only one frame rather than the 3 you now have) and use the following after giving the instance name of btnPlay to your play button...

stop();
btnStart.btnPlay.onRelease = function(){
_root.gotoAndStop("start");
} // end onRelease

Then that works... But I would do it as you have done it with the other buttons on the start frame...

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[markdmac]

Thank you! This was driving me crazy. I honestly don't fully understand everything you were saying about having a button inside another button, but I deleted the button on the first frame, removed the frames in between it and the next named frame and after adding back in my button, sure enough it works like a charm. Thank you for your help. Now I can move on with the project.

I hope you find this post helpful.

Regards,

Mark

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[oldnewbie]

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[markdmac]

For anyone interested in seeing the work in progress:

http://www.erecrex.com/adventure/adventure.htm

I hope you find this post helpful.

Regards,

Mark

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