GoTo frame lable frustration

[ThomasJSmart]

This is realy anoying

its like this:

iv got a few scenes:

- main
- sub1
- sub2
- sub3

each scene has a framelable on the first frame with the name of the scene.

in main there's a button, when pressed the main scene playes from frame 2 to 10 and sets the variable _root.gopage to a scene name, (button1: _root.gopage = "sub1"; etc.)


now on frame 10 of the main scene i have a frame script.

this script should send the user to the appropriate scene based on the _root.gopage variable

iv tried the following:

gotoAndPlay(_root.gopage);
if i click sub1 it goes to sub2
if i click sub 2 it goes to the start of main

gotoAndPlay(_root.gopage,_root.gopage);
always sends me to sub1 no matter what i click

however gotoAndPlay("sub1","sub1" seems to work fine
except i cant realy use this

any help much apreciated,

thanks,
Thomas Smart



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[oldnewbie]

Are your buttons in a movie clip?

Can you post your .fla or a mockup?

Regards,

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[ThomasJSmart]

this is realy wyrd

iv made a copy of the fla file, without all the graphics and fancy buttons, just some black circles for buttons and the same scripting as the main fla.

and it works?!?!?!?

fla with graphics dont work
fla with graphics does work?!?

exactly the same setup, scripts and MC's

perhaps mx is still a tad buggy?


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[ThomasJSmart]

aha!

this seems to work:

gotoAndPlay(eval(_root.gpage));

I learned a bit yesterday, today i learned a lot, imagine what i'll learn tomorrow!

 

[billwatson]

fed up saying it....but if you will use scenes look out for unexpected problems



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[frozenpeas]

Here, here.

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