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[alokwww]

Hi,
I have a movie clip with an instance name of topRight

In the movie clip, the first frame has a stop action and the animation starts on the second frame.

I have the movie clip placed on stage.

I want the movie clip to play when it starts but I'm trying to figure out the way to do it without taking the stop action out from frame 1 of the movie clip.

I've tried putting:
topRight.gotoAndPlay(2); and also
_root.topRight.gotoAndPlay(2);

neither one worked.

I also tried to make a blank movie clip on stage and put the following in it:

onClipEvent(load) {
_root.topRight.gotoAndPlay(2);
}

It still didnt work.

Anyone know where I may have gone wrong.

 

[oldnewbie]

Are you sure topRight is the instance name of your clip on stage, and not just it's Library name?

Regards,

 

[oldnewbie]

Is this a 1 frame main movie?

If so push your frame action on a second added frame to your main movie.

Regards,

 

[alokwww]

Thanks for your replies!

I still couldn't seem to get it to work.
If it might be easier, I uploaded the fla here:

http://www.alokw.com/tek-tips/msg3/one.fla

Thanks Again!
-Alok

 

[alokwww]

Oh, Never mind, I moved the code to the 2nd frame like you said and it worked. Sorry, I misread or something the first time.
Everything looks good now.

Thanks!
-Alok

 

[alokwww]

I actually have one more question; it doesn't have anything to do with the previous one but I just thought I'd conserve the threads se here goes:

I have a movie clip. On frame 20 I want it to stop and see how many times the movie clip has looped. If it has looped 5 times, I want it to go to frame 21. If it has looped 1,2,3, or 4 times I want it to go to frame 2.

Here is the script that I have so far:

for (var i = 0; i<5; i++) {
if (i == 4) {
gotoAndPlay(21);
} else {
gotoAndPlay(2);
}
}

It doesn't work though.
Anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks
-Alok

 

[oldnewbie]

Put a stop(); action on frame 20, followed by something like this...

stop();
if (mc_played >= 4){
    mc_played = 0;
    this.gotoAndPlay(21);
} else {
    this.gotoAndPlay(2);
    mc_played++;
}

Regards,

 

[alokwww]

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Thanks again oldnewbie!
If I could give you another star, I would!

Thanks!
-Alok