Loading Movie Clip problems

[Kelly G]

Ok... I know that I must be missing something fairly fundamental but I can't seem to wrap my brain around it.

Here is my concept idea:

I have a main timeline with a set of buttons and a movie clip.

When you hover over the various buttons, I am trying to get the movie clip to play and depending on the button hovered over, have the playhead in the movie clip go to a specific frame.

I have the movie clip placed on the main timeline with a stop action on the first frame so it won't play right away.

I don't know the proper syntax in actionscript to call the movie clip and direct the playhead to the correct frame.

I have tried the gotoAndPlay, and a couple of variations but I think my logic is flawed.

I would appreciate it if someone could give me direction (you don't have to actually give me the code).

Thanks very much.

[Marz]

Your logic wasn't totally flawed...

In ActionScript with Flash you must specifiy which object you do idneed wish to gotoAndPlay();

mcInstanceName.gotoAndPlay();

That should help ya out a little bit :)

[Kelly G]

Ok that makes sense and here is the script that I am using which is not getting me the results I am looking for.

Ok just in case my formatting is incorrect in terms of layers etc...

On a layer called "hover" I have placed the instance of the movieclip "names". The instance is called "m1" (just for purposes of trying to get this to work)

On a layer above "hover" I have placed the button that uses this script.

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on (rollOver) {
m1.gotoAndPlay(5);
}

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Frame 5 of the movieclip is where I want the clip to start playing.

As it stands now... I get nothing when I hover over the script.

As a test, I went into the movieclip and removed all the stop actions and then previewed the published file... the movie clip played and repeated fine.