Simple Button, What Am I Missing!

[Tiziano]

This is really got me stumped. Two years ago I was pretty confident in MX2004 but have been away since 2006. Now I have CS3 and have 'lost it.'

I have a button with a gotoAndPlay behavior on it and it just won't work.
I even cut and pasted from another doc that I made that does work but then it gets in this one and it doesn't work.

Attached is the file. My pride hopes it's a bug :m:

[dwpegues]

are you forgetting about the onmouseevent() ? if you just put gotoandplay on a button you are obviously gonna run into problems. as well, put code on button on timeline. if you are embedding the code, then the procedure could be different. depends.

later

[Huinoio]

It's probably just a scope thing with refering back to the main timeline from within the button event. Anyway, I never do that so can't say for sure, but I'll show you what I do that works. On the first frame you have a stop(); command. Take the actionscript stuff off the button and put it under frame one so it looks like this:

stop();
myBtn_btn.onRelease = function(){
gotoAndPlay(5);
};

make sure you name that next button myBtn_btn to match the event. That should work all day long.

[Tiziano]

Thanks all but I figured it out. I had accidentally checked 'Export for ActionScript' in the linkage panel when I created the button.

Unchecked and all works as expected.