Help with some basic understanding

Question

hi all,
i am not able to understand one thing in flash - i have a
button on layer1 frame 15. i gave that button an instance name of
btPlay. now when i am defining the following function on Layer2
frame 1 - btPlay.onPress = function () {
mcPlay.gotoAndPlay(2);
it doesnot work. it does not take the actionscript but when i
define the above function on Layer2 frame 15, then it works. I am
not able to understand this. an article on adobe site about the
best practices of flash clearly says to define all the actionscript
on a seperate layer and on the first frame but in my case it does
not work. i have flash 8 pro.
please help.
thanks,
gaurav

Answer 1

The reason it doesn't work is because your button doesn't
show on the stage
until frame 15. If you expand the actionscript on layer frame
to frame 15
when you button comes on to the stage, it will work.
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"gaurav_ch" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> hi all,
>
> i am not able to understand one thing in flash - i have
a button on layer1
> frame 15. i gave that button an instance name of btPlay.
now when i am
> defining
> the following function on Layer2 frame 1 -
btPlay.onPress = function () {
> mcPlay.gotoAndPlay(2);
> }
> it doesnot work. it does not take the actionscript but
when i define the
> above
> function on Layer2 frame 15, then it works. I am not
able to understand
> this.
> an article on adobe site about the best practices of
flash clearly says to
> define all the actionscript on a seperate layer and on
the first frame but
> in
> my case it does not work. i have flash 8 pro.
>
> please help.
>
> thanks,
>
> gaurav
>