I need help with an auto-page advance.

Question

I'm sure I'm doing something wrong. I have a program with 32 pages. Each page is a movie clip with text and images (with motion tweens) and sound. I want one page to play, then the next to play, etc. I have a stop(); at the last frame of each page_mc to kep it from looping. I tried this code butit does not work:
page01_mc.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,nextPage);
function nextPage(event:Event):void
gotoAndStop("page02_mc");
Help! (PS: I'm a novice at Flash CS4 and AS3)

Answer 1

What you can try is to dispatch an event at the end of each movieclip and have listners waiting for the event for each as you move down the timeline.  For instance, let's say each frame of your main timeline is a different page movieclip.  At the end of each movieclip place this line of code:
dispatchEvent(new Event("START_NEXT"));
Then, on the main timeline, for each frame you create an event listener for the current mc.  If your first mc instance name was mc1, then in its frame you would have...
mc1.addEventListener("START_NEXT", playNext);
And since the timeline is arranged one mc per frame, the playNext function could be made generically so that all movies could use it...
function playNext(e:Event):void {
play();
Since you are using frame labels, then you would probably devise some other means for advancing, but the same dispatch/listener scenario could still drive the call to move on.