Multiple Scenes and Labels

Question

Basically what I'm trying to do is use the "page up" button to navigate to different labels on the timeline. The problem is that the labels are in different scenes (for example label_5 is in Scene 3). So each time I go to a label outside the scene, I get an error message.
var myLabels:Array = [ "label_1", "label_2", "label_3", "label_4", "label_5"];
var nextLabel:String;
stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN, keyPressed);
function keyPressed(evt:KeyboardEvent):void
switch(evt.keyCode)
case Keyboard.PAGE_UP :
    var inc:int = myLabels.indexOf (currentLabel);
    inc = inc < myLabels.length-1 ? inc+1 : 0;
    nextLabel = String(myLabels[inc]);
    gotoAndStop(nextLabel);
    break;
Is there an easy way to fix this?
Thanks so much in advance.

Answer 1

Scenes have never been a good idea - but if you must use them you'll need to do this different. Either use two arrays - one with the frames like you have now, and a second one with scene names. Or modify the array you have now to consist of an array of arrays - with the sub arrays containing frame,scene values. I'd probably use two arrays though as it's less to modify... something like so should do it.
var myLabels:Array = [ "label_1", "label_2", "label_3", "label_4", "label_5"];
var myScenes:Array = ["scene1", "scene1", "scene2", "scene3", "scene3"];
var nextLabel:String;
stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN, keyPressed);
function keyPressed(evt:KeyboardEvent):void
switch(evt.keyCode)
case Keyboard.PAGE_UP :
    var inc:int = myLabels.indexOf (currentLabel);
    inc = inc < myLabels.length-1 ? inc+1 : 0;
    nextLabel = String(myLabels[inc]);
    gotoAndStop(nextLabel, myScenes[inc]);
    break;
PS - no need to cast nextLabel to a string like you have - it already is a string in the array.