Playing a frame label in a parent

I was just getting used to actionscript 2 now 3 comes
along...
I have this segment of code:
this.parent.videoOne.gotoAndPlay("playing")
it doesn't work in AS3, in the parent I have a movie clip
instance called "viedoOne" with a frame labeled "playing". Anything
I do that doesn't involve movie clip instance names gets the job
done. But what else do I do to make this work when instances are
involved? Thanks

If you're lucky and things haven't moved around much when you
return, the posting right after this one in the forum, titled
"Target Path", may shed some light on things.

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I have a video in a frame that corresponds with the label "eight". i have a button on the timeline with the following code. i've tried it both gotoAndStop and gotoAndPlay and it doesn't work. thanks in advance for your suggestions.
on (press) {
gotoAndStop(eight);

use:
on (press) {
gotoAndStop("eight");

Frame Labels

Hi,
I am trying to link btns to movies (or frames) which lie
outside the movie in which said btn exists.
So Movie X contains Btn C. Btn C must link to frame 23 (ex)
on the main timeline, not inside itself (movie X)
So I have tried to do Frame Labels...
I titled the appropriate frame label (Movie Y)
I then on Btn C types AS... on release go to and play FRAME
LABEL, Movie Y, frame 1.
I would have thought this would work, but it didn't. Am I
missing something?
Am I on the right track or completely off base?
Thanks
Ren

Thanks
I can work with that,
I think my script was simply off as I wasn't saying anything
about the "root".
Going on this, if I were say 3 movies with in a movie, for
lack of technical terms, 3 movies in (the prior example, I am one
or two in) in my action script can I determine which level I go
down or up to?
Say can I go 3 levels in? So I skip mutiple timelines
essentially, if yah feel me?
If I can, would my script simply adress the one layer?
What I am trying to say is, if there is a
root(main timeline)
parent (main timeline too, not sure)
but then is there a way to go to movie X which is with in
Movie Y, which is with in Movie Z?
My logic tells me you can, what would be the script?

Frame Labels Effect Loading Time

Hi There,
I just began using frame labels vs frame numbers to tell the
playhead where to go. However, when I test the site to see how it
is, or publish it, it is taking 10-15-20 minutes to load.
: blink.
Anyone have any insight? The movie overall will have many
frames, but has none, only a few hundred active currently, but no
large files (pics,videos etc.) the file size of the .swf is only
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WTF?!
Anyone with insight please let me know.

RenMan3Grand,
> I can post it for you. PLease just shoot me your email,
> you know these adobe forum surfer types, they'll steal
> anything.
If I post my email, I'll get even more questions to my
personal inbox
that should be posted to the forums. ;) Head to my website,
quip.net, and
you'll find a contact page.
> the reason I went to frame labels, was to [...] save me
> time in any adjustments
Absolutely! Frame labels are definitely the better way to
go.
> if I get rid of frame lables, can I use frame numbers
when
> leaving a movie for it's parent timeline?
You can reference the frames of any timeline (that is, any
movie clip)
by number or by label name. Even the main timeline is a movie
clip, so your
best bet is to check out the Language Reference (Help docs)
for the version
of ActionScript you're using. Everything in ActionScript can
be described
as something called an "object," and objects are defined by
something called
"classes." Think of a class as the recipe, or blueprint, or
owner's manual,
that tells you what the object in question does. If you're
dealing with a
movie clip (including the main timeline), look up the
MovieClip class. If
you're dealing with text fields, look up the TextField class.
If you're
dealing with sound, look up the Sound class, and so on.
Generally, you'll see three categories: a) properties, which
are
characteristics of the object, such as width and height,
number of frames,
etc.; b) methods, which are things the object can do, such as
play(),
stop(), gotoAndPlay(), and so on; and c) events, which are
things the object
can react to, such as a mouse click, the end of an audio
file, new text
entered into a text field, and the like.
What you're talking about is the MovieClip.gotoAndPlay() or
gotoAndStop() methods, which accept either a frame number or
a frame label.
You can invoke any of the MovieClip class methods on any
valid movie clip
reference. That reference my be implied, simply because
you're *in* a
timeline keyframe, and the code simply says, for example,
stop(). In that
case, the movie clip reference is understood as, simply, the
movie clip in
which the code appears. That reference might, however, be
specified with a
prefix, such as a movie clip symbol's instance name:
someClip.stop(). Or a
special keyword, like "this": this.stop(). Or the
MovieClip._parent
property (.parent in AS3): this._parent.stop().
David Stiller
Co-author, Foundation Flash CS4 for Designers
http://tinyurl.com/dpsFoundationFlashCS4
"Luck is the residue of good design."
>
> I would imagine so, but I do not know the code.
>

Creating new buttons on different frame labels

can someone tell me if im doing something wrong or assigning
the as to the wrong frame?
first off i have all my buttons on frame 2. im creating a
real estate site and i have to have a couple links like HOME ABOUT
BUYING SELLING CONTACT, the thing though is that in the BUYING and
SELLING frames i want to add more sections and links but only on
these 2 other parts of my site. when i code it and add new buttons
to these sections though my movie plays over and over and over non
stop. heres my coding...
FRAME 1 preloader
Frame 2 has a frame label of home and all the buttons on a
diff layer, and AS3 on a different layer
Frame 3 has a frame label for about section
Frame 4 is my contact for example
so if i create a new button in the about frame label and just
add the code to the working as3 code on frame 2 my movie just plays
over and over and over again, and all i want it do do is act like
the other buttons and go to a different frame label down in the
time line. the only way i get it to work is if i have ALL my
buttons on frame 2.
frame 1
my preloader
frame2
home_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onHome)
function onHome(event.MouseEvent):void
gotoAndStop("home");
about_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onAbout)
function onAbout(event.MouseEvent):void
gotoAndStop("about");
etc....
etc...
i enter my btn code just like this and the buttons on frame 2
work but any new buttons i try and creat and put into different
frames othere then frame label "home" aka frame 2 wont work

correct.
there are lots of ways around it. but they all require the
object to exist when the code executes.
with as3 it's particularly easy to create objects, code for
them and then add them to the display list later when
needed.

Navigating to Frame Label in mc from main timeline

Lets say that in my main timeline, I have a number of frame
labels. On stage I have a movie clip (let's call it bg_mc) which
contains a tweened animation that has been looping repeatedly (so
it has its own timeline with its own frame labels).
I would like this to happen:
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opposite is true?
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Go to and Play won't play correct frame

I'm sure there's a simple answer to this one:
Scene 1: currently has 50 frames, will become my preloader
Scene 2: Working on now... Have a button instance that has a
Go to and Play command, which should link to the same scene, frame
71 (labeled "subhomeAbout"), to pull up the submenu
I've used the action:
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Since your button is its own (pre-compiled?) movie clip
within your movie, what you're requesting with the code
'gotoAndPlay("subhomeAbout");' is for the
button's movie clip to go to the frame within itself labeled
"subhomeAbout" where, I'm assuming, it does not exist. You have to
specify which movie clip should go to the frame labeled
"subhomeAbout," which, in your case, will be referenced as _level0,
_parent, or _root from the button. With the information you
provided, an example of what you probably need is:
on (rollOver) {
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Frame Label not found

I have an FLA with two scenes. The first scene is an
opening...at the end it goes to the next scene called Main.
On Main I have a series of buttons....that click to different
frame labels in Main.
When I play JUST the scene it works fine...but when it goes
from the opening into Main...I get this error on all the buttons:
ArgumentError: Error #2109: Frame label Board not found in
scene Main.
at flash.display::MovieClip/gotoAndPlay()
at ASIS4_fla::MainTimeline/onMouseClickBoard()
There is a label called Board...and it works with that scene
alone...any idea why it doesn't work when coming off the previous
scene.
Thank you in advance...

this is on the first frame of the scene...when I do test
Scene...it works great. But Test Movie I get that error
btn_boardcert.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,
onMouseClickBoard);
function onMouseClickBoard(event:MouseEvent):void
gotoAndPlay("Board");

RemoveChild at a specific frame or frame label?

How can I remove a child when it reaches a certain frame or frame label?

You need some way of detecting which frame the child is on.
There are probably a few ways of determining that a child is on a certain frame. One would be to have the child dispatch an event when it reaches that certain frame and have a listener assigned for that in the parent timeline.
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Frame Label Variable

Is there any way that I can address a frame label using a variable? When I don't have a label in quotes, isn't it expecting a number?
sym.stop("labelname");
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I've attached a link to a modified version of the Go To Label sample that shows what I'm trying to do. I changed all the "stops" to "plays" so that it plays continuously. I notice that the buttons work correctly at times but not always. For instance, if you let it play on its own without clicking any of the buttons until it reaches "Stop 3" and then click the prev button it will go all the way back to "Stop 1" instead of "Stop 2". It does the same when applied to my project.
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http://www.yousendit.com/download/UVJpNWNucVhRYStFQk1UQw

Wanting to navigate with frame labels...

Hello,
I'm not too sure if this is difficult to most people or not,
but I have not been able to find a working solution. Here is the
situation:
I have a parent SWF file ("index.swf") that loads external
SWF files. In a couple of my external SWF files, I want to have a
few different frames that all have unique text content. I am
wanting to gotoAndStop on a frame using buttons. However, the frame
I want to go to is in Scene 1 of the external SWF file, and the
button lies in a movie clip within Scene 1. I have tried the
following code:
b1.onRelease = function() {
_root.gotoAndStop(2);
It seems to work fine when I test that SWF file, but when I
test it within "index.swf" (parent) it goes to frame 2 of
"index.swf" instead of the external SWF file that it is supposed
to. I have also used the following code:
b1.onRelease = function() {
gotoAndStop("frameLabel");
This does not work at all. The frame label name has been set
on the top layer of 4 layers (including the actions layer). I was
under the impression that if I had a unique frame label name on a
particular frame, that function would work.
To sum it all up, I'm am wanting the externally loaded SWF
file to basically switch between its own frames based on buttons
clicked within the external SWF file, without it effecting the
parent movie ("index.swf"). Any help would be awesome! Thanks in
advance!
Elijah

when you load your external swf files you have to load them
into things that have instance names. by addressing the movies by
their instance name you can make the code work on them.
your loader code might look like:
my_mcl.loadClip("
http://www.macromedia.com/software/drk/images/box_drk5.jpg",
clip1_mc);
in which case your code to control that clip would look like:
clip1_mc.gotoAndPlay("myFrameLabel");
or, if your button was on a timeline that was a child of the
timeline that contained clip1_mc
_parent.clip1_mc.gotoAndPlay("myFrameLabel");
or if you didnt know how many levels down your button was:
_root.clip1_mc.gotoAndPlay("myFrameLabel");
using root will, however, stop working if you ever load this
movie into another movie
luck
jon
ps i was too slow it seems :(

Using Frame Labels

I want to use buttons to move the play head from one frame
label to the next on the main timeline.
I get the following error:
TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of
a null object reference.
at Intro_fla::MainTimeline/Intro_fla::frame6()
What am I leaving out. It was so simple in AS2.
there are three buttons with instnce names: InArticleBnt,
InVideoBnt, backBnt
there are three frame labels: intro, video, article
// The buttons listeners
InArticleBnt.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, article);
InVideoBnt.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, video);
backBnt.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, intro);
//the button with the labels I want them to go to.
function article(event:MouseEvent):void {
this.gotoAndPlay("article");
function video(event:MouseEvent):void {
this.gotoAndPlay("video");
function intro(event:MouseEvent):void {
this.gotoAndPlay("intro");

http://207.8.191.165/development/Intro.fla
I need to declare the object for the button to target but I
have no idea how to do that. I took a guess. But there is still an
error.
I have decided to make each section a movieClip and load them
into the one frame using the buttons. Instead of using frame labels
on the timeline. I do not have any more time to mess with something
this incredible simple. The problem appears to be trying to do
something that worked fine in AS2 code needs to be rethought and
planed differently in AS3. For goodness sake asking the playhead to
respond to a mouseEvent and go to a frame label on same time line
as the button calling the event should not require writing a
dissertation in code.

If / Then for Buttons to go to Frame Labels?

Hello.
I'm asking for some hand-holding on this one. Hopefully I can explain this well enough.
I have a complex button that when rolled over the playhead goes to Frame Label textOut.
When a roll out is executed, the playhead is to go the Frame Label textIn.
Easy enough.
mcBtnHome1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER, dropText);
function dropText (evt:MouseEvent): void
mcBtnHome1.gotoAndPlay("textOut");
mcBtnHome1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OUT, raiseText);
function raiseText (evt:MouseEvent): void
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mcBtnHome1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, landHome);
function landHome (evt:MouseEvent): void
mcBtnHome1.gotoAndStop("textStay");
The problem occurs when I plug in the third event, the click. I click the button, and the playhead moves to Frame Label textStay, as it's supposed to, but once I roll out/ off of the button, the roll out action is again executed. Once I click on the button, no more interaction is supposed to be possible.
This happens despite my having a stop(); action at the textStay frame.
I'm guessing I need an if / then of if / else statements, with some true / false declarations, but I've no clue as to what "if's" I should be checking for.

In your click function you could remove the ROLL_OUT listener, and then reassign it when you get to your textStay frame.
(Edit - actually, you probably want to assign that ROLL_OUT listener in the ROLL_OVER function at all times)
mcBtnHome1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER, dropText);
function dropText (evt:MouseEvent): void {
     mcBtnHome1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OUT, raiseText);
     mcBtnHome1.gotoAndPlay("textOut");
function raiseText (evt:MouseEvent): void {
     mcBtnHome1.gotoAndStop("textIn");
mcBtnHome1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, landHome);
function landHome (evt:MouseEvent): void {
     mcBtnHome1.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OUT, raiseText);
     mcBtnHome1.gotoAndStop("textStay");

Cs3 bug - global objects and frame labels

Just found a bug that took me an hour to figure out.
A strange problem occurred when I had a global object and a
frame label named the same.
Example:
_global.discussion = new Object();
//lots of functions here
I was directing the timeline of a movieClip to the frame
label "discussion". On this frame there were a number of actions
involving the discussion object. However, flash was treating the
object as if it didn't exist. All variables / functions residing in
this object were completely gone. Has anyone seen this problem. If
not, watch out for it.
james

that's coder bug, not a flash bug.

Wacky problem with Frame label

I have a menu set up with three items. Menu item one has
"gotoAndPlay("video"), menu item two has
"gotoAndPlay("somethinghere") etc...
My menu items two and three always jump to the correct frame
label. I am having a problem with the first menu item.
When you click through the menu items slowly, content loads
in correctly, but it seems that if you click different menu items
too fast, the first menu item jumps back the main timeline to frame
1. My menu is inside of a movieclip. This is where my frame labels
are.
Has anyone ever seen an issue like this before or know how to
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