ActionScript 2.0 :: Cannot Call MovieClip Within Button
May 26, 2010
I have to do a Flash ad in AS 2 with a button that flashes a few times (with a delay) and then stops. I've made this as a movie within a button in the main time line. The only ActionScript in the movie is a stop(); on frame 1, and a gotoAndStop(1) on the last frame. The second frame of the movie is labeled "playShine." In the main timeline on the actions layer, I try to play the movie using:
traceNow_btn.shineNow_mc.gotoAndPlay("playShine");
But the movie won't play. The button name, the movie name, and the frame label are all cut and pasted from the actual instance/label names. (It does play once if I remove the stop() on the first frame, so it must be something about the call that's not working). I've tried substituting gotoAndPlay(2); but that doesn't work either.
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