Changing scene from within a movie

Ok, I’ve been struggling with this for an hour and my brain isn’t working today. Can one of you flash guru’s help me out?

I used to have a button with the code: gotoAndStop(“scene2”, 20);

Now that button is within another movie and pressing it won’t change the scene anymore. I’ve tried: _root.gotoAndStop(“scene2”, 20); but that doesn’t work. What’s the proper way to do this?

Thanks again,

-Sage

Got it!

movie.button.onRelease = function() { gotoAndStop(“scene2”,20)} in my actions section.

Thanks, posted too soon! =)

I’ve had a similar problem before now.

My solution was to create a function on the main timeline something like this:

function nextScene() {
gotoAndStop(“scene2”, 20);
}

Then the button code was:

on(release) {
_root.nextScene();
}

You could pass the frame and scene name as parameters to this function and make it more useful, like this:

function gotoScene(theScene:String, theFrame:Number) {
gotoAndStop(theScene, theFrame);
}

Personally I think this solution is a little better.

The reason for the issue is that code to change scene can only exist on the main timeline. You can’t get around this by using “with(_root) { }” either.

You can just use a frame label in that scene and go to that frame just as you normally would using a label. Treat it like any other timeline, and forget that it has different scenes. You want to avoid using frame numbers in many cases anyway, bad practice.

So arcane, you can still use frame labels and yet direct them to the specified frame even in different scenes? Because my game needs scenes badly :(

Yes, Flash compiles it down to one timeline. The scenes are just a means of visual organization for you. Treat it just like you would any other MovieClip timeline.

That’s handy to know – I’ll use that in future.

BTW Arcane, you are nearly on 1337 posts!

BTW Arcane, you are nearly on 1337 posts!

He just needs 1 post to be 1337. Boy, is he spamming like crazy :P

Thanks, arcane. This is gonna be handy to know a nifty trick like this :D

I hate scenes. Never use em. XD