RE: FLASH: GoTo Action failure (VERY creepy)

[Eric Smollin]

Hi Marcel.


>I'm building a preloader where each frame contains a  bitmap. Once a bitmap

>loads the timeline should progress to the next frame and load another

>bitmap. I have 18 bitmaps to load. On another layer there is a "skip

>preLoader" button with a GoTo action. The GoTo sends the playback head to

>frame 19 (frame 19 is where the course begins). 

>This is how the "skip" button action appears in the Object Inspector -

>On (Release)

>   Go to and Stop (19)

>End On


>The only other action(frame, button, or otherwise) in the entire movie is

>the Stop on the last frame.

>There is nothing on frame 19 except for a big ugly red rectangle just for

>debugging purposes. For some reason, the "Skip preLoader" button is not

>performing the action. See 4 yourself -

>swf file -http://www.trenchard.net/debug.swf

>fla file -http://www.trenchard.net/debug.fla


When I checked the .swf online over a T1 it jumped right to the red

rectangle. When I checked the movie in Flash with streaming turned on, I saw

what you described. The problem is that you are trying to go to a frame that

has not loaded yet. 


What you can do is make a Movie Clip (I am assuming that your course will

consist of one or more MC's) and put your red rectangle in that. Make sure

that the first frame of your MC is blank and there is a stop action in the

second frame. Place the rectangle in the third keyframe and label it

"rectangle" and give it a stop action. Now take that movie clip and drag it

to the main stage, in the first frame of the bottom layer. Give it an

Instance Name of "Rectangle." Now, the MC will load even before the bitmaps,

and you give the "skip" button the following action:


On (release)

	begin tell target ("/rectangle")

		Go to and play ('/rectangle")

	End Tell target

End On


Before all of that you will need to give the button an action to go to a

frame that is blank (park it) or else the MC containing the rectangle will

load right on top of the intro screen.


Hope that made sense. If not you can email me off list and I will send you

back your .fla so you can see what I am talking (rambling) about.


-Eric-




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