flash actionscript: Hi, I am encountering a weird occurance with the gotoAndPlay action. When I
load an external swf into a target clip, I am trying to tell the movie to go to
a specific frame label based on a variable - gotoAndPlay('scene_' + variable);
Each scene begins with a label such as scene_1, scene_2, etc. On loading the
movie the script to gotoAndPlay the appropriate label seems to be failing and
it always plays scene_1, even though debugging has shown that the variable is
clearly not 1. Has anyone had any problems using the gotoAndPlay action across
multiple scenes? Thanks.

For your gotoAndPlay() to work, what goes between the '(' and the ')' can't
have addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, or other things. So,
first declare a variable with the value of 'scene_'+variable and then
gotoAndPlay that variable. For example: gotoframe =
'scene_'+Math.floor(Math.random()*10)+1; gotoAndPlay(gotoframe); Just curious -
how did you get the Author Icon?

Thanks for the tip! Unfortunately this didn't work. What is even more weird,
I only encounter this problem when viewing the SWF through a browser. Locally
it works fine and dandy. What is even more weird, I have buttons that jump to
different scenes, and they don't work on the first click, but they work on
subsequent clicks. Again, only through the browser. I fear something else in
the file is causing the weirdness. As for the Author icon, I don't know how I
got that or even what it means. Cheers!

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That is just plain incorrect.