problems with stop(), cant play _mc's more than once

[crabpot8]

i have two seperate movie clips that have been giving me the same problem. in both of them i have a stop() command on the last frame so that they only play once. one i call by using click.gotoAndPlay(1); and the other using line.gotoAndPlay("grow_line").

they both run great the first time they are on the stage, but if i put them on the stage in another frame on my main timeline, then they dont play at all. i am getting better at flash, so i know where to look for problems, but i haven't been able to find a solution. any help would be great! i am willing to email the .fla, its only 2 megs right now

~crabpot8

[crabpot8]

update: it must be a problem with my frame names. when i reference gotoAndPlay(18) (rather than "send_mesg"), it works properly. i would like to use the names, however, so if anyone could help me i would really appreciate it

[nomad]

update: it must be a problem with my frame names. when i reference gotoAndPlay(18) (rather than "send_mesg"), it works properly. i would like to use the names, however, so if anyone could help me i would really appreciate it

few pointers here.
in your layer section have one called Labels. this is where you would add your send_mesg at.

in your action script for gotoAndStop("send_mesg")
use this
this.gotoAndStop("sendmesg") I would try not using in wild cards ie - _ /

hope that works.
nomad

[crabpot8]

hm. im not sure if i understand what you are saying about the wild cards...i am saying stuff like this.click.gotoAndPlay("sendmesg") and i do have a seperate label layer in my mc's. i need go to and play cuz there is animation that i want to play within the movie clips. basically i have a line "grow" itself, and then small balls of "data" travel down the line in either direction with sendmesg and getmesg. i use a mc called line, with a label layer, an actions layer that simply has stop on the last frame of each animation,and an animation frame that contains the shapre tween to grow the line, and the motion tweens to send data and get data, all spaced about ten frames apart.

thanks in advance,
crabpot8

few pointers here.
in your layer section have one called Labels. this is where you would add your send_mesg at.

in your action script for gotoAndStop("send_mesg")
use this
this.gotoAndStop("sendmesg") I would try not using in wild cards ie - _ /

hope that works.
nomad