director layers and flash

[Mark Gibson]

hi guys,

this is probably really easy but I have a little problem.

I have a director mx movie with a flash movie on layer 1. I have put some
script on a director button to tell flash to go to a particular place, thus:

on mouseUp me
sprite("speakers_note").goToFrame("help03")
end

This works fine, but I want to move it to another layer so it appears
between different elements of the director file, but if it's on any other
layer than 1, I doesn't work and throws up the error:

script error: Handler not found in object

sprite("speakers_notes").goToFrame("Help03")

#goToFrame

Please can someone help as it's driving me mad!! all suggestions
appreciated.

Cheers,

Mark.

[EdMX]

I'm surprised your line:
sprite("speakers_note").goToFrame("help03")
works at all, as the goToFrame method is listed as working with sprite
numbers, and neither sprite layers nor sprites themselves have names in
Director (The cast member does). You should use:
sprite(gFlashSpriteNum).goToFrame("help03")
and make sure you set the gFlashSpriteNum variable to the layer number your
flash movie is on - and then set it every time you change the sprite layer
where your flash is.

[Doug Golenski]

Mark,
Do you mean you are using Director MX 2K4? Director MX doesn't support
sprite naming. You could put the sprite number for the flash sprite into a
variable if you are using MX. Like:
global myFlashSpriteNum=4
on mouseUp me
Sprite(myflashSpriteNum).goToFrame("help03")
end mouseUp me

hth,
Doug
"Mark Gibson" <mail@frontside-nm.com> wrote in message
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> hi guys,
>
> this is probably really easy but I have a little problem.
>
> I have a director mx movie with a flash movie on layer 1. I have put some
> script on a director button to tell flash to go to a particular place,

thus:

>
> on mouseUp me
> sprite("speakers_note").goToFrame("help03")
> end
>
> This works fine, but I want to move it to another layer so it appears
> between different elements of the director file, but if it's on any other
> layer than 1, I doesn't work and throws up the error:
>
> script error: Handler not found in object
>
> sprite("speakers_notes").goToFrame("Help03")
>
> #goToFrame
>
> Please can someone help as it's driving me mad!! all suggestions
> appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark.
>
>