onEnterframe issues

[ldebono]

I am using onEnterframe in the 17th frame of my movie to control the _x
position of an empty movie clip. The empty movie loads and positions properly.
When I use _root.onEnterframe the script inside does not work, not even a
trace command. in addition, setMask will not work in this frame even though it
works in the next frame over. Any suggestions?

_root.createEmptyMovieClip("sliding_mc", 0);
//set the dimensions of the display mc
sliding_mc._x = -450;
sliding_mc._y = 41;
sliding_mc.loadMovie("sliding-pics7.swf");
sliding_mc.setMask(slidingMask_mc);
_root.onEnterFrame = function() {
trace("l");
if (sliding_mc._x<24) {
sliding_mc._x += 1;
}
};
stop();

[Zerodonor]

its not working cause you aren't referencing the movie clip.

--> _root.onEnterFrame should be: _root.emptyMovieClip.onEnterFrame (if emptyMovieClip is in the root)

[ldebono]

that doesn't work either. nothing within the onEnterframe in this frame will
work despite that fact that if i cut and paste the exact script (excluding the
loading of the movie) into the next frame over it works fine. it just won't run
the scipt if the loading is in the same frame with it.