stop ();
playbutton.addEventListener(
MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP,
function(evt:MouseEvent):void {
gotoAndPlay(120);
}
);

Sounds like you want gotoAndStop() instead of gotoAndPlay(). If you want to write your function directly into the addEventListener() method, it would look like this:

skitButton.addEventListener(
  MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP,
  function(evt:MouseEvent):void {
    gotoAndStop(frame number here);
  }
);

Alternatively, you could give the function a name, such as mouseUpHandler():

skitButton.addEventListener(
  MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP,
  mouseUpHandler
);

function mouseUpHandler(evt:MouseEvent):void {
  gotoAndStop(frame number here);
};

I need the code that will tell my buttons…. on release, it will go to a certain frame and stop.

Check out my answer to wes (near the top) and you’ll see it. The important part is that you give your button an instance name. In your message just now, you said your button “is called ‘button’,” but that doesn’t tell me if that name is the instance name — and without an instance name, ActionScript doesn’t know which object you’re talking about. So select your button on the Stage by clicking on it, then give it an instance name in the Property inspector (button is fine, or myButton, or whatever makes sense to you). Then use that instance name in place of “armandoButton” in the script shown here:

armandoButton.addEventListener(
  MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP,
  function(evt:MouseEvent):void {
    gotoAndPlay(1);
  }
);

In my reply to wes, I invoked the MovieClip.gotoAndPlay() method on another movie clip, but the main timeline is a movie clip too, so if you leave off a prefix (like the “someOtherClip” in my reply to wes), the gotoAndPlay() method is simply invoked on the timeline in which this code appears.

Alternately, you can give the function your event handler association a name. Here’s the same example with a named function, which I happened to call “clickHandler()“:

armandoButton.addEventListener(
  MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP,
  clickHandler
);

function clickHandler(evt:MouseEvent):void {
  gotoAndPlay(1);
}

It sounds like you’re referencing an object incorrectly, and it’s probably due to your use of this in your ActionScript. From the point of view of your function there, this refers to the timeline in which this code appears — namely, the timeline of your nested “menu” movie clip.

The timeline of the “menu” clip doesn’t contain “sections,” so you’ll need to refer to the parent timeline of “menu,” which does contain the “sections” clip.

Try this:

button1.addEventListener(
  MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP,
  function(evt:MouseEvent):void {
    MovieClip(this.parent).sections.gotoAndStop("spaCap");
  }
);

I have a nested movie clip called “menu”. In that mc I have another called “button1″ that is only on frame 10. On frame 10 of the “menu” is a script:

button1.addEventListener(
MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP,
function(evt:MouseEvent):void {
this.sections.gotoAndStop(”spaCap”);
}
);

Now I would like this script to go to a frame labeled “spaCap” of a movie clip called “sections” which is actually on the same level as “menu”.

This script runs and i get the error:

TypeError: Error #1010: A term is undefined and has no properties.
at MethodInfo-26()

I think it has something to do with the script being on frame 10, but I put it on frame 1 and it did the same thing. What should I do?

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