Actionscript Problem

Trine

Just started learning flash, having problems getting some buttons to work.

I have a Menu button which when clicked opens up a Submenu which contains two buttons. I want specific text to be displayed when either of these two buttons are pressed. I'm using labels and the following actionscript to jump around the timeline:

gotoAndStop("startMenu");
mainMenu_bn.onRelease = function() {
	gotoAndStop("subMenu");
};
text1_bn.onRelease = function() {
	gotoAndStop("text1");
};
text2_bn.onRelease = function() {
	gotoAndStop("text2");
};

Clicking the menu works fine, the timeline jumps to the frame labeled "subMenu" and the two buttons appear. But clicking either of these buttons has no effect, the text won't appear. Yet when I start the program on the "subMenu" label (gotoAndStop("subMenu");) the buttons do display the text.

Sorry if that was all very confusing, hopefully somebody understands and can tell me what I'm doing wrong. Thanks.

impr0v

Where is the actionscript that you have posted from? is it on the main timeline and executed when the movie loads?

I don't understand the purpose of the 'function' you are calling. Surely it would be simpler to leave the

gotoAndStop("startMenu");

in the main timeline and then have the actions on the buttons themselves.

I.e. you would have

on(Release){
         gotoAndStop("subMenu");
}

on the main button, and then

on(Release){
        gotoAndStop("text1");
}

on the first submenu button and replace "text1" with "text2" for the second button.

dead air

Have you given instance names to the new buttons on the submenu? Make sure that they have the instance names "text1_bn" and "text2_bn".

Or, are the two submenu buttons contained in a movie clip? That might also be a reason why they aren't functioning properly.