Flash: Show Graphic Symbol Frame by Label?

[Ansari]

I have a Graphic symbol with a few dozen animations taking place one after another. In my main timeline, I only want to show one animation at a time. Easy enough to do by setting the Looping of the symbol to Play Once and specifying which frame to start at.

Within the graphic symbol, I have a layer with only labels on it and each animation has it's own label. In my main timeline, how can I specify where to play the graphic symbol from by label rather than by frame number?

I'm working in CS4 using AS3.

Thanks

 

[lucidmedia]

I have a Graphic symbol with a few dozen animations taking place one after another. In my main timeline, I only want to show one animation at a time. Easy enough to do by setting the Looping of the symbol to Play Once and specifying which frame to start at.

Within the graphic symbol, I have a layer with only labels on it and each animation has it's own label. In my main timeline, how can I specify where to play the graphic symbol from by label rather than by frame number?

I'm working in CS4 using AS3.

Thanks

you should be able to drop your frame labels into your gotoAndPlay actions wrapped in quotes.

instancename.gotoAndPlay("framelabel");

Can you give instance names to graphic symbols? I no longer use the Flash IDE. Back in the day I would use a Movie symbol instead of a graphic symbol to do the above, but it may not matter anymore.

 

[Ansari]

It doesn't allow me to give an instance name to a graphic symbol.

 

[lucidmedia]

It doesn't allow me to give an instance name to a graphic symbol.

Then you cannot address that content via actionscript. Copy and paste your animations out of the graphic and into a movie symbol.

 

[scottgroovez]

Just turn the graphic instance into a movieclip instance (via the properties panel) and give it a name. You can then call name.gotoAndPlay(framelabel);