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Activating a toggle button from ActionScript

I have a movie clip that consists of two frames, one frame containing an ON button and the other containing an OFF button. The ActionScript for each frame is stop() and the ActionScript for each button instance is

on(release) {
play();
}

So when you click the movie instance on the main stage, you advance to the next frame (second if coming from first, first if coming from second) and the icon changes between an ON graphic and and OFF graphic, implementing a toggle botton. My problem is that I would like to toggle the button internally from ActionScript to an initial state depending on the value of some variable. The movie clip instance is called tog so I tried adding

tog.play();

to the frame 1 code for the main timeline, but this doesn't do it. The state stays at the state for frame 1 of the tog movie clip.

Does anyone know what's going on here and how I can toggle this switch from ActionScript?

Thanks,

Steve

Aneesh Chopra

if u r writing the following code on frame 1,

tog.play();

then you should have the movieclip instance "tog" on first frame,

if it is not the case,
put the above code on frame, where "tog" instance is placed..

Regards
Aneesh

steva

ASKER

That's what I have. The .fla file is here, if someone wants to take a look at it: http://www.4shared.com/file/4974645/d5614c82/tog.html

The movie clip is called Spkr and the instance on the main page is tog.

Steve

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steva

ASKER

That works! Why does that work and not tog.play()?

Aneesh Chopra

tog,play() says just to start play from the currentframe, but frame one also has stop action, which does not allow it to move forward..