User Guide

478 ActionScript classes

gotoAndStop (MovieClip.gotoAndStop method)

public gotoAndStop(frame:Object) : Void

Brings the playhead to the specified frame of the movie clip and stops it there. To specify a

scene in addition to a frame, use

gotoAndStop().

You can extend the methods and event handlers of the MovieClip class by creating a subclass.

Availability: ActionScript 1.0; Flash Lite 2.0

Parameters

frame:Object - The frame number to which the playhead is sent.

Example

The following example uses the

_framesloaded property to start a SWF file when all the

frames are loaded. If all the frames aren't loaded, the

_xscale property of the loader movie

clip instance is increased proportionally to create a progress bar.

Enter the following ActionScript in Frame 1 of the Timeline:

var pctLoaded:Number = Math.round(this.getBytesLoaded()/

this.getBytesTotal()*100);

bar_mc._xscale = pctLoaded;

Add the following code to Frame 2:

if (this._framesloaded<this._totalframes) {

this.gotoAndPlay(1);

} else {

this.gotoAndStop(3);

}

Place your content on or after Frame 3. Then add the following code to Frame 3:

stop();