help for first flash

[AtomicTerrorist]

I just made a simple ball movie with a preloader. The preloader works then the ball comes up but it does not play. i have to right click then press play for it to work. After i do that it plays then the movie loops back to the preloader and the ball again and the ball is not moving.
1- How do i make the movie start right away?
2-I have the movie with 5 layers : Actions, text, loader outline, loader bar and content. i made the "movie in the content layer. Is that right?
3-how can i add a button that says "play" to my preloader instead of going right away to the movie.

If you can help me on any of these questions i would deeply appreciate it. I am a noobie at flash and i just started so please dont reply unless it is constructive.

Thanks in advance

[G0J]

Basic Actionscript! Go to the frame where it stops, and put in this actionscript on the "action - frame" area...

[code]play();[/code]

Should work fine.

[Brad]

At 2/5/06 12:31 PM, AtomicTerrorist wrote: I just made a simple ball movie with a preloader. The preloader works then the ball comes up but it does not play. i have to right click then press play for it to work. After i do that it plays then the movie loops back to the preloader and the ball again and the ball is not moving.
1- How do i make the movie start right away?

Put this AS on the frame it stops on.
play();

2-I have the movie with 5 layers : Actions, text, loader outline, loader bar and content. i made the "movie in the content layer. Is that right?

sorry i dont quite understand the last part of your sentence.

3-how can i add a button that says "play" to my preloader instead of going right away to the movie.

Ok, first, i think you want it so the movie doesnt play right after loading? So put a stop(); AS on the last frame(the part where the loader finished DLing) then make a button. Put the AS
on (release) {
_root.play();
}

I may have screwed up the AS parts.

[Ozcar]

At 2/5/06 12:35 PM, G0J wrote: Basic Actionscript! Go to the frame where it stops, and put in this actionscript on the "action - frame" area...

[code]play();[/code]

Should work fine.

Yeah... just like what he said... but forget the quotes...

Something like this

play();

Will do the trick.//

[AtomicTerrorist]

thanks alot i really appreciate your help