Thanks Colin,
I changed the exitFrame to read:
if the movieTime of sprite 3 < the duration of sprite 3 then
and all works perfectly.
Sometimes you can't see the forrest for the trees!
George
> >Script error: Property not found
> >if the movieTime of sprite 3 < the duration of member "Skimmer" then
> >#duration
> >
> >The script is exactly the same in all frames except for the member names
> >which is the same as the member in the frame.
>
>
> I think this may be the same problem someone else had recently with a
> sound member. They had two members with the same name, and the first
> one wasn't a sound. Check to make sure you don't have another member
> with the same name. Or change your exitframe script to test against
> the duration of the member of sprite 3, instead of using the cast
> member's name directly.
>
> About your enterframe script, you seem to be setting the stagecolor
> and the movierate. Neither are needed every frame, and setting the
> movierate to 1 could even cause cases where the movie plays twice
> (because it wasn't on the last frame during the exitframe script, got
> to the end, paused itself, and then the enterframe set it playing
> again back at frame 1). In any case, I suspect you want to do those
> things on beginsprite, not enterframe. That way they only happen once.
>
>
>
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