take a look at where you placed your code it sounds like the code is in the wrong place

try putting it on a frame that can be read through out the whole movie

if that doesn’t work post your code so we can take a look at it.

stop();

function imgFoward(evt:MouseEvent):void{
if(this.currentFrame == 10){
this.gotoAndStop(1);
}
this.gotoAndStop(this.currentFrame +1);
}

function imgRewind( evt:MouseEvent):void{
if(this.currentFrame == 1){
this.gotoAndStop(10);
}
this.gotoAndStop(this.currentFrame -1);
}

fowardBtn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, imgFoward);
rewindBtn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, imgRewind);

try it like this

function mouseDownHandler (event:MouseEvent):void{
this.gotoAndStop(71);
}

english.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, mouseDownHandler);

you error was you didn’t put assign function to the event handler at the end of your line of code.

let me explain

first off create all your buttons and there functionality I prefer to use MovieClips to make my buttons for the flexibility.

Give them simple names for example you can name them the same as the sections of let’s say a website like (home, aboutUs, contactUs) you will be surprised how much easier this makes things later when you can use the names of your buttons to do a lot of other things using AS3’s classes

Now create an Array with all your buttons names in it like so;

var btnArray:Array = new Array(home, aboutUs, contactUs);

We will loop through the array later using a (for Loop) to access the buttons by the index number of the array.

Then write your on click, over and out functions and issue the instruction to the event target button instead of a particular button, this makes your function reusable and that is one of the biggest advantages of OOP languages like AS3. If this doesn’t make sense keep reading

Leave them blank for now!

function onMouseClick (event:MouseEvent):void {

}

function onMouseOver (evt:MouseEvent):void {

}

function onMouseOut (evt:MouseEvent):void {

}

now the For Loop this is where the magic happens !!!

Let me explain!

write a loop that uses a variable give it the name of a single letter I will use the letter (i) make it an integer and give it the value of 0, then compare that variable with the array’s length property by setting it less then the array.length property of the array class, and finally increase the variable by one by using the ++ method of AS3.

inside the loop we add the button functionality by assessing the button through the arrays index by using our loop variable to access it like so “btnArray[i]”,

and if you use MovieClips for your buttons 2 little bits of code to make them work like true buttons the buttonMode and the mouseChildren property’s of the MovieClip class they both get a Boolean value so there really easy to set.

for (var i: int = 0; i< btnArray.length; i++){
btnArray[i].addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onMouseClick);
btnArray[i].addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, onMouseOver);
btnArray[i].addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, onMouseOut);
btnArray[i].buttonMode = true;
btnArray[i].mouseChildren = true;
}

now add your functionality to your functions if the buttons are going to do totally different things the use if and else if statements to assign the functionality if they are for navigation to a url then use the navigateToUrl property of the flash.net class and if it is for navigation in the flash file then go back to your flash file and at the beginning of each section put a frame label with the same name as the button that will navigate to that section then use the event.target.name property to go there like so;

function onMouseClick (event:MouseEvent):void {
this.gotoAndStop(home);
navigateToUrl(new URLRequest(http://flashthusiast.com))
}

function onMouseOver (event:MouseEvent):void {
event.target.gotoAndPlay(over)
}

function onMouseOut (event:MouseEvent):void {
event.target.gotoAndPlay(out)
}

I hope that was clear enough for the smart ones lol any how the complete code is a lot more clean and short the writing ten functions and ten event listeners here it is

var btnArray:Array = new Array(home, aboutUs, contactUs);

function onMouseClick (event:MouseEvent):void {
this.gotoAndStop(home);
navigateToUrl(new URLRequest(”http://flashthusiast.com”))
}

function onMouseOver (event:MouseEvent):void {
event.target.gotoAndPlay(over)
}

function onMouseOut (event:MouseEvent):void {
event.target.gotoAndPlay(out)
}

for (var i: int = 0; i< btnArray.length; i++){
btnArray[i].addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onMouseClick);
btnArray[i].addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, onMouseOver);
btnArray[i].addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, onMouseOut);
btnArray[i].buttonMode = true;
btnArray[i].mouseChildren = true;
}

stop();
english.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN);
function mouseDownHandler(event:MouseEvent):void
{gotoAndStop(71);}

And I get: syntax error: extra characters found after end of program - which refers specifically to line of script starting with “english” - what am I doing wrong??

maybe you should try this:

1 - the “loop” animation goes into a separate movieclip running on frame one (must have a stop there)

2 - place a button in frame one and write the following code on the frame’s actions panel (IMPORTANT!!! don’t select the button to write the code.. select the frame)

function goAhead(e:MouseEvent):void {
runningLoop_mc.stop();
this.gotoAndStop(2);
}

clickedButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, goAhead);

well… what have we got here?? simple actually… you got a movieclip on frame 1 that’s just there doing it’s thing… you got a button wating to be clicked and when it gets cicked it sends the main timeline to frame 2 and stop there, after stoping the movieclip on frame 1.

good luck ;)