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Hi there,

I'm creating a movie to demonstrate features of a piece of software. I want the user to have movie controls at the bottem of the page. Play, stop and pause all work fine.

I've put the movie control buttons in a movie clip and the problem buttons have the folowing actionscript

fast forward:

_parent.gotoAndPlay(_parent._currentframe+3);

rewind:

_parent.gotoAndPlay(_parent._currentframe-5);

The problem is that by skipping frames the movie will often miss keyframes with actions in the timeline.

For example: I have a movieclip called "captions". At certain points on the timeline i have keyframes with actionscript telling captions to fade in, fade out or display certain text. If these keyframes are missed then captions displays incorrectly and the fast forwarded version of the movie is not accurate.

Is there a better way of implementing these buttons or a way to get round this problem?

I can see that if i took the different caption states out of the movieclip and put them on the main timeline then it would work - but this would make my movie much harder to edit.

Any suggestions will be gratefully recieved