Button triggering movie state

[WakeoftheBunT]

My dilema is probly a pure oversight im sure so im just gonna hope someone can help me out here, im not exactly noob, but im not a code monkey either (way more design elite)

I have a button which reads 'NEXT' that if pressed will trigger a movie clip event

however, this mc will be dealing with sets of buttons inside of it depending on the frame (there are 2 for this case) and im having one small issue which isnt really acceptable to my goal

www.fueledbyhate.net

here is the live example on my WIP of the site. Press the 'Next' side tab to see the content list change - however at the end of the main timeline which is about 7 seconds long and plays looped, it will just jump back to the first category of buttons automatically.

here is the code i used

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nextTAB.onRelease = function() {
if (content_mc._currentframe == 1) {
content_mc.gotoAndStop("cat2");
} else {
content_mc.gotoAndStop("cat1");
}
}

there cat1 and cat2 stand for Category - and yes I did put stop events at the begginning of the content_mc timeline, and in the last frame frame of it

any ideas?

[JacobHaug]

Try adding a root attribute to the code. Try this and let me know if it does not work.

[WakeoftheBunT]

well its call works, but it reverts and no doing _root didnt make it work

uhhhh haha i dont get that, i hadnt changed the url values in the buttons, see i do duplicate on menus and stuff, and i guess it hates seeing the same url after a frame change in a movie?

either way, it randomly started working once those proper html links were input, so i can continue!

Thanks for your time

[JacobHaug]

No Problem, and Good Luck!!