[Action Script 2] Playing a movie clip on mouse press

[Pacmaney]

So I'm working on a simple game for my programming course and for some reason my movie clip isn't playing. I instanced the clip as "Gun" and here's my code.

onClipEvent (mouseDown)
{
	Gun.play();
}

The code is in a seperate movie clip that contains all of my other code but I think the code looks functional.

[h2ooooooo]

You have changed "<Instance Name>" to "Gun" (capital G), right, and not just had it instance off an MC in the librabry? (Click object -> Properties -> Change name.

Also, if that seperate movieclip isn't a parent object of run, you'll have to refer to root.

_root.Gun.play();

You can also place GUn inside of the "seperate movieclip" and use it without _root.

[Pacmaney]

Worked with the _root in front, thanks alot!

[voltlight]

For the record, if you're trying to play a movie clip that's inside a movie clip you'll have to set out the path.

(For example, _root.Gun.Bullet.play (); )

[Pacmaney]

All right I'll remember that.

[h2ooooooo]

And say that you want to play Gun, you can also place "_parent.play();" within Bullet MC for the same effect as "_root.Gun.play();", because Gun is parent of Bullet :)