Flash - how to load movie and start at a particular frame

Question

I'm new to flash and action script 2, and I am trying to load an external movie and have it start at frame 3. It's the start at frame 3 that I'm having trouble with.

The following code does not work:

on release {
  loadMovie ("myMovie.swf",this);
  gotoAndStop (3);
}

or:

on release {
  loadMovie ("myMovie.swf",this);
  gotoAndPlay ("3");
}

any help would be appreciated.

thanks

Answer 1

try

var mycLoader:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader();

myLoader.addListener(this);
myLoader.loadClip("myExternalMovie.swf", myContainer);
function onLoadInit(mc:MovieClip) { 
     mc.gotoAndPlay(3); 
}

this.gotoAndPlay(3);

Where myContainer is an empty movie clip that you want to swf to load into.