Controling A Movie Clip With Seperate Buttons
I have three buttons, I also have a fourth main movie clip. all are seperate movie clips within a web page.
I would like each of the buttons to have different aspects of control over the fourth main moovie clip.
1.STOP/PLAY the 4th main movie, or maybe just pause it.
2.STOP/PLAY the sound, which is an mp3 file in one of the buttons timelines.
3.ON/OFF switch for the main movies loop sequence.
Is this simple to do?
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Posted on: 09-01-2002, 09:29 PM
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Buttons In A Seperate Movie Clip For Photo Gallery
Hullo, sorry for being another nub who needs help with something that will (hopefully) be simple to everyone else.
I've created a photo gallery by following the tutorial on this site but I need it to be nested in another movie. I've sucessfully gotten the images to show up, and an external button to "open" the gallery. However, I can't get the buttons to work. If I put them in the movie clip that now holds the gallery, as in a movie clip that contains the movie clip for the images, the buttons don't show up.
I've also tried putting them in an entirely seperate movie clip, as I've had to do this to get a surrounding background box to show up for the pictures, and just getting the button that opens the gallery to tell all three clips (the background movie clip, the buttons movie clip, and the picture movie clip that contains the photo movie clip) to go to the appropriate frames. This works well since everything shows up however I can't seem to get the code in the buttons to work now.
I've tried:
on (release) {
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}
but that doesn't seem to do it. Can anyone tell me what the code should be for the buttons, or even give me a clue as to why none of the other layers in the movie clip labelled "pic" show up?
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ca102680@ntu.ac.uk
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*EDIT* Moving a better explaination up in hopes it gets viewed.
Let me try and explain this a little better...
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Alright I'm reposting this cause I read the thingy about helps and things. Alright, yesterday I posted: I needed help with:
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this.onEnterFrame = function() {
with (panel1) {
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this.panel2.gotoAndStop(2);
}
}
};
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Submited for your review and/or help
i can not figure out how to control a movie clip that is a child of the main movie clip by a button that is in a differnt child movie clip. I use the "insert target area" button and i get "this.inverter.gotoAndPlay(3)"
Code:
stop();
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trace("the " + evt.target.name + " button was clicked");
play();
this.inverter.gotoAndPlay(3);
}
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but it does not work, i get:
Code:
TypeError: Error #1010: A term is undefined and has no properties.
at controlpanel_test_fla::shore_cable_4/clickButton()
in the output window when i test my movie.
Is there something easy i'm missing? (i'm not using any external .as file, to confussing for me at this time)
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Hoper not to sound too complicated... is like steering in a car i guess...
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Salut
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Movie Clip With A Seperate Time Line, How To Script?
I'm creating a flash site for myself and have ran into a little problem.
I've created a menu which slides out from the boarder on the left. when it fully extends into view it stops until you close it. I have a background for that which fades into view when the menu is fully open.
The menu frame which slides is one movie clip
The menu background is a second movie clip which is located inside the menuframe movie.
I have got the opening of the whole menu done. What I want it to do is when I click the close button on the menu, the background movieclip will play(fadeout), when it is done fading out I want it to play the menu to close it's self. I know that action is _parent.play("backtoleft") (correct?)
Basically play the internal movie from the external movie(closeBTN), finishing internal movie tells external movie to play. What actions should I use.
I have used on (Release) gotoAndPlay.
I've tried "this." _root, and everything to try and control the other timeline..
If you can understand what I'm getting at and can help it wil be greatly appreciated!
Controling A Movie Clip From Another And Not In Time Sync...thoughts On How To?
I'd like to know what I need to look at Actionscript wise for the following scenario...:
opening MC stops, waiting for user input (onclick event)1 of 4 buttons, once a button is clicked, mc continues, loads another MC that is the Navigation portion. The Navigation MC has other MC's with click events that launch movies into _level(n). I need to know how to 1. know what button was clicked when the MC first stoped (waiting for input, onclick), 2. use that somehow later in the Navigation MC to know what portion of the Navigation MC needs to run so I can automatically run the correct MC into _level(n).
I hope this makes sence. I was thinking about Variables, with conditionals within the MC's within the Navigation MC, but unsure where to begin or if this is the correct approach. Any advice would be very much appreciated.
Thanks
Norm
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Help!
Let's see if I can describe this problem...
I've got a movie with 2 movie clips, one contains my menu buttons, the other, whose instance i've named content, is essentially empty. I am able to load swf movies into the "content" clip based on the button the click in the menu clip, using the following script:
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hi,
how do i control the main movie by pressing a button iside a movie clip - I have tried:
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Hi i hope someone can shed some light on by novice AS writers block.
I am creating a photogallery with thumbnails that reads all the data from XML, this is based on the excellent Kirupa tutorial.
What i want to happen is that the text only appears when you mouseOver the image.
I thought it would be a simple using an if statement but can not get it to work.
you can view the page at http://www.bru-ha.com/roza-flash/art_7.swf
below is the actionscript for the file & the FLA.
Code:
function loadXML(loaded) {
if (loaded) {
xmlNode = this.firstChild;
image = [];
description = [];
media = [];
credit = [];
thumbnails = [];
total = xmlNode.childNodes.length;
for (i=0; i<total; i++) {
image[i] = xmlNode.childNodes[i].childNodes[0].firstChild.nodeValue;
description[i] = xmlNode.childNodes[i].childNodes[1].firstChild.nodeValue;
media[i] = xmlNode.childNodes[i].childNodes[2].firstChild.nodeValue;
credit[i] = xmlNode.childNodes[i].childNodes[3].firstChild.nodeValue;
thumbnails[i] = xmlNode.childNodes[i].childNodes[4].firstChild.nodeValue;
thumbnails_fn(i);
}
firstImage();
} else {
content = "file not loaded!";
}
}
xmlData = new XML();
xmlData.ignoreWhite = true;
xmlData.onLoad = loadXML;
xmlData.load('xml/art_7.xml');
///////////////////////////////////// preloader
p = 0;
this.onEnterFrame = function() {
filesize = picture.getBytesTotal();
loaded = picture.getBytesLoaded();
preloader._visible = true;
if (loaded != filesize) {
preloader.preload_bar._xscale = 100*loaded/filesize;
} else {
preloader._visible = false;
if (picture._alpha<100) {
picture._alpha += 10;
}
}
};
///////////////////////////////////////next and previous image function
function nextImage() {
if (p<(total-1)) {
p++;
if (loaded == filesize) {
picture._alpha = 0;
picture.loadMovie(image[p], 1);
text_mc.desc_txt.text = description[p];
text_mc.media_txt.text = media[p];
text_mc.credit_txt.text = credit[p];
picture_num();
}
}
}
function prevImage() {
if (p>0) {
p--;
picture._alpha = 0;
picture.loadMovie(image[p], 1);
text_mc.desc_txt.text = description[p];
text_mc.media_txt.text = media[p];
text_mc.credit_txt.text = credit[p];
picture_num();
}
}
function firstImage() {
if (loaded == filesize) {
picture._alpha = 0;
picture.loadMovie(image[0], 1);
text_mc.desc_txt.text = description[0];
text_mc.media_txt.text = media[0];
text_mc.credit_txt.text = credit[0];
picture_num();
}
}
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////load thumbnails
function thumbnails_fn(k) {
thumbnail_mc.createEmptyMovieClip("t"+k, thumbnail_mc.getNextHighestDepth());
tlistener = new Object();
tlistener.onLoadInit = function(target_mc) {
target_mc._x = hit_left._x+(eval("thumbnail_mc.t"+k)._width+10)*k;
target_mc.pictureValue = k;
target_mc.onRelease = function() {
p = this.pictureValue-1;
nextImage();
};
target_mc._alpha = 30;
target_mc.onRollOver = function() {
target_mc.onEnterFrame = function() {
if (this._alpha<100) {
this._alpha += 15;
//or any other number you like, if it's too fast or too slow
} else {
this._alpha = 100;
this.onEnterFrame = null;
}
};
};
target_mc._alpha = 30;
target_mc.onRollOut = function() {
target_mc.onEnterFrame = function() {
if (this._alpha>30) {
this._alpha -= 15;
//or whatever number you used above
} else {
this._alpha = 30;
this.onEnterFrame = null;
}
};
};
};
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////text fade
//text_mc._alpha = 0;
//picture.onRollOver = function() {
//picture.onEnterFrame = function() {
//if (text_mc._alpha<100) {
//text_mc._alpha += 15;
//} else {
//text_mc._alpha = 100;
//picture.onEnterFrame = null;
//}
//};
//};
//picture.onRollOut = function() {
//picture.onEnterFrame = function() {
//if (text_mc._alpha>100) {
//text_mc._alpha -= 15;
//} else {
//text_mc._alpha = 100;
//picture.onEnterFrame = null;
//}
//};
//};
image_mcl = new MovieClipLoader();
image_mcl.addListener(tlistener);
image_mcl.loadClip(thumbnails[k], "thumbnail_mc.t"+k);
}
stop();
any pointers are gratefully recieved.
Cheers
Bo-doodle
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