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Controlling Frames?
hi and thanks for trying to help me, and many others which i belive have the same problem. Probably its very simple but i cant figur it out. Just downlaod my zipped fla and you will understand my question or read below.

I got three button:s(1-3) and there three mc:s(1-3). Everything lays in one stopped frame on the main stage. The mc:s has different amont of frames but all of them follow the same behavior. The play up to a "turning point" and stop. Then they play the rest of the frames untill the end of the mc "down point".

What i whant to do is. When u push a button1 it should play mc1 up to the mc1:s "turning point" and stop. But if another mc2 already is at its "turning point" it should first play the rest of mc2:s frames until that mc2 reaches its end and then begin to play mc1 from the begining up to its turning point. If u push button1 when mc1 ist on its "turning point" flash should just play the rest of mc1:s frames until it reaches its downpoint.
I would be very glad if the code easy could be used on lets say six mc and there six buttons. But usaly im not so stupid so if u give me the start i should be able to fix that.

//Please just help me with a idea how to begin...

//download my zipped expample fla. and u would get what i mean immediatly.

Thanks again!

Thanks again!

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Controlling Swf's In Other Frames?
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Let's say I have a website made up of frames. A top-frame with a flashmenu. A left frame for a flash-submenu and another frame with HTML-content.

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Just like "Mr. 2Advanced Jordan" does on http://www.xs-engineering.com

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I am going to loade movie "b" with FPS 12 in a movie "a" with FPS 30. when I see the results, movie "b" takes the FPS of movie "a" which I dont want to happen. Is it possible to control the FPS dynamically?

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When you click on a link in the menu... the submenu will go to and play a specific set of frames.

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i have an internal site i've developed that uses a frameset containing three frames...left, top, and main. all three frames contain their own swf file. the left frame is the navigation, the top is location and date & time stamp, and the main (obviously) contains the "main" text or graphics.

what i need to know is whether or not it is possible to tell the buttons inside the navigation frame to target certain points (GoToAndStop) in the other two swf files instead of having to load new swf files into each particular frame.

thanks in advance!

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Controlling Frames In A Loaded Swf
When you load an swf on top of your main movie, is it possible to make that loaded clip play at a certain frame when you click a button from the main movie?

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right now i have 2 sounds, on one layer, each in it's own keyframe. the first is supposed to play normally and stop at the end. the second is supposed to pick up immediately after the first and loop.

i read through the tutorials within the program and it mentioned an OnSoundcomplete action. i think that's what i'm looking for but i'm not too familiar with action script yet so i'm not sure how to incorporate it. i knew a little flash a loooong time ago but i've forgotten it almost completely now. i know this is a very simple task, but i can't figure this out for the life of me. i've been sitting here for at least a couple hours trying to get this **** to work. i'd appreciate any help

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does any one know if and how u can control a swf in a different frame from a swf in another frame.

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I would like to know if it is possible to control a swf movie from another swf movie where they are both in different frames. I.e I have my navigation swf and I would like it to control the frame position in the other movie.

I would appreciate any help or if you can point my in the right direction that would be fantastic.

Thank
Andrew

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Using mx here. I was wondering if there was anyway to control an swf file inside of another swf file by using button actions. if the buttons are in the main swf file, how would i control the frames of the externally loaded swf.

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Controlling Frames In MC With Y Or X Position From Other MC?
Hi,

It's official I cant code if my life depended on it, not sure why but the simplest codes are killing that used to work before .

I'm trying to make it so, when my MC instance "dragger" is dragged down every pixel, the other MC with instance "knife" with an animation inside will go forward 1 frame (per pixel dragger moves). When dragger is released, it should snap back to original position as well as knife snapping back into 1st frame.

Basically I'm trying to learn a flip-book type of effect.

Even my drag codes arent working, I'm trying to set boundaries for _x and _y values of dragger as well but no luck here. Any help is appreciated, at least with this dragging bit lol! Thanks.

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Ok... this is confusing.. but..
I have a movie that loads in top_header.swf, and middle_main.swf. These are loaded into 2 blank movie clips, top_empty and middle_empty, respectively. Okay... well can i make it so when i press a button in top_header.swf, it goes to a certain frame in middle_main.swf? Can you control an externally loaded .swf with another externally loaded one? If not, what would the best approach be? Thanks

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Controlling Movies Across HTML Frames?
I have been trying to figure this out for a while and would love some help.

I am designing a site that must incorporate a main HTML page - so that the flash is only being used as navigation. However, for my design to work, I have to create 3 frames - 2 with flash, and 1 with HTML. The problem is that I need the flash movie in Frame 1 to be able to communicate with the movie in Frame 2, and the movie in Frame 2 to be able to change the page in Frame 3. Changing the page I can do, but how do I get a movie in one HTML based frame to be able to control a movie in another frame?

Thanks
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Hello all,
I posted earlier about wanting to create a facemaker type application and have so far learned about drag and drop MCs. So far so good.

I now have several drag and drop movie clips, each with 4 frames in my project. I now want to control which frame my drag and drop movies display by a combo box. In other words, combo box one will have four choices, each pertaining to which of MC1's four frames will be displayed. Catch my drift?

So eventually my goal is to have four draggable movie clips..
( mc1, mc2, mc3, mc4)
each with 4 frames
and four combo boxes (cb1, cb2, cb3, cb4)
each with four variables.
So that by selecting variable "1" in cb1 displays frame "1" in mc1.
So on and so on.
Does that make sense?
Thanks everyone, this is really fun stuff!

-Tracy Smith

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Flash Controlling HTML Frames?
I want to know if anyone know if thres a tutorial..or source files about this...

ex: if u wanna make a flash menu...in a seperate html-frame...and it should control the content of the main html-frame

i hope i make myself clear...

thnx

JOT

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Controlling The Sequence Through Scenes Or Frames
I have constructed a simple Flash movie with two scenes. On the first scene I have a button which when actions is meant to take you to scene two. The problem I get is that when i test the movie out it just plays continuously through the scenes as a loop..

I need it to stop on the first scene and only go to the second once the button is pressed. The same can be said for frames, how can i control the movie to only move onto other frames only when a button is actioned instead of just automatically looping through the frames when played???

probably a real simple thing im missing but any help would be cool

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Buttons Controlling Movie Frames
ok... im tryin to make a knockoff of the old egeis site.... with the folders fading in and out and masks and whatnot using the images as guides.... and im kinda stuck....

i have created the folders that fade in and out as a seperate .swf to play in the background... the original has stops at the correct points.... but as im sure you know.. when i import it into my main document.. the stops are gone.... so i have dropped the .swf into my main doc... opened it and added a layer to it so i can add the stop... now... what im not sure about is how... when i click on a button to go to a diffrent section.. can i have that .swf continue to play the fade out.. than repeat for the next section?... am i making this much harder than it has to be?... the folders are just eye-candy... the actual content is going to be in another .swf. would it just be easier for me to add the folder fading into my actual main document?

if this makes no sense to anyone... let me know... and i will send you my files.. so you can better understand what i am talking about.

to reiterate what i am asking...

1) i have a main document that has the buttons...each button will represent a diffrent section of the site... i know how to have it load the diffrent sections (content) from diffrent .swf files

2) between my back ground layer and the content layer i want to add some "eyecandy".. folders that will fade in.. b4 the content appears... than fade out when a diffrent button has been pressed.. and loop around for the next fade in.

3) i have imported my folder.swf file into the main doc... opened it up, added another layer with a stop at frame 55 of 87....

4) when the button has been pressed... how do i have the folder.swf continue to frame 88 and loop back again.

i have been racking my brain for a while.. and i have a feeling its pretty obvious... im just missing it

thanx in advance for your help

-Pyro

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HTML Frames And Controlling SWFs
I have an HTML document that is basicly a 4 frame set. In one frame set I have a basic Play,Pause,Forward,Backward type interface that is an SWF. I need for the media interface SWF to control an SWF in another HTML frame. Does anybody know how I would go about doing this?

Basicly I'm trying to conroll a video in one HTML frame by using and SWF in another HTML frame.

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Controlling Frames Within A Movie Clip
Hello again. I have another question.

I want to be able to control the frames in a movie clip by calling up frame labels. The movie clip is basically a menu. When the user clicks a button that would be on the stage, it would bring up the specific frame label in the movie clip. Problem is I have no clue how to attach the movie clip to the button. Anyone want to help me out?

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I would like it to only play frames 1-10, and then 11-20,21-30 again as the button is pressed again.

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Controlling Multiple Movies Through Frames
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anybody know how to control separate flash movies in different frames? found one source at : http://www.ashzfall.com/flash/fscomlib/frameplay.html
however it doens't work in netscrape (then again, what does?). thanx in advance!

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I think the solution is to use Javascript to do this.

But some one knows the rigth way?

I need help, this is urgent!!!

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Controlling Multiple Flash Movies In Frames
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I have 2 frames with a flash movie in each. I want to be able to control one movie via the other movie. LIke for example, from movie1.swf can i say gotoAndPlay(2) in movie2.swf which is in the other frame? I wasnt sure if this was possible. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
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hey everyone, in my newest project i have a main template that has navigation buttons, and in the main part of the movie it loads an external .swf into an empty movie clip. the buttons in the main movie are designed to tell the loaded swf to go to the correct frame label to display the right information. this works (my actionscript is something like on(release){ _root.container.gotoandStop("home"); } and it works basically. however if the movie is at the frame that you want to go to, when you click that button, it skips to the next frame label. it should, however, do nothing because you are already at that frame label. but for some reason, if you click the button of the page you are already at, it will send you to the next label. then at the next label if you hit that button again it will send you to the previous one. whats goin on here???
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Simple Problems With AS Controlling Movies And Frames (mx)
I know nothin of actionscript, so some mistakes here will be elementary

I have a simple movie that plays, then stops on a menu to play 3 other movies. at the end of each of these movies i'd like to go back to the first movie, but to the frame where the menu is, except I get 4 or 5 errors when the main movie starts.

this is the AS I'm using on the first frame of the main movie:

code:
stop();
this.onEnterFrame = function() {
if(_global.whereToGo == "menu")
{
this.gotoAndStop(_global.whereToGo);
delete this.onEnterFrame };
else if( _global.whereToGo != undefined)
{
gotoAndPlay(_root.whereToGo);
} else {
this.gotoAndStop("error");
trace("Error passing variable!"); }

and this is on the button that leads back to the menu of the main movie
code:
on(release){
_global.whereToGo = "menu";
loadMovieNum("tuteintro.swf", 0);
}

I get a few errors... I'm sorry about the syntax errors, but I've been correcting them as they pop up and more just appear.
Could anyone tell me what's goin on here?
Any help would be greatly apreciated

EDIT: Added [ as ] tags - jbum

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? Controlling Play Head For A Certain Number Of Frames Whit AScript
How about that I want to crontrol the playhead so that I can play a certain number of frames ( lets say 20 ) and then stop. All this whit only action script.
Not a Action in a frame but only a Button Action.

Ex:

I have a button that when I hit it the play head goes at frames 50 of a movie clip and stop after 20 frames of playing ( so it is now at 70).

But the Idea is to have no action in the frames of the movie clip that the play head is moving in!

Is it possible? Or I am just out of range whit this Idea ?

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Hey,

I've constructed what I hoped would be a functioning slideshow, only I'm stuck with it displaying only the firts picture.

I've got the following setup:

The slideshow appearing on a page, it is a movieclip called "slideShow_mc"

Inside this clip is a series of movie clips, each set on their own frame. Each clip has a name like "slide1_mc," "slide2_mc" and so on.

Each slide is itself a movie with a 15 frame timeline, with an alpha channel motion tween so that the images fade from frame one to frame 15, all purty like. So, in all it goes three layers deep.

Now, on the last frame of each slide, I've got a "stop();" action, so that they won't loop -- however, this also means that only the first image loads, and I can't get the playhead to advance to the next slide :/

I've tried placing this on the same frame as the stop action:

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...but it doesn't work.

I've tried:

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and

_parent.gotoAndPlay(2);

and

_parent.Play();,

and even

nextScene();

All without any luck.

I've got my copiues of the FlashMX 2004 Bible and the O'Reilly's AS book open, but I can't seem to find what I don't know I'm looking for

Please help...thanks!

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i know how to control content being loaded into frames, from within a flash movie (using get url) but, i'm not sure how to go about calling various parts of a flash movie that is situated within a different frame with the html page, from the one it's being called from.

so, for example, say i have a set of buttons within one flash movie, that when clicked moves the timeline in the other flash movie (within a different frame) to frame 5 or whatever. see what i mean?

would it be something like this?

on (release) {

getURL("name of html page.html", "name of lable/ number of frame within timeline", "name of frame flash movie is contained within");

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hi
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The Process:
I have on the main time line a MC called movie1. (The main time line is only one frame long)

In the first frame on the main time line I have the following code:
---- start code ----
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Hi,

I'm relatively new to Flash and have not done much work with the AS. I was hoping someone here could enlighten me on an area which has been stumping me.

I need to know how to loop (for example) frames 1 to 5, 4 times then continue to frame 6 until the last frame, then go back to frame 1, thus re-entering the loop, etc. I do believe it would involve something like this... but then again I'm a newbie to this so... what do I know (which is why I wanna learn)

Frame 1:
i=0

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I know it's going to be...make i=1 first time...add 1 to i each time...and if i=7, then play past frame 38...and put a stop(); at the end of the movie, but i don't know how that code would look, if I could please ask for more...basic (ugh...) help...
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hi

my question is....

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i have invisible buttons covering all the mc's

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peace and love

starchie
[Edited by starchie on 11-19-2001 at 02:44 PM]

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I need your help, i have this anoying little problem and i have tried (almost) everything and it will not work !!!

I have a modular based timeline on which a mc sits (this is an mc with 5 buttons on it) and another mc called mail(with instance name mail).

The mail mc is an mc with bout 30 frames and the first frame blank and a stop(); action so that it is invisible while running the movie.

The button MC has 60 frames and at the end a stop(); action attached to it. In the 60th frame I have the 5 buttons again with some actions on it. This is where the problem lies.
I want to click a button and then it has to perform somthing like:

Code:
on (press) {
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}

but it doesnt, also tried

Code:
on (press) {
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tried about everything, none helps !!!

Could you ? Please ? Help ?
Because that wopuld be the dogs ******** !!!
Thanks a lot !!!

Sidney

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Hi to all,

Lemme tell what i am wondering....

I have a one.swf with 120FPS and another two.swf with 12FPS.I am trying to load one.swf in two.swf in Level 1.
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If i try doing that in the Level0 it runs at 120FPS.
Targetting in a MC runs at 12FPS.

Did anyone come across this, any solution to get out of this problem.

Regards & Thx
gnana

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