Controlling External Set Of Movies With Play Pause And Skip Buttons
hi all,
Been looking for some tutorials on how to get this done but cannot find any. After I build this out I want to post up in the tutorials section.
Ok I was wondering if someone could help me on this small problem I am having. I have a total of 4 flash movies. The first movie will house all my navigation as shown below:
[Movie 2] [Movie 3] [Movie 4] [Pause] [Play ] [Skip to Next Movie]
The simple part of course are the first 3 buttons basically just loadmovie statements.
Now the next 3 buttons are the part I cannot quite figure out. The logic from what I have been reading is basically is the create a variable on the mainstage that updates itself each time a new movie is playing. This way you can tell the movie "pause" or "play" because it has a name.
Any actionscripters want to lend a hand on this? I have included the files all setup just need to few lines of scripting. I want to also post this as a tutorial since I cannot locate any tutorials with this sort of logic.
thanks in advance!
FlashKit > Flash Help > Flash ActionScript
Posted on: 05-10-2004, 11:38 AM
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