Help With Loading A Movie To A Specific Frame
Hi everyone,
This is my first post on FlashKit so I hope someone can help.
I am creating a board game for a client in Flash MX 2004, I can get the single player version to work flawlessly, but the problem occurs when I'm trying to make player 2 work.
Each player and the spinner associated with it is it's own movie clip. The board for the game is the main timeline. There are also independed animated movies for each space on the board that each player MC calls up depending on its position.
I can make the game switch back and forth between player 1 and 2 but the issue I keep running into is that when the switch occurs the movie clip for each player starts over at frame one.
The question is how do I store the current frame for each movie and have it recall that frame when the other players turn is done.
I thought of using a variable such as:
onframe = getProperty("MCname", _currentframe); MCname being the name of the movie clip.
But how do I recall that variable and make each player MC go back to the particular frame, which will change with each turn.
This is my final hurdle on this game so any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Mkorbar
FlashKit > Flash Help > Flash ActionScript
Posted on: 11-30-2006, 10:57 AM
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