Flash :: Listbox, Within A Movie Clip, And A Button On The Main Timeline

Button In A Movie Clip To Trigger Main Timeline
I have a little problem...I have a navigation menu that is a movie clip containing buttons. I want each button to go to a specific frame on the main time line. But I can't seem to make it work. Does anyone have any ideas?

I tried

on (release) {
gotoAndPlay ("home");
}

But its probably trying to find that frame label within the menu timeline.

http://www.sodiumhalogen.com/new

Controlling Main Timeline From A Button In A Movie Clip...
i have a button inside of a movieclip, and all i want it to do is ON RELEASE...make the main movie GOTO & PLAY another scene.

For some reason, this isnt f*ckin working!

Is this wrong or right?

on (release) {
tellTarget ("_root") {
gotoAndPlay ("rls_details", 1);
}
}

lemme know. Thanks!

Button In Movie Clip To Return To Main Timeline
This is similar to the question just posted. I have a movie clip with buttons in it. When a button is pressed I want to exit the movie clip and go to Scene 2 and what ever frame corresponds to that button.

I scripted a button:
on(release) {
gotoAndStop ("scene 2", 1);
}
This works when you are in the movie clip pressing the buttons but on test movie nothing happens.

I tried
on (release) {
unloadMovieNum(0);
gotoAndStop ("Scene2", 1);
}
on test movie the screen goes blank. Apparently it unloads the movie clip but does not go to scene 2 or anywhere else for that matter.

Thank you for any ideas you can give me.

Button In Movie Clip Not Activating Label On Main Timeline Help Please
i have created a movie clip containing a sroller using actionscript, in this movie clip in this there is a another movie clip containing the pictures and buttons on separate lavers (the bits that scroll)

i have set up one instance of the button which has a onrelease gotoandplay action to scene1, (frame label) project 1

this should move the main timeline to the label and trigger another movie clip, but dosent can anyone shed any light on this

regards jason

i would be more than happy to email the flash document if someone is prepared to take a look

How Do I Script A Back Button From The Main Timeline To A Movie Clip?
Movie clip plays, when it reaches the end there is a stop action. Two buttons are displayed, each one takes you to a different page (in the main timeline, have on(release) _root.gotoAndStop for the buttons)..

On the two pages that the buttons take you to (on the main timeline) I want to put a back button on each to take you back to the movie clip and tell it to go to the last frame of the movie clip and stop. I'm pretty sure I know how to do that, but the problem is I have more than one movie clip: how do I script the back button to send you back to the last movieclip you viewed?

Making The Main Timeline Play From A Button Embedded In A Movie Clip
How does one make the main timeline play from a button embedded in a movieclip that is on the main timeline?

How Do I Target A Text Field On The Main Timeline From A Button Within A Movie Clip?
Hi people.
I checked the archives and the tutorials but could not find the answer. Or at least I wasn't smart enough to figure it out......

I have a text box with an instance name textbox. I assigned a layer (AS) with the following code. The text loads fine.

// copy which is loaded
loadVarsText = new loadVars();
loadVarsText.load("mywriting.txt");
textbox.text = loadVarsText.var1;
loadVarsText.onLoad = function(success) {
if (success) {
trace("done loading");
textbox.html = true;
textbox.htmlText = this.var1;
} else {
trace("not loaded");
}
};

This is the AS which I assigned to the movie clip containing the pulldown buttons:

The pull down button menu works fine as well...... Please hang with me. The next paragraph should show my error(s)......

// pulldown menu
onClipEvent(load){
previouslyOver=false;
}
onClipEvent(enterFrame){
currentlyOver=this.hitTest(_root._xmouse,_root._ym ouse,true);
if(!previouslyOver and currentlyOver){
previouslyOver=true;
this.gotoAndStop("On");
} else if (previouslyOver and !currentlyOver){
previouslyOver=false;
this.gotoAndStop("Off");
}
}

I now want to replace the text on the main time line with a new text from the pull down menu button movie clip which holds several buttons.

The code for each button currently looks like this:
The text doesn't load into the text field? Not sure what the target path should look like? Please help somebody.

Thanks a lot, Henrik

// Code for text button
on (press) {
_root.loadVarsText.load("historicevents.txt");
_root.textbox.text = loadVarsText.var1;
loadVarsText = function(success) {
if (success) {
trace("done loading");
textbox.html = true;
textbox.htmlText = this.var1;
} else {
trace("not loaded");
}
};

Controlling A Movie Clip's Timeline Separately From Main Timeline
I've got a problem here that I've been trying to figure out for a while now, and it seems like it should be way easier than this. Here's what I've got:

I'm trying to make a neato little flash swf with lots of buttons that you can push and another little movie clip will show some little animation.

I thought I could get this done pretty simply by making a bunch of buttons, giving them an over, down, hit, sound, etc. and then having one single movie clip do all of the animations, but cleverly use stop(); and gotoandplay();

I have tried a few different ways, searched through the help & tutorials, looked all over forums on the internets, and I still can't get this to work. The main timeline is really just 1 frame, and its only purpose is to just hold all of the buttons. I have given all of the buttons instance names (ending with _btn). There is a separate layer in the main timeline for the actionscript alone, and was hoping to put all of the gotoandplay commands there. The code that I am trying to use in that frame is:

Code:
this.WV_btn.onRelease = function(){this.productzmovie_mc.gotoAndPlay(2);
};
The productzmovie_mc has a command to stop(); in the first frame, and I am trying to get a button to skip to the next frame to get it going. I put a stop(); on the last frame of that animation so that it won't run through the whole thing on the first button press. If I remove that stop(); on the first frame, the whole animation just runs whenever I test it and the button has no effect.

I thought this would be way simpler than making 25 separate movie clips and hiding them or spawning them. Does anyone know what I could be doing wrong here? This seems like a pretty simple operation, and I am probably screwing up some mundane detail (I always do that). Be gentle, I am trying to learn Flash and I am a bigtime n00b. I can post the .fla if you need to see it, but it's pretty simple so far, just lots of buttons.

Thanks!

Control Main Timeline With Movie Clip In Main Movie,,
I could really need your help on this.

http://www.flashkit.com/board/showth...hreadid=465355

Movie Clip Timeline Vs. Main Timeline
Ok, i have made a movie clip in Swift 3d and have imported it into Flash MX. Now it is in the first frame as flash will place it there and what i would like to have happen is to tell frame 1 that when the movie clip's timeline ends and stops(frame 90) to then move the parent timeline to continue with stuff
If any one reads this please help or refer me to a MX book that is worth the valuble time we think we have!
Mike

Loading Movie Into Main Timeline From Movie Clip Within Main Movie
Hi there,

I'm having major difficulties loading external SWF's into my main movie. The button actions are in a movie clip within the main movie. I've used the following AS to load in my external SWF files on higher levels:-

mybutton_bn.onRelease {
loadMovieNum("two.swf",1);
unloadMovieNum(2);
unloadMovieNum(3);
unloadMovieNum(4);
unloadMovieNum(5);
}

Similarly, my external text files are not loading!

myLoadVars = new LoadVars();
myLoadVars.onLoad = function() {
my_txt.htmlText = myLoadVars.myHTMLdata;
}
myLoadVars.load("textfile.txt");

All works fine until I upload to the server. It's really driving my around the bend. Any suggestions will be gratefully received.

Many thanks

Q.

Can I Preload A Movie Clip That Is On Main Timeline?
Ive seen this done, and now I need to do it. I want to do a percentage preloader for a movie clip. I think my nesting is wrong. Here is the script as it is not working. If anyone knows how to do this, you will be helping me save the world. The crap below might be totally off. Feel free to bust on me.

cmov is the MC I want to load.

total = 250;
download = int(_root.cmov.getBytesLoaded() /1000);
if (download>=total) {
tellTarget ("_root.cmov") {
gotoAndPlay (2);
}
} else {
play ();
}

Controlling The Main Timeline From Within A Movie Clip
Hey folks

I think I have a fairly simple problem.

I have a movie clip placed on the main timeline with a button inside of it. All I want to do is assign an action to the button that tells the main timeline to move on to the next scene. However I am obviously messing something up because the best I can do is tell the main timeline to go to a specific frame within the first scene using

on (release) {
_root.gotoAndPlay(50);
}

but can't get it to go to the next scene using

on (release) {
_root.gotoAndPlay("Scene 2", 1);
}

Any ideas peeps? Any help much appreciated

Control Main Timeline From Within A Movie Clip? Help
Please help...
I have a video game on the main timeline of a scene. The scene label is "Game"... before the game starts, I have frame 1 of the main timeline attach the movie clip "Instructions" and play it. Once instructions reaches the end, I have Flash remove the video clip(works) and I want it to go back to the main timeline(Game) and play frame 2. What command do I use to have it do this? I tried:

Game.gotoAndPlay(2);
_root["Game"].gotoAndPlay(2);

BUT it Doesnt Work! I assume because "Game" is the Scene name, not a movie clip name... Any ideas on how to do this??

THANK YOU!

Controling A Main Timeline From A Movie Clip
I am simply trying to tell my main timeline to go to another scene from a movie clip. I have used:

tellTarget (_parent) {
gotoAndPlay ("scene2", 1);
}

but it just won't work. I can control the current scene using this script but not change scenes.

Any idea what the problem is?

Attaching Movie Clip To Main Timeline
I have made a movie symbol that I would like to play in the main timeline. When I place the movie symbol in the timeline it doesn't play. Am I missing something? Actionscript?

Any help would be appreciated.

Main Timeline Control From A Movie Clip
we got a problem, we want to jump to specific keyframe in the main timeline from a button in a movieclip. Please tell us how?

How To Visualize The Movie Clip In The Main Timeline
Helo,

I cant visualize the movieclip reproduction in the main timeline...

Somebody knows how can i do that?

Thanx so much

:confused:

How Do I Refer To The Main Timeline From A Movie Clip?
how do i refer to the main timeline from a movie clip?

How To Control The Main Timeline In A Movie Clip?
I tried _root.gotoAndPlay(3); in a frame of my movie clip, but it seems to have no effect.

Is there somebody who could show me the right way to do it?

thanks

Link From Movie Clip To Main Timeline
I have a links in a movie clip that need to go to scenes in my flash movie:

on (release) {
_root.gotoAndStop("Home", 1);
}

I thought adding _root. would allow the link embedded in the movie clip to find the scene "Home" frame number 1 on the main timeline - but this isn't working.

Thanks for any help.

From Movie Clip Back To Main Timeline?
I want to break up a long movie into 3 smaller movies so they are easier to manage. Not sure on the best way but here is my thinking..

Put the first movie in frame 1 on the timeline with a stop, 2nd movie on frame 2 and 3rd movie on frame 3. I put an action at the last frame of my first movieclip so that when that movie finished it would go to frame 2 of the maintimeline which would start the second movieclip.

So if i use gotoAndPlay(2); on the last frame of the movie clip it goes to frame 2 of the current movie. How do I go to frame2 of the main timeline so that is starts the next movie instead of frame 2 of the current movie?

Thanks,
-GB

Controlling A Movie Clip From Main Timeline
Hello Everybody!

I have a button (on the main timeline - in frame 1) which when clicked I want it to make my movie clip (which is on the same frame and scene as the button) go to its timeline, frame 2!

In the button action i put:

on (release) {
MyMovieClip_mc.gotoAndStop(2);
}

I have to be doing something wrong because it ain't doing it. Can anyone help?

Thanks!

Controlling The Main Timeline From Within A Movie Clip
Hi there,

I'm new to this forum so please forgive me if I'm asking a stupid question!

I have a button within a movie clip on the main timeline. The script on the button is:

on (rollOver) {
tellTarget ("_root.book1") {
gotoAndPlay(2);
tellTarget ("_root.2clip") {
gotoAndPlay(2);
}
}
}
on (release) {
gotoAndPlay("dead", 1);
loadMovieNum("resume.swf", 1);
}

The script seems to work fine except for the 'gotoAndPlay' command where I'm asking the movie to move to a different scene.

Am I missing something obvious here or are there deeper problems with the script I've written?

Please help! It's driving me insane!

Controlling A Movie Clip From The Main Timeline
this is probably a real easy issue, but for some reason, i'm just not quite getting it... my main timeline is playing, and when it gets to a certain frame, it needs to tell one of the movie clips in the background to start playing. right now i have a frame with bgmovie01.play(); but nothing happens when the main timeline advances past that frame.

Control Main Timeline From Within A Movie Clip
Is it possible to control the main timeline from within a movie clip without a button? Basically what I am doing is, I have snow using Actionscript on the main timeline, actually I have two snow effects. One is just regular snow, the other is snow that "sticks" and plies up when it hits a MovieClip.

Then, I have a couple other movie clips on the main timeline as well. One is a changing background and the other is snow at the bottom of the screen piling up.

I have 3 frames on the main timeline that keep looping to produce the snow, then inside the movieclips I have about 215 frames. Now, at the end of one of those movie clips, I want the one that was piling up snow to fade out, along with the snow effect that was piling on top of it. What I did was created another scene. However, I can't get to that scene from inside of a movie clip without a button, can I?

Thank you very much in advance.

Movie Clip Back To Main Timeline?
Here is what my Timeline looks like to help show what im saying

And here is the site in action http://scrivener07.i8.com/

OK. I want it to when you click the Enter button the enter button fades out and it does that fine. then I have a shape tween thats a trastion for an intro movie box. and it does that fine. then right after that in the gray frame is where the intro movie clip is. I got it to play by putting
Code:
GotoandStop(21);
in the frame just before the gray frame. So there, the movie clip plays fine. but now after the movie clip iin the gray frame is Finished. btw stop(); is at the end of that clip. it just stops. now I want it to continue onto the rest of the main timeline to the next shape tween. So how do I tell the Movie clip to go back to Frame 22 on the main timeline? I know you guys here are really smart and cool and I love you all. So please help me. Thanks in advanced

Scrivener07

Trying To Run Code Within A Movie Clip From The Main Timeline
here is the fla file - http://www.grokinfullness.com/example.fla

I am trying to run code that is located in the actions layer of a movie clip from the main timeline. I want to do this because I will have 10 identical movie clips that will all have to be manipulated the same way and I do not wish to have to resort to copying and pasting everything.

In the actions layer of the main timeline I put the following code -

stop();

test_mc.insertText();

In test_mc (located in a separate layer in the main timeline) I put a dynamic text box called myTest_txt and the following code in a separate layer -

stop();

insertText = function()
{
myTest_txt.text = "test" ;
trace( "testy test test" );

}

When this is run "test" should appear in the textbox and you should get the trace. Unfortunately, this does not happen. Any ideas on what I should do to make this work?

Having A Movie Clip Play The Main Timeline
How can i make a movie clip play the main time line?

Can A Movie Clip Control The Main Timeline?
ok, heres the deal, im making a game in which if you hit the movie clip (path_mc) you go to the next level (the next frame). The script is on the player.
heres what my script looks like:

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (this.hitTest(_root.path)) {
//action to get to timeline{
nextFrame()
}
}
}

i need a way to preform an action from movie clip to timeline
i tried _parent.timeline, _root.timeline is there any way i could set timeline as a variable?
please help.
thanks in advance.

Movie Clip Not Playing In Main Timeline?
let me get straight to the point - I think it's a bug.

Have you had this problem. I have a moviclip with some text tweened, it is inside another movieclip, and that movie clip is on the main timeline. With I view the swift, I can't see the text. But if I test the movie clip with the text "test scene", it works perfectly, it only doesn't work if I view the whole movie. The text seems to be there but I can't see it, becuase my cursor changes into a text thingy (no it is not hidden behind something else), it is in front. There is noothing wrong with my file, I have looked at every single possible avenue.

I also tried creating a swf out of this movieclip with the text and then load the swf into a movie clip holder

var myMCL:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader();

myMCL.loadClip("text.swf", "textcontainer");

and it still doesn't work.

BUT, if I load this movie clip into the FIRST scene (root scene), it works. It only doesn't work when it is in another movieclip, which is where I need it. On my main timeline I have a movieclip called "site content" and all my content is in there, so it needs to be in there.

WTF is going on, can you guys help.

Also, on more question, with the exit command for a projector

on (release) {
fscommand ("quit");
}

It quits it straight away. Can I get it to quit after a certain time interval, like 5 seconds so I can hear the button sound and have a little animation before it closes.

Thanks guys

Controlling Main Timeline From Within A Movie Clip
i have a game built that happens within the first frame of a scene--stop action keeps it there. i have a hit action on the timeline of a movie clip (which is on the main timeline) which controls other movie clips on the main timeline successfully, but i need it to tell the main timeline to go to the next scene or frame when the hit action indicates the game is over. i thought...

_root.gotoAndPlay(nextScene);
or
_root.gotoAndPlay(nextFrame);

... would do the trick. i tried the same thing with _parent instead of _root to no avail. any ideas?

i pity the fool who don't help me.

[CS3] Playing A Movie Clip From Main Timeline
Hello friends

I have a problem trying to play another frame in a movie clip from a button on my main timeline. I made a scroll bar and I have Movieclips within many other movie clips. I am trying to play an animation which will change the content that the scroll bar has. However I cant get the movie clip to play another frame from my button on the main timeline. I know if you want a movie clip to play from the main timeline the code looks something like this:

on (release) {_root.pages.gotoAndPlay(2);}

But I think I am having problems because the the movie clip im trying to play is within two other movie clips. Is there code that can get me what I am trying to acomplish??

Thanks
djratlif

Movie Clip Symbols Vs Using Main Timeline
I have a Newb problem.

I think the main advantage to created a movie clip symbol as opposed to doing the animating in the main stage and timeline is that it can get very cluttered very easy. But I am really frustrated that you can't see the animation of movie clip symbols when scrolling through the through the frames in the main timeline. It makes working with movie clips next to impossible for me. I'm sure I'm not understanding something.

Can anyone help me with this?

Controlling Movie Clip On Main Timeline
I have a button within a mc and I want it to play on the main timeline, which it does, however when it gets to the last specified frame I want it to go to another frame.
Here is my actionscript I has thus far.
on (release) {
_root.gotoAndPlay(75);
}
Basically I want all of my buttons to play frame 75, however after that each button has a different frame that I need it to go to and play. So frame 75 is basically a transition to the other pages. Each page has that same transition. Any ideas on how to accomplish this?

Movie Clip Continues Main Timeline When Done
Hey all,

Any help with this is much appreciated. Since the forums updated i haven't been able to search any topics. So if this question has been previously asked, I'm sorry.

Alright, I have the main timeline of stop just as a movie clip begins to play. When that clip is done, what is the command i put into the last frame of the timeline of the movie clip to make the main movie timeline get going again?

I'm sure this is simple to someone out there. Thanks in advance!

How To Get Back To Main Timeline From Movie Clip
Hi! I'm wondering how to exit a movie clip back to a specific frame in the main timeline. What code should I use for my actionscript? Thanks!

Controlling Main Timeline From Within Movie Clip
I'm sure this is insanely easy to do, but i can't for the life of me get it to work... here's the problem:

I have a movieclip on my main timeline that contains buttons with in. What I want to happen is that when you press a button in the movie clip, I want it to control where you are going on the MAIN timeline.

Example: (Coded to button in movieclip)

On(press){
gotoAndPlay ("ABOUT");
}

ABOUT is the instance name on the main timeline that i want the movie to jump to. I need a target path or something to tell the button to go to ABOUT on the main timeline and not on the timeline of the movieclip. What do i do?

HELP!

Thx.

- Chris

A Button That Plays An MC Clip, But Goes To A Diffrent Frame On Main Timeline
Hey all
Newbie in need of some help, am using Flash MX 2004. Ok, im trying to deisgn a photography site and need some help with the buttons. When you click between pictures (Clicking on the thumbnails) I want a disolve to white, between the images, so theres a smooth transition.

How I thought I could do this is to have an MC, that is called into action when the button is clicked. So the process would be like this......

On click-play movie
-jump to frame X and stop.

The movie would be a second or so long, but the jump to frame would have to be done quicker than that, and underneath the MC- if that makes sense.

I know that this can be done by using diffrent scenes, but I have about 100 pictures to put on and dont really fancy making 100 scenes!

If anyone can help with this then you will make my day, cheers

Control The Play On The Main Timeline From Within A Loaded Movie (not A Movie Clip)?
Question... I have a movie (main movie) that loads another movie (movie 2) automatically. Movie 2 contains a button that loads yet another movie (movie3). Now I’m having trouble with this next part... When movie3 loads I want "main movie" to stop where it’s at in the timeline and stop all other loaded movies until the user clicks another button where upon movie 3 will go away and "main movie" will resume. Movie 2 is like the paper clip guy in Word and movie 3 is my help movie. Therefore, it can be accessed at any point during the main movie and I don’t want to use a goTo command to jump to a frame label or scene. Does anyone have any idea how to control the play on the main timeline from within a loaded movie (not a movie clip)?

Movie Clip In Graphic Referenced By Main Timeline
I'm trying to place a scroll bar/text box smart clip atop a graphic being referenced by a button on the main timeline. the text box is declared as a variable and the smart clip loads a text file into the text box. I can get it to work within it's own scene, but in the main movie the text isn't loading into the textbox. For a reference I'm using the same navigaion as the Flashkit featured.fla and same movie structure. Any ideas?

STILL Problem Controlling Main Timeline With Movie Clip
Okay, here's what I need to have happen.

I have a picture album. When a button is clicked, I want it to give a certain value to a variable and then go play a movie clip of a "page turning", and then assign the movie clip an action at the end of the page turn that says if that variable equals "this", then go and play a certain frame in the main time line. Then different buttons will each play the page turn and then go to a different frame according to what variables I assigned them.

Here's what I've got for the button:

on (release) {
_root.a=="1"
_root.gotoAndPlay ("turn")
}

and this is on the last frame of the movie clip:

if (_root.a == "1") {
_root.gotoAndPlay("Scene 1", "page2");
}

The movie clip just loops, and doesn't go play what I want even when there's a stop command at the end, it just stops on that frame in the clip.
What am I doing wrong?

Viewing Movie Clip On Stage (main Timeline)
I want to view a movie clip on the stage (main timeline) so I can get coordinates for some objects in the clip. However, I dragged an instance of the clip to a frame in the main timeline, and all I see is a black dot with a registration point (representing the clip.) How can I view the clip (short of copying and pasting frames from the clip to the main timeline) on the stage to get coordinates of objects in the clip? Thanks.

Assigning Actions From A Movie Clip To The Main Timeline
I have created a drop down menu in a movie clip.
When the user selects a button in the drop down menu I want it to go to a different frame on the main timeline.
What action do I use?
I have tried the root property action but it doesn't seem to work when I test the movie.
Maybe I am typing it in correctly or something, can anyone help?
Is there a better way of achieving this?

How Can I Target A Variable Used In A Movie Clip On The Main Timeline?
I use a variable in a movie clip to keep time and on the main timeline I wnat to have a message at the end of the program telling you how long you've taken. How can I get the value from the variable in the movie clip to be targetted?

Passing Variables From The Main Timeline To A Movie Clip.
Hi. I have (successfully) taken variables from a txt file and had them display in some dynamic text boxes on the main timeline of my movie, BUT, I would like them to show in a movie clip (within that movie) instead of showing on the main timeline/movie. The movie is here (the variables aren't shown there) and what I wanna have done is have the variables load up in the main timeline, but when the user presses the launch shoutbox button, I want the variables to be shown in there, get me? So how would I go about passing the variables from the timeline to that movie clip?
Thanks in advance, Chris.

Controlling Main Timeline From Movie Clip Buttons
Hello,
I have a drop down menu that is a movie clip, when you mouse over it, It drops down and 5 buttons are displayed. So when i put action scipt in it to make the main timeline go to a different flag, It doesn't work. this is what i have tried so far.

Code:
on (release) {
gotoAndPlay("_root", "dorms");
}

Code:
on (release) {
gotoAndPlay("Scene 1", "dorms");
}

Code:
on (release) {
gotoAndPlay("dorms");
}

Anybody help me