Flash :: Pausing A Movie Clip When A Mouse Goes Over It.

Pausing A Movie Clip When A Mouse Goes Over It.
Okay, so there is a movie on the timeline, and at the end of it there is an action frame that stops the movie so it doesn't loop.

However, the last frame on another layer is also a movie clip, of a rotating circle. This rotating circle has buttons on it that will load other parts of the site. I want the circle to stop rotating whenever someone puts their mouse over it.

How can this be accomplished?

Please keep answers simple, precise, and easy to understand. I'm an artist and I don't know code very well.

Pausing A Movie On Mouse Over,
Hi

I have a movie clip of boxes moving up the screen, I want the tween to pause when the user moves their cursor over the movie and start again when they roll off.

could someone please tell me how i could do this?

Cheers,

Pausing A Movie Clip.
i'm a student taking my first flash class.
I was wondering how to pause a movie clip on roll over. It would be for a photo section. the pictures loop across the screen in a vertical bar. The bar would pause on roll over. then you can click on it and the full size pic will be loaded.
i was referencing the final fantasy site. their url is http://www.finalfantasy.com. click on enter, then on gallery, then on the "A" button. the photobar animates in then in loops.

if anybody could help or point me in the right direction that would be great!! thanks.

Pausing A Movie Clip
Hi!

I did a forum search to find my answer for this, but none of the suggesitons worked....

I have a button on the stage in the main timeline. Filling the background of the stage there is a looping movie clip.

My button's code is as follows:

on (rollOver) {
tellTarget ("/rollOverBlue") {
gotoAndPlay("Blue1");
}
}
on (rollOut) {
tellTarget ("/rollOverBlue") {
gotoAndPlay("Blue2");
}
}

I want to add an "On (Release)" which will pause the looping movie clip in the background. It is in the the bottom layer on the main timeline.

Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

Pausing A Movie Clip
I have a button where when clicked, should pause a movie clip running in the same timeline.

is there a way to do this?

Cheers

Pausing End Of Movie Clip
I am trying to pause the end of a movie clip, not with buttons for the user, within the timeframe. If I try to extend the movie it starts over, if I copy the last frame of the movie the first frame always shows up. I am trying to do is hold the last frame of the movie for about 10 seconds then continue on with the animation

New to Flash
working with Flash MX Professional 2004
Thanks in advance!

Pausing A Movie Clip
i have a banner im making and want to have various things fade in and out and time intervals. i want to play a PAUSE between effects. i know i could probably do this on the timeline. however, i want to use actionscript. anyone have any ideas ?? thanks for anyones help in advance !!

Pausing Main Movie With Clip
Hello,

This is probably on here somewhere but I am unable to find exactly what I need so I hope someone can help.

(1)I have a movie that spans about 20 scenes and I want to have the option of an expandable menu on the bottom. When that menu is expanded I would like it to pause the movie wherever it is and have the menu options come up over the frozen movie as a background. There is also sound that would have to pause.

I have another related question too:

(2)In another movie I also have a menu that expands when clicked. This I would like to stay expanded when the user goes to next scene however it returns to its collapsed position. Is there a way to have Flash remember the state it was in for the previous scene?
Here is the url for the second question:
www.folkphotography.com/index_files/dogs.html

Thank you for any tips.

Pausing A Movie Clip By Looking At The Status Of Another Movie Clip
can I attach actionscript to a movie clip, so that it will pause and unpause as another movie clip does?

here is an example of what I mean

I want movie clip A to look at the status of movie clip B.
If movie clip B is stopped, I want movie clip A to stop too.
When movie clip B is playing, I want movie clip A to play too.

It is important that I solve this problem in exactly this way, in other words I am not interested in code that will stop all movie clips.

[MX,04] Help Pausing A Movie Clip For X Amount Of Seconds.
Hello all,
Looking for a quick script to pause a movie clip for about 3 second, afterward it would resume playing.

Thanks for the help!

Pausing A Movie Clip Embedded In A .swf When The .swf Is Paused
Hi everyone,

I'm new to this site so I hope I'm in the right place - I've tried searching for this answer but have got nowhere.

I'm stuck on a problem I'm having with a flash animation I'm working on.

I have embedded several movie clip for various things inside the main movie.

My problem is that when the main movie is paused, the embedded movie clips keep on playing.

Is there a way to somehow link the embedded clips to the main movie so that if the main movie is paused, the embedded clips will pause at the same place?

Do I have to redo the entire movie un-embedding the movie clips to solve this problem?

Thanks for your help!

Meriel

[MX,04] Pausing A Movie Clip For X Amount Of Seconds.
Hello all,
Looking for a way to pause a movie clip for about 3 second, afterward it would resume playing.

Thanks for the help!

[CS3] Pausing A Looping Movie Clip At A Specified Moment
I am building a non-interactive animation based on slot machine reels which will be exported as a quicktime movie and burned to a DVD for playback.

To create the looping of the three reels, I've used the following script:

Code:
onClipEvent (load) {
looping.duplicateMovieClip("slots");
slots._y=looping._y+looping._height;
loopStarty=this._y
loopSpeed=30;
}

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if(_root.bg.loopStart) {
this._y-=loopSpeed;
if(this._y<=(loopStarty-looping._height)) {
this._y=loopStartx-loopSpeed;
}
}
}
However, I want to pause the looping at specified moments in order to match up the images (like winning on a slot machine). I'm assuming that there is a function in which I can say "Pause 'slots' after looping 1.3 times for 30 seconds" or "Pause 'slots' for 30 seconds after looping for 3 seconds".

Again, there is no interactivity - this is just a looping animation that will run on a screen.

Thanks!

[MX,04] Help Pausing A Movie Clip For X Amount Of Seconds.
Hello all,
Looking for a quick script to pause a movie clip for about 3 second, afterward it would resume playing.

Thanks for the help!

Pausing A Movie Clip For A Given Time With Action Script
hey i want to stop a movie clip after a given time.
example: movie clip A stop after 1:17, Movie Clip B stop after 2:10 min.
How can I do that? I need different times for different frames, so it shouldn't depend on the movie clip. Do i use get timer function? And if yes, can someone help me with the script???
Thnx a lot!!

Mouse Rollover On One Movie Clip Increase Decrease Alpha Of Another Movie Clip..
So I really haven't messed with Actionscript much for a couple years and here is my issue.

I have several movieclips I put together that will eventually be a menu for my website. When you roll over a menu option (movieclip) I am trying to get another movie clip to fade in giving the description of the menu item.

For example - when you roll your mouse over the 'Live Chat' option a brief text description would appear telling you what the live chat is about. This description is a seperate movie clip appearing away from the original menu.

I have made the movieclips for the menu and the movie clips for the descriptions. I tried this action on the menu option to get the description to fade in:

Code:
onClipEvent (load) {
this._parent.mc_text_discussionBoard._alpha = 0;
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
this.onRollOver = function() {
if (this._parent.mc_text_discussionBoard._alpha<100) {
this._parent.mc_text_discussionBoard._alpha += 5;
}
};
}
But the alpha only increases on the description (mc_text_discussionBoard) by 5 when I keep rolling my move over and out and over again. It makes sense why it does that, but I'm not exaclty sure how to get it to continually increase the alpha by 5.

any help would be great and I am anxiously waiting to get this solved!
Kevin

Problem Getting Movie Clip Inside Of Movie Clip To Face Mouse
I used the code below to make a movie clip face the mouse, it works when I use it on a movie clip that's not embedded in another movie clip, but when I used it on an embedded movie clip, it's axis seems to change.

Attach Code

var stickGun:MovieClip = this.stick_holder.stickGun_mc;
//stick_holder.stick_mc.stickGun_mc

stage.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, onMove);
//stick_holder.stick_mc.stickGun_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_MOVE, onMove);

function onMove(event:Event):void {
// get the radian value of the angle between the clip and the mouse...
var myRadians:Number = Math.atan2(mouseY - stickGun.y, mouseX - stickGun.x);
// convert it to degrees...
var myDegrees:Number = Math.round((myRadians * 180 / Math.PI));
// get the horizontal and vertical distance between the clip and the mouse...
// rotate the clip toward the mouse...
stickGun.rotation = myDegrees;
}

Movie Clip Mouse Speed Control Depending On Mouse Press
Hi,
Please help me !
As iam developing a small ball game in flash, where i need to control the speed of the ball (i.e, to increase or decrease the speed of ball)when clicked on a button depending on mouse press .

I have done similar on key press but iam not able to do the same for mouse pressed.

Please help me out

Your help will be appreciated.

Thanks & Regards
Zabi

Playing A Movie Clip On Mouse Over And Continue To Last Frame On Mouse Out
Hi All,

I have a movie clip on the timeline which is an animated mouseover button

Basically what I need to do is for the movie to be stopped at frame one when there is no mouse over and loop continuosly when I do have mouse over then on mouse out i want it to finish it's frames playing from where ever it was at when the mouse was moved out to the last frame and then display frame one so it is stopped again ready for a new mouse over.

Something I have found difficult to work out is that whilst it is doing the "out" play to to last frame, if you put the mouse back over again, it starts from frame 1 so looks like it jumps so i need the mouse over to also read what frame it is currently playing so that it can continue its endless loop from that frame to avoid it jumping about.

I hope that makes sense, it's really difficult to describe in words.

Here's the movie clip's action as it is now.

on (rollOver)
{
this.gotoAndPlay("over");
}
on (releaseOutside, rollOut)
{
this.gotoAndPlay("out");
}

ok so in the movie's timeline itself, the label "over" is a frame containing another movieclip which is basically a continous 30 frame loop and my movie timeline is stop();

so, on (rollOut) it plays at label "out"

I have placed a copy of the movie loop at the "out" frame which plays the movie slower at the end to make it a nice wind down stop

what I thought to do in action script is to read the current frame that the movie loop is at and make so the "out" position movie starts its playing frame from that frame number until it reaches the end frame where it jumps back to frame one of the timeline with the first stopped frame.

I've seen a command something like this below used to get the current frame number and take it away from the total to continue playing from that point, that's not totally right for what I am doing but it shows me the sort of thing i need to write but i don't know how to write an actionscript to read the current frame from the movie1 whcih is playing and start playing movie2 at "out" from that frame number?

on (rollOut) {gotoandPlay(_totalframes - _currentframe); }

maybe there is an easier way to get this to work, i've seen lots of similar examples on the web but nothing that specifically plays a lopp and then continues to the end on mouse out. it sounds simple but I've tried all weekend to do it without success?

Can anyone help me please?

Thanks,
Terrence.

Problem With Movie Clip Moving When The Mouse Passes Over A Button On The Clip
The swf in question calls up a series of ads. To change the ads the user clicks on the forward and back button. However, when you mouseover the forward and back buttons the controlBar goes a bit haywire (as a result of the mouseOut on it).

All the files are attached in a zip file. Thanks in advance for your help guys.

Pausing The Slideshow If The Mouse Is On Any Button...Help
Hello all,

I have creatived a slideshow which functions beautifully so far. Slideshow has two buttons:

Previous Image
Next Image

SetInterval function changes the image every five seconds. What I would like to do is to pause the slideshow if the mouse is either on either of the buttons.

var iRoll:Object = new Object();

iRoll.onMouseMove = function() {
clearInterval(myInterval);
};

Mouse.addListener(iRoll);

All I want is to detect onRollOver event on either of the mentioned buttons and stop the slideshow. And if the the onRollout event takes place then invoke the slideshow.

Is there anyway I can declare such logic:

IF ROLLOVER ON ANY BUTTON ON THE STAGE IS TRUE, CLEARINTERVAL(); ELSE SLIDSHOW();

Any help would highly be appreciated.

Thanks.

Mouse Over And Movie Clip
please can anyone help, am trying to play a movie clip when mouse rollover event occurs but without having the movie clip actually on the stage. I'd like to control the x/y location.
Another thing, there's an object on my stage (just a stroke) and i'd like to change the colour when my mouse rolls over a button.

thx in advance, you wonderful people out there

debi

Movie Clip Under Mouse Help
hi everyone,
i have a problem i have been working on for 3 hours now.

i have a button and on the up state of the button there is a movieClip....and when you dbl-click on the movie clip(in the editing mode, not the flash swf) there is 2 frames, each has a stop on the frame, and frame1 is box and frame2 is a circle.

how would i go about changing the frame to frame2 on the movieClip through actionScripting?

i have tried everything, _root.butt.movClp.gotoAndStop(2)
_root.movClp.gotoAndStop(2)
_parent.butt.movClp.gotoAndStop(2)

i would love some help.
thanks
-mike

Mouse/Movie Clip Help
Can you help?

I have a movie clip which when it is rolled over hides the mouse and when rollled out shows the mouse. This section i have worked out!

What i need next is when the movie clip is rolled over the mouse turns into a custom cursor which moves in the confines of that clip, so that when you rolll off the movie clip the normal cursor remumes.

Any help would be grand!

Jemes

Mouse Over Movie Clip
Hi,
I was wondering how I could detect if the cursor is over the movie clip. Could someone please help me out. I am trying to create a movieclip object as button but I don't know how to detect to see if the cursor is on the movie.
Thanks.

Shirley

Help With Mouse Over Movie Clip
I have a series of buttons with movie clip, however i just need to change the text on Life Event Planner button and the Equifax button. When i try to do this the text will change for all three buttons Life Events, Equifax and Credential direct. I basically copied the credential button to make the other two buttons. How can i change the text on the other two buttons without modifying the credential direct button??
http://www.vantis.mb.ca/images/swf/grow_opp_prosp2.html

Please help and thank you.
Fasash

On Mouse Out Movie Clip
How can i create a On mouse out movie clip for flash
please help me..i am a real beginner.
thank you

Every Movie Clip Is Responding To The Mouse
I have about 20 different movie clips on one layer, each with its own onClipEvent(mouseup) event. If I click anywhere in the movie (even if it's not on one of the clips), every single clip fires its event! What is my problem?

Rotate Movie Clip With Mouse?
how could i have a user rotate a moive clip by there mouse? like were the mouse is is were the rotation of the mouse will be. i included a file link, maybe youll get a better idea what im trying to do
http://www.onlinesolutions.netfirms.comMovie1.zip

Thanks
Mark

Mouse Movie Clip Scoll
I need to know, if anyone has tried to control the x y postion of a movie clip, by moving the mouse. I'm just starting out in actionscripting, so this is quite a task for me. If anyone could give me help, I'd really apreciate it.

I don't want ot attach the movie clip to the mouse (like a cursor replacement deal.) I just want to make the movie move in the opposite direction that my mouse moves.

Kind of like navigating through the MC.

How Do I Change To Mouse To A Movie Clip?
I'm trying to get the mouse to be a movie clip (I think that's what they do), I've tried and tried, but failed.
So if anyone know how to solve my problem, please reply.
And one more thing, if you know how to get a moviclip to be copied many times (I only get 1 copy).
Oh, almost forgot, I use Flash 5

mmmmm....... doughnuts

Movie Clip Timeline Following Mouse?
Hi everyone,

I was wondering if any of you could help me figure this out...

I have a MC that on frame 1 to 20 has a wave motion that apears to move from left to right.

What I'd like to happen is when your mouse is on the right side of the screen the MC time line moves from 1-20 and stops. And, when your mouse is on the Left side of the screen the MC plays in reverse order so it appers the wave is attracted to the mouse.... (also, when the mouse is in the middle of the screen the wave peaks in the middle). You can see the example of the wave on my portfolio site:
http://homepage.mac.com/michelledwyer/

I've seen this done before and I dont' think it should be that hard, just can' t figure it out on my own.

Thanks in advance!
dwyermm7

Mouse Over +movie Clip Move
ok this one might need some explaination
on some site they have for instance a mouse(rodent not computer)
and when the computer mouse goes over it. it moves to a differnt spot
the effect is you cant catch it.
does anyone know who to do this

www.royaltenenbaums.com
thanks

Movie Clip Scrolls With Mouse
Does anyone know the most efficient way to achive this scrolling movie clip effect?

http://www.salvacampillo.com

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Movie Clip Follow Mouse
What do i need to do to have a movie clip follow my mouse around the stage? Thanks

Rotate Movie Clip With Mouse
hello dear friends and "word up' to you on this fine warm day.

i am action xcripting in mx 2004
or rather ....
trying to!

chorrtle chorrtle chorrtle chorrtle

how does one alow the mc to rotate on a user mouse click?

Does Anyone Know How To Make A Movie Clip Run Away From The Mouse?
hi, i was just wondering if anyone know how to make a movie clip run away from the mouse?

How Would I Get A Movie Clip To Gravitate Towards The Mouse?
I'd like to know how I would get a movieclip to come towards the mouse when the cursor is within a certain radius, and follow it around, and snap back to the orig position when the cursor leaves the radius.

How Do I Check If The Mouse Is Above Or Not Above A Movie Clip?
How do I check if the mouse is above or not above a movie clip?

Regards,

Glen Charles Rowell

How To Get Rid Of The Mouse Pointer Over A Movie Clip
Hello!

I have a movie clip that acts as a button. There is one specific layer with an image on that layer inside of my movie clip that I do not want the mouse pointer (as in the finger pointing - I just want it to be the arrow) to show up when it's over that image.

Is there any actionscript (3) that I can put on that layer to not make the mouse pointer come up when the mouse is over top that specific image?

Thanks!!

How Do You Get A Movie Clip To Avoid The Mouse?
Is there a simple way in Falsh MX to get a graphic or movie clip to avoid the mouse similar to the way its done in the built in Director behaviour?

Smooth Mouse Following Movie Clip?
Alright, so I'm halfway through doing this, I can achieve a smooth movement, but the Movie Clip goes too fast when the mouse is very far and too slow when the mouse is very close. What I want to do is input a maximum speed limit and a minimum speed limit on the mouse-following Movie Clip. How can I do it?

Here's the code of the Movie Clip:

ActionScript Code:
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
_root.yChange = Math.round(_root._ymouse-this._y);
// Calculates the distance between the movie clip and the mouse
_root.xChange = Math.round(_root._xmouse-this._x);
// Calculates the distance between the movie clip and the mouse
_root.yMove = Math.round(_root.yChange/20);
// Determines the amount the movie clip should move toward the mouse, grows larger the further the mouse gets from the MC
_root.xMove = Math.round(_root.xChange/20);
// See above
this._y += _root.yMove;
//Adds yMove onto the position of the clip (Note: Must be '+=' and not '-=' or else the MC will move away from the mouse, not towards it
this._x += _root.xMove;
// See above
}
Thanks!

Darg Mouse /movie Clip
i creat a new movie clip .i use loop for display movie clip.it's name numberofnode = 3 and i want to drag it when use loop.

var numberofnodes = 3;
for (i=1; i<=numberofnodes; i++) {
this.createEmptyMovieClip("node"+i, i);
var node = eval("node"+i);
node.beginFill(0xFD0B0B);
node.moveTo(20,30);
node.lineTo(50,60);
node.lineTo(20,60);
node.endFill();
node._x = 200;
node._y = 100;

node.onPress = function() {
startDrag("node"+i);
}
node.onRelease = function() {
stopDrag();
}
trace(node);
}
---------
output
_level0.node1
_level0.node2
_level0.node3

i want to drag 3 node to move any whrer.but i can not do it,please help me

Controlling Movie Clip With Mouse
Hi
First of all excuse my english, it is not my mother tongue.

Well, I am designing a website where I have a world that rotates non stoop (loop). I want this to be my navigation menu, and I have put buttons in different cities. However, I want that the users are able to rotate the world at will. When they move the mouse to the right, it shoul rotate to the right, but if the mouse goes left, the world should rotate to the left.

I´ve found a lot of tutorials on how to make menus with this effect, but they controll a single graphic. I don´t need to move an object, I need to control if the clip plays normally or goes basckwards..

Is this possible??? PLease help me

thank you very much

Mouse Wheel + Movie Clip
I know you can use the mouse wheel to scroll through text in the flash componenet scroll pane, but is there a way to set it up to work with the code I have posted below? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I am starting to look into this now, just figured I'd ask here and hopefully make my search much easier.

ActionScript Code:
fscommand("allowscale", "false");bar.useHandCursor = dragger.useHandCursor=false;space = 5;friction = .8;speed = 4;y = dragger._y;top = main._y;bottom = main._y+mask_mc._height-main._height-space;dragger.onPress = function() { drag = true; this.startDrag(false, this._x, this._parent.y, this._x, this._parent.y+this._parent.bar._height-this._height); dragger.scrollEase();};dragger.onMouseUp = function() { this.stopDrag(); drag = false;};////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////dragger.onRollOver = function() { dragger.gotoAndPlay("over");};dragger.onRollOut = function() { dragger.gotoAndPlay("off");};up_btn.onRollOver = function() { dragger.gotoAndPlay("over");};up_btn.onRollOut = function() { dragger.gotoAndPlay("off");};down_btn.onRollOver = function() { dragger.gotoAndPlay("over");};down_btn.onRollOut = function() { dragger.gotoAndPlay("off");};////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////bar.onPress = function() { drag = true; if (this._parent._ymouse>this._y+this._height-this._parent.dragger._height) { this._parent.dragger._y = this._parent._ymouse; this._parent.dragger._y = this._y+this._height-this._parent.dragger._height; } else { this._parent.dragger._y = this._parent._ymouse; } dragger.scrollEase();};bar.onMouseUp = function() { drag = false;};moveDragger = function (d) { if ((dragger._y>=y+bar._height-dragger._height && d == 3) || (dragger._y<=y && d == -3)) { clearInterval(myInterval); } else { dragger._y += d; dragger.scrollEase(); updateAfterEvent(); }};up_btn.onPress = function() { myInterval = setInterval(moveDragger, 9, -3);};down_btn.onPress = function() { myInterval = setInterval(moveDragger, 9, 3);};up_btn.onMouseUp = down_btn.onMouseUp=function () { clearInterval(myInterval);};MovieClip.prototype.scrollEase = function() { this.onEnterFrame = function() { if (Math.abs(dy) == 0 && drag == false) { delete this.onEnterFrame; } r = (this._y-y)/(bar._height-this._height); dy = Math.round((((top-(top-bottom)*r)-main._y)/speed)*friction); main._y += dy; };};

Rotating A Movie Clip With Mouse
Hello everyone!

Hope life is good

What I am trying to do is get an arrow to spin and always point at the curser.

What I have done is created to movie clips, one that is empty but has this code (this clip has the instance name of clip)

onClipEvent(enterFrame){

x = (_root._xmouse - _root.comp._x);
y = (_root._ymouse - _root.comp._y);
hyp = Math.sqrt(Math.pow(x,2) + Math.pow(y,2));
cos = x / hyp;
rad = Math.acos(cos);
deg = Math.floor(180/(Math.PI / rad));

if(y <0){
deg = -deg;
}else if((Math.floor(y) == 0) && (x <0)){
deg = 180;
}
}

onClipEvent(mouseDown){
trace("x = " + x);
trace("y = " + y);
trace("hyp = " + hyp);
trace("cos = " + cos);
trace("rad = " + rad);
trace("deg = " + deg);
}

On the second movie clip I have an arrow and the following code (this clip has an instance name of comp)

clip.deg.
onClipEvent(enterFrame){
this._rotation = _root.clip.deg;
}

I can only get it to follow the cursor for 90 degs not the full 360.

Any help would be well helpful

Thanks,
Matt