Flash :: Start Playing Movie Clip Instance In A Frame

Preload Issue: Start Playing The Movie Once A Certain Frame Has Been Loaded.
I'm building a quite large flash movie with hundreds of movieclips (with their own preloaders) with approx 150 frames in the _root timeline. But I've until now never been very confident with preloaders, and that is causing me hairloss.

Once the user enter the site, I want a preloader to come up, but I want to use actionscript to start playing frame 2 once frame 2 content is loaded, not start playing frame 2 once the WHOLE movie is loaded.

I use the below code for simple preloading with no feedback of progress, however it loads the whole movie before it start playback of frame 2:

if (_framesloaded>=_totalframes) {
gotoAndPlay (2);
} else {
gotoAndPlay (1);
}

All help is greatly appreciated.

Rex

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Movie Clip Instance Not Playing Correctly
I've got a series of walkcycle animations in a movie clip which I'm using in combination with key presses to make the character walk across the screen. When I press up, left or right the clip plays the relevant frame so the character faces and walks in the right direction. There are only two walkcycle clips in reality, despite the four directions. The other two directions are instances of the first two clips flipped horizontally to face the other way. Now this is working fine for the clip that is facing away from the user. However for the clip that walks towards the user something strange is happening. When I press "left" the clip works and loops through the animation correctly. When I press "down" the clip plays an instance of the same clip flipped in the other direction but it won't play the whole timeline! As a result the character limps or hops across the screen in that direction.
So I tried to make a separate movie clip that was facing that direction without flipping, and it still did the same thing! I've changed it back to the way it was, and I've searched and searched for conflicting actionscript.
Can someone take a look and tell me if its just my stupid computer/keyboard playing up, or whether I've just overlooked something. Its driving me mad, and I want to move on to something else! I'm using FlashMX2004
Thanks people!

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Playing One Movie Clip Instance After Another Reaches It's Target
Hi,

Basically I have 1 movie clip called mc1, inside this movie clip contains another movie clip with an instance name of "shape" and another movie with an instance name "box. To control the x position and alpha of the instance "shape" and the xscale of "box I have the following codes on frames 1-3 inside of mc1

frame 1:

//initialize xscale, alpha, x parameters
shapeX = shape._x;
shape1X = shape._alpha;
targetX = shapeX;
target1X = shape1X;

buttonScale = box._xscale;
buttonTarget = buttonScale;

frame 2:

//apply x position equation
if (shapeX<>targetX) {
shapeX = Math.round (shapeX+(targetX-shapeX)/4);

shape._x = shapeX;
}

//apply alpha equation
if (shape1X<>target1X) {
shape1X = Math.round (shape1X+(target1X-shape1X)/15);

shape._alpha = shape1X;
}

//apply xscale equation
if (buttonScale<>buttonTarget) {
buttonScale = Math.round (buttonScale+(buttonTarget-buttonScale)/10);

box._xscale = buttonScale;
}

frame 3:

gotoAndPlay(2);

mc1 is placed on the main timeline and the code attached to mc1 is:

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
targetX = -660;
buttonTarget = 0;
}

basically all this moves the instance "shape" from right to left and changes the xscale of the instance "box, however both animations start at the same time

I want to perform the xscale of "box" after the instance "shape" reaches its target but am unsure how to do this. Please advise.

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Did I learn this once or was I dreaming? I want to bring multiple instances of the same movie clip to a single frame on the main timeline. My movie clip is 35 frames long, all 35 frames with a different keyframe. On the main timeline, I want each instance of the movie clip to start playing the movie clip on a different frame so that each instance is not identical to the other, but staggered. Isn't there a way to do this?

Thanks,

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Actionscript To Start At Frame In Movie Clip
I have Actionscript on a frame:

if(button_name == "button1"){
tellTarget ("frameTransition") {
gotoAndPlay(14);
}
}

This plays a movie clip at frame 14 that has an instance of frameTransition. This works fine. But when I get to frame 26 of this movie clip I want to play frame 2 of a different clip.

Something like this to add to the above code:

when frame == 26
tellTarget ("frameButton1") {
gotoAndPlay(2);
}

I know that "when fame == 26" is not correct. Can someone tell me the correct syntax indicate when I am at the frame of one movie clip to to start playing at a frame on a different clip.

I need to note that putting the following code on frame 26 of the first movie clip is not the solution I'm looking for.

tellTarget ("frameButton1") {
gotoAndPlay(2);
}

Thanks,

Rod

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[F8]Playing A Movie Clip From A Certain Frame To A Certain Frame With A Button
Hey guys,

im slamming my head in trying to figure this out.

I have an invisible button and only one mc, the mc loops 3x then stops, this is defined with as in mc.

Now i want to play the movie from the invisible button but only loop it once.
Which means i would like to play it from frame 1 to frame 215.

And also when u rollout i would like the movie to stop and go to frame 1.

this is my button code so far

Code:
on (rollOver) {
tellTarget ("loader")
{
gotoAndPlay (1);}}

on(rollOut){
tellTarget ("loader") {
gotoAndStop(1);}}

on (release)
{
getURL(clickTAG, "_blank");
}
Help please

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Hello,

I have a movie clip call t-home, it is on the stage with an instance name of home...

When i get to a certain frame in my intro i want the movie clip to start playing, (also when they click a button later on, bur dont worry about this)

its not playing though... this is my script on the timeline

telltarget ("_root.home"){
gotoAndPlay(2);
}

and ideas

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I need a button to have play a movie clip but I dont want it to play from the start. I want to it to play from frame 26.

heres the code i have that makes it start from the start. How can I change it make it play from frame 26?

on (release) {
gotoAndPlay ("_root.linksmovie.");
}

Lee

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Hello,
I'm working on a flash doc with multiple movie clips within each other. One is 3 levels down and I want it to play a frame at one level up. I know that if there were only 2 levels the code would look like:

on (release) {
_root.gotoAndPlay(18);
}

But since I don't want it to go to the root, I'm not sure how to make it go to the other clip. Can anyone help here?

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Playing A Frame Outside A Movie Clip...
with ActionScript, Is it possible???

Scenario
Scene 1
------welcome_movie (movie clip)
------------active_links (movie clip instance)
------------------home(button) contact(button) portfolio(button)

------contact_movie (movie clip)
------------active_links (movie clip instance)
------------------home(button) contact(button) portfolio(button)

inside welcome_movie movieclip is an instance of the links (active_links) that contain the buttons...

Is it possible from the nested active_links clip within the welcome_movie clip for the buttons to play the contact_movie clip??? eventhough the contact_movie is not nested within the welcome_movie??? HOW??? *ERW scratches head*

Thanks for your replies!!!
www.towernetweb.com

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Title should read: GotoAndPlay frame in main time line from a movie clip instance

n acs3 what is the command if you have a movie clip running some action script with an if statement and the when the if condition has been meet that the famous gotoAndPlay(Frame); is directed to the main time line and plays a frame number.

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in asc3 ?

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I am wanting a movielip(used as button) to be at frame 21 when it starts the movie. The movieclip will be my "home" button and frame 21 will be the "down" state of the button to represent the "home" page.

What code would I use for this?

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I am looking for a way to make an entire movie clip play from one frame then move onto the next frame in the movie. I'm running into trouble as I can't seem to get the frame to play properly and I can't get it to move onto the next frame, it just keeps looping. Can anyone help me on this?

Wedge

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erf!!!! I'm going batty here. I have created a webpage and have a pre loader on the first frame (which works fine) and then an animation sequence which I have made (according to the lil timeline bar) 30 secs long, but when I veiw it- the loader shows up and then the animation is over in the blink of an eye! It's supposed to slide all the bits of the page layout in nice and slowly. (and yes I am vewing it live online not locally, and yes I have emptied my cache) Is this just some glich in mx? am I doing something wrong ?(I'm still learning flash )
I can send in the fla or give you the URL if ness if no one can give me an obvious reason for why it's doing this.
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if i have a movie clip on my stage that is at frame 1 and stopped, how could i create a button that would play the movie clip from frames 1-25 then stop and antoher button that will play it from 1-50 then stop?
i am sure this is confusing and stupid. so post back with your questions

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[f8] Go To Next Frame After Movie Clip Finishes Playing
I'm a newbie to flash, and certainly to Action Script - I've been searching for this for many hours and nothing has solved my problem.

Here is a very detailed description:

The movie starts with a pretty winter night with stars and other lights twinkling. I want them to keep doing all of that shiny stuff, and so far they do.

There is a moon, which, when clicked, will tilt and dump a bunch of snowflakes on the ground. This moon is a movie clip in the first frame of the main timeline. The invisible button over the moon is also in the first frame of the main timeline, and it plays the tilting moon/falling snowflakes clip. That clip is in the second frame of the main timeline because there can't be both a tilted moon and a straight moon in the sky. That movie clip consists of a bunch of nested movie clips of individual snowflakes. All the child movie clips have stops in their last frames, so the movie clip only plays the whole sequence once. So far all of this works.

The first frame of the main timeline has a stop in it (if it didn't, the movie would proceed to frame 2 and play the snowflakes without allowing the user to click on the moon and cause snowflakes). It also has this code:

PHP Code:

moon_active.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, buttonClick);
moon_active.onPress = function(){
gotoAndPlay(2);
}

which advances the movie to the snowflakes clip only after the moon button has been clicked.

The 2nd frame of the main timeline has a stop in it so that the movie clip could finish playing completely when the button is clicked. So far all of this works too.

3rd frame in the main timeline has no button and no snowflakes clip in it. It has the original moon mc which needs to remain there throughout the rest of the movie (along with other stuff that will happen from frame 3 onward). The problem is - I can't get the movie to proceed to frame 3. I think I need an event handler for this that will advance the movie to frame 3 only after the last frame of the mc has played (which is frame 1 in that mc, but it's frame 706 in the longest mc nested within). I'm completely incompetent with action script (and pretty much with flash in general), and have no idea where to go from here - tried a million things that I read in various posts and tutorials and flash help, and nothing works. If someone wants to be kind enough to help, here is the file for reference: http://www.tranzed.net/junk/NewYearFlash.fla

Thanks in advance!

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I'm making a flash gallery of several different animations, each being in one movie clip. I was wondering if there's a way to make a whole, say, 1000 frame movie clip play in a single frame on the main timelime, and how it would be done. (assuming that the main timeline frame has the actionscript to make the movie stop)

I'm kinda new to actionscript and all, even though I've been working with flash for a while, so it would be a real big help for this project and future ones.

-EDIT-
I'm using AS2 for this project.

Edited: 01/03/2008 at 08:14:04 PM by ijp290

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Hi,

I have a button within a movie clip which has the following code:

on(release)
{
_root.gotoAndPlay(2);
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Why is this?

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http://www.harmoniccycle.com/harmoni..._03a_JMS_2.zip

Its part of this cartoon that I am working on:

top 10 reasons to wear a skateboard helmet

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hi

im trying to create a movie with loads of transitions so what I want to do to make it simpler is to have movie clip inside every second frame, so that it plays them one by one.

However I started and placed a movie clip symbol on frame 4 of my animation which I wanted flash to play - but it skips right over it and moves on to play the rest of the content and never enters this movie clip symbol or play it.

What am I doing wrong here?
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i don't want it to play, just stop on the frame (which does not contain any script).

also: gotoAndStop("this.movie_clip", "frame_name");

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thanks in advance

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I have 22 buttons that play an assigned movie clip from the library. I suspect I'm building these things the wrong way (probably true), but here is how each button is constructed....

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.
.
.
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As I mentioned earlier, each instance is on the main stage on its own layer. I've done this with only eight of my instances, so there are now eight layers. (There are--in fact--more than eight layers, but those are not part of this issue.)

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.Fla Link

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

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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

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hi

im trying to create a movie with loads of transitions so what I want to do to make it simpler is to have movie clip inside every second frame, so that it plays them one by one.

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