Flash :: Timeline Control In A Movie

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)?

How To Use A Timeline To Control A Movie
Hii..im new to flash...just wanna ask a wuestion...how to control video by using text button...whether by using script or is there any other ways? i mean by click on text..it goes to certain movie or video...

Control Timeline Of Loaded Movie
I am trying to control the timeline of a loaded movie through a button. I'm using the following scripts, but the loaded movie clip gets stuck on first frame and doesn't proceed to the frame indicated in my script.

SCRIPT IN FIRST FRAME OF MOVIE:
this.createEmptyMovieClip("empty", 1);

SCRIPT INSIDE BUTTON:
on (release) {
loadMovie("title.swf", "empty");
gotoAndPlay("label");
}

Not sure whats going on. Any Suggestions or Solutions?

many thanks,
-Richard

[Edited by superintendent on 07-25-2002 at 10:06 PM]

Control External Movie Timeline
Dear all
i want to know that how i can control timeline of external movie

waiting for reply
alphaarts@hotmail.com
have a nice time

Timeline Control From Movie In Another Level
I have been trying everything to get this to work, so please help if you can.

(I'm using Flash 8 professional, Actionscript 2.0, Flashplayer 8.0.0)

My main movie in _level0 is called "index.swf".
That movie has three scenes, scene 1, 2, &3.
There is a "home" button in that movie that launches a movie called "home_mask.swf" into level 50. "home_mask.swf" is 20 frames long and is the very top level.

What I've been trying to do is this:
When "home_mask.swf" gets to the 10th frame, make the movie in _level0 (index.swf) goto and play Scene 1, frame 265.

I have gotten the following code to work in flash player, but when i get it into a browser, it does nothing: ( I know its old)

code: tellTarget(_level0) {
gotoAndPlay("Scene 1", 265);
}

and this works only if i don't specify a scene:

code: _level0.gotoAndPlay(265)

Note: i need code that i can just put in frame 10 of "home_mask.swf" and make this happen, I'm not a programmer (designer), and i don't really know much about actionscript, so PLEASE feel free to talk to me like I'm an idiot.

If you mention functions or variables or operators, etc, you will have to include code, because I will have no idea what to do!

jhilgert00

[F8] Stage (timeline) Control From Movie
Hi,

I have 3 movies placed on stage, Scene 1, as following:

Movie 1 = Frame 1
Movie 2 = Frame 2
Movie 3 = Frame 3

I want that end of movie 1 trigs Scene 1 timeline to play frame 2, and that movie 2 trigs Scene 1 timeline to play frame 3.

I'm doing everything by the book, but now Movie 1 just loops instead that timeline plays frame 2 etc.

Here is the code that I use an the end of Movie 1:

"gotoAndPlay("Scene 1", 2);"

Any idea about what I'm doing wrong?

I will appreciate your help.

How Do I Control The Timeline Of A Movie Clip?
I have a button and a movie clip. I would like the movie clip to play on the button rollover - the movie clip has a stop in the middle where it stops. (Obviously) On rolloff I would like the movie clip to continue to its end.
How do I control the timeline of movieclips from buttons on the stage.
I realise this reasonably basic stuff, but I'm in the process of learning. Thank you for any help.

How Do I Control The Timeline Of A Movie From Within A Loaded Swf.
My questions is, how would I get my main movie to go to a certain frame, but after releasing a button from within a serparate movie that is being loaded in from within a loader. So, I thought it might be something like gotoAndStop (2), but somewhere I would have to give the name of the swf, because it is a serparte movie, it's just being loaded in externally.

Control Timeline In Movie Clip
Sorry if this is to easy but I'm a beginner and I'll get my way around ActionScript in a while but until then here's the question: How can I control the timeline of a movie clip from the Stage ? for example: When the timeline in the stage reaches the 10th frame I want the timeline in a movieclip to gotoAndPlay(2);

Timeline Control Of External Swf Movie
I am trying to load an external SWF movie into my main AS3 application using the Loader class.

The part that is causing me trouble is controlling the timeline of the loaded movie. In my current case the loaded movie is an AVM1Movie.

I am aware of this thread but it is no help at all.
When i try to case my loader.content to MovieClip the result is either null (as-cast) or the runtime throws an exception:

Code:
Type Coercion failed: cannot convert flash.display::AVM1Movie@808a781 to flash.display.MovieClip.
From what i read on the web this is what happens when loading for example a Flash8 swf movie into an AS3 application. What i did not find any information on is how to solve this problem or how to work around it.

Thanks in advance

Timeline Control Of External Movie
Hi guys:

Do you see the smoke around my head? Well, right now im trying to deal wth this problem. Im prolly a lil rusty seems the last time i saw Flash was version 4.

Anyway, here is the problem:

Let say i got two movies: main.swf and moho.swf. What main.swf have inside is only one frame with a couple of graphics. And moho.swf (btw, did in Moho, u know the 2d animation software where u cant use AS.) that have 80 frames.

So simple, what i need is to load moho.swf on main.swf. I already did that. But i want to be able to control moho.swf timeline so when moho movie reach its last frame (80) then go to its frame 60 and then again 80, and loop.

I think you updated flashers can help me easily with this one. TY in advance.

Control Timeline Of Movie Loaded Into New Level
I've constructed a flash 5 site in levels - there's an unchanging background in level 0, the navigation is loaded into level 20, and I have different files for the "areas" swapping in level 1. For poster.swf in level 1 I don't want the navigation to appear; it unloads fine. Poster.swf has a back button to gallery.swf, and I want the navigation to reappear without animating. I've labeled the frame I want to target "midpoint" and this is the code I've used:

Code:
on (release) {
loadMovieNum ("gallery.swf", 1);
loadMovieNum ("navbar.swf", 20);
tellTarget ("_level20/") {
gotoAndStop ("midpoint");
}
}
All of the movies load, but I always get an error message: Target not found: Target="_level20/" Base="_level1". What am I doing wrong? -I'm pretty new at this, so you made need to really spell out your answers, especially code. Thanks.

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!

Control Loaded Movie Object From Timeline?
I cannot control (stop/start, etc.) named mc objects that have been loaded into "_level100" and into other clip objects. I CAN control them easily from code attached to a button, but I cannot control them with any code initiated from any timeline. For example, "movie_holder.ball_mover2.stop(); " works from a button, but not from any of my timelines or from code initiated in or on an empty clip.
I need to stop/start and control my clips without using buttons from a timeline in this project.
I have always worked through these things on my own, but this has had me stumped for days and I'm way past my deadline on this project.
Any help to my SOS will be enormously apprecitated!
Thanks.
[Edited by Borged on 03-17-2002 at 02:10 PM]

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?

Can I Control The Timeline Of An External Loaded In Movie
i made a scripted motion , and exported into swf... then i load into the main stage of another fla... ...

but i wanna control the timeline of the swf... on the fla by doing gotoAndPlay... nextFrame(); , and all these mouse event

is it possible?

Movie Clip Control From Master Timeline
Hi...

How can i make my movie clip starts to play in a determined frame of the master timeline...

The movie clip is stopped, and when the master movie (playing) reaches a determined frame the movie clip starts...

Thanx

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

Buttons That Control Timeline In Movie Clips..
I am well able to control my main timeline with buttons, but what I am trying to do is control the timeline in a certain movie clips..

For example there is a shoe and I have 3 different elements (laces, leather and sole) and I would have a 3 corresponding buttons that would change the colors for each shoe element.

Thanks for the help!
Im a newbie here!!!

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.

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.

[F8] Sliding Bar To Control Movie Clip Or Timeline
I am trying to create a section of a site, which looks quite like this one: http://www.circuitcity.com/ccd/gener....do?oid=163402 (click on DIGITAL SLR and see what I am trying to replicate).
I have created a sliding bar, created 3D animated sequences of my movie. But I do not know how to put these all together to control 3D rotation positions by sliding the bar handle... Need this ASAP!!!!!!!!!!! Please, give a helping hand!
I am a beginner in action script, so, I may need more detailed explanations.
Send your comments to leoform@earthlink.net
Best!

How Do I Drag To Control Movie Clip Timeline
Hi, thanks to anyone who can help with this - I've been scouring the net for awhile. I have a spinning globe animation that I made, which runs for 100 frames and then loops back to the start. The thing is, I want to have some sort of interface that allows a user to (preferably) drag across the screen to the left to make the globe spin left (move the playhead forward), and drag across the screen right to make the globe spin right. Anyone know how I can do this?

The animation is here.

I was able to achieve this effect somewhat by rolling over and rolling off of the movie clip using this tutorial, but the problem I ran into was that the movie clip is only set up to loop by reaching the 100th frame, not by rewinding to the first.

It doesn't necessarily have to loop, but it'd be nice. It doesn't have to drag (could be controlled by buttons), but that'd be nice too. Any help would be MUCH appreciated. Thanks!

Control Root Timeline From A Movie Clip
Hi,

I am sorry to ask a probably obvious question, but I just can't find the answer.

In Flash CS3 using Action Script 3, how can I tell the main timeline to gotoAndStop(); a certain frame from within a movie clip.

Let me explain.
I have a menu (which is a movie clip) with various buttons. Each button corresponds to a certain frame in the main movie. So if a user click on Button1, it should gotoAndStop(1); and Button2 should gotoAndStop(2); and so on.

In Action Script 2, I could use _root.gotoAndPlay(2); from what I understand, but that does not work in Action Script 3.

I am not looking for the mouse events, I have that working already.

Thanks.

Scrollbar To Control Timeline Movie Clip
Hi All,

Was curious if there is code that when you have a move clip and inside the movie clip you have a scroll bar that controls the movie clips timeline so you can scroll forward or backwards similar to the scroll bar in quicktime...also with the buttons..stop..pause ..play etc...

Any good tutorials on that would be appreciated...I have flash professional 8...do they have components in flash 8 so you can drag a component on the stage of the movieclip and then ad your parameters to make it work.

Thanks inf advance.

Grant

Making XML Control Movie Timeline On Menu System
Hi ... I'm using the "SEP_TREE_MENU_XML 1 by Sephiroth" but it's setup to navigate thru HTML pages or ASP or whatever, except to control FLASH. And that's what I'm wanting to do.
http://www.newlifechurch.org.nz/flash.htm
There's a link to the start of my site, and basically I just want the links to control WHERE the movie-playhead will go to, can someone please help me change or setup or WHATEVER the code so I can get it working!?!?!

THANK YOU SOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH!
Joel

Control Main Timeline From Clip Inside Movie
Have a movie clip on my timeline(its a button)

_root.home.onRollOver = function(){
_root.home.gotoAndPlay("over");
_root.home.back = false;
_root.home.play();
}

_root.home.onRollOut = function(){
_root.home.gotoAndPlay("out");
_root.home.back = false;
_root.home.play();
}

_root.home.onRelease = function(){
gotoAndPlay("main", 1); }THIS IS WHAT I CANT GET TO WORK

When I click the button nothing happens. Ive tried..
_root.gotoAndPlay("main", 1);
gotoAndPlay("_root.main", 1);
gotoAndPlay(_root."main", 1);

Ofcourse none of theese worked.

Control A Dynamic Movie Clip From The Main Timeline
Hi everyone,

Here is the problem, I have two .swf files
one of them is the base movie that loads data about a template, and then loads the template (2nd movie) inside an empty movie clip on stage. Now I want to load an image inside a movie clip which is inside the template(2nd movie) using AS from the main timeline (base movie).

Thanks is advance

Ameretat

Make Movie Clip Control Main Timeline
i just got a navigation menu from someone but i am having a problem using it. it is done in movie clips and not buttons, so how do i get it to control the main "timeline" or "movie" with which it resides?

i am using flash 8.

any help would be greatly appreciated!

matt

How To Control Main Timeline From A Button In A Scrolling Movie?
I just can't figure it out... I want a button to have the main timeline play when pressed - it is part of a movie in a scroller, so I need it to reach out from the scroll movie to the main timeline and tell it what to do, but all I have tried isn't working.

Thoughts?

Thanks.

Nested Movie Clips And Timeline Control Question
Hey people...

I was wondering if it was possible to control the timeline of a movie clip from a different movie clip nested inside it? Here's what's happening now. I have movie clip A... and within in... there's movie clip B. Movie clip A plays till frame whatever and stops. The user presses a button which plays clip A one frame forward where clip B begins. When clip B finishes and fades out, I'd like to have clip A go back one frame. Is this possible somehow?

Any help would be greatly appreciated! THX!

Edited: 10/09/2008 at 12:01:48 PM by Booya_boyo

Button Action Not Working To Control A Different Movie Clip Timeline
Hi.

I have a button action not working to control another movie clip timeline. The movie clip timeline I want to control has an instance name but for some reason it's not playing. The button is on a different movie clip timeline. Both movie clips are on Scene 1. I think there is something wrong with my target path?

on(release){
_root.insMcWorkNav.gotoAndPlay("lbWork04");

insMcWorkNav is the movie clip, lbWork04 is the frame to play

Any suggestions? Thanks!

Can An External Swf Movie Clip Control Action On The Parent Timeline?
I have an instance where I'd like a movieclip inside of an external swf file to control action on the parent timeline... any ideas? Is it a function command? Here was my attempt at it...

//importing external swf file "entrypage" using empty movieclip "container" on main parent timeline
_root.createEmptyMovieClip("container",1);
container.loadMovie("entrypage.swf");

//functionality of external swf files movie clip "na9" which is contained inside "testnav" on external swf files main timeline...
testnav.nav9.onPress = function() {
_parent.gotoAndStop("theend"); //by clicking on the above movieclip, it moves to "theend" label on the parent timeline
}

Am I close?

Using Loaded External Text To Control Movie Clips/timeline?
Hi everyone! I've been away from Flash for a while and I've gotten pretty rusty (not to suggest I was very good before, but...

I use an externally loaded text file that loads into a movie for simplicity's sake for my client. I know how to make regular links that point to other websites using <a href=" ">, but I don't know how to point to a particular place in the timeline of my movie. For example, this external text file loads into Frame 10. By clicking a link from the text file, I want the movie to go to Frame 5 on the same timeline. I need to be able to have multiple links that point to various points on the timeline.

I tried searching and found some people suggesting "asfunction," but it wasn't helping me (or it went right over my head! ).

I hope my question makes sense -- I appreciate any input!

Sound Control With Pause Button As Well As Timeline Control
Hi there

I have a flash page, with a ambient track playing. I added a pause and play button. So you press the button then it stops, then you press it again then it plays...

So now i want to make it so that if you go to the 'WORK' page on the site, wich is on its own frame, and wich has different buttons linking to it, then i want the sound to switch off when i am on the work page as well.
So if the background ambient music plays, and you go to work then the sound switches off. Untill you switch it back on again
How is the best way for me to do that?

Using A Button In A Movie Clip To Control The Movie(and Not Movie Clip) Timeline
Ok i have a button placed in a movie clip. I want this button, when released, to go in another scene, frame one, on the movie(scene) timeline and not on the movie clip timeline.

So i tried: gotoAndPlay("mission", 1); (mission is the name of my scene)

But it goes to the frame 1 of my movie clip, It would be great if someone could tell me how i can control the movie timeline while my button is in a movie clip

thaks
Vakarm

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 Inside Movie Clip - Control From Timeline
hello all.

i have a movieclip (instance name: mov1) with a movieclip (instance name: mov2) inside of it.

mov1 is on my main timeline. I want to control mov2 from the main timeline. how can i do it?

i am trying what i thought would work which is
_root.mov1.mov2.stop();

How To Control The Main Timeline From An MC Timeline?
May an action in a movie clip's timeline or within an OnClipEvent target the scene's main timeline, say, forcing the swf to go to its third frame, for example? Thanks for any idea.
P.S. Actionscript 1.0

Control Of Main Timeline From Another Timeline
Working in Flash Pro 8 (on a Mac), I've got a movie clip on the main timeline. Within the movie clip is a button which, upon pressing, reveals a series of three more buttons.

My objective here is that when you press any one of those given buttons that are within the single button that is within the movie clip an instance of which is on the main timeline that it will take you back to a specific frame on the main timeline.

I am having a devil of an unsuccessful time with the concept of connecting back to the main parent timeline from a child timeline.

Any words of direction on how this is accomplished would be, as usual, appreciated.

Christian Seaborn
seaborn.christian@gmail.com

How To Control Timeline Of The 2.swf..
how to control timeline of the 2.swf file loaded to the 2.html
from 1.swf. file in the 1.html?
i want to go from 1.html (src = 1.swf)
to the 2.html (src = 2.swf) ...easy
but i want to choice 1st or 2nd frame from the 2.src
i used for the button in 1.src this code:
A HREF=javascript:MM_controlShockwave(','2.html','Go toFrame','2')
but it doesn´t work
t.f.y.h.

Control Timeline From Mc Within Mc?
I am having a bit of a nightmare with this:

I have a button placed on the last frame of a movie clip contained within another movie clip placed in frame 2 of my main timeline.

How can I make the main timeline play when the button is pressed/released???

Here is the current code on the button:

code: on (press, release) {
_root.gotoAndPlay("3");
}

I know there is something missing... but what is it!!!

any help much appreciated!
Diggz

Mc's Timeline Control
How do i control a mc's timeline from the main timeline.
Love to know how it's done...

Timeline Control
Here is one for you,

i can control from sence to scene, that nice and easy as we all probably know.......

the problem is when i go inside a movie clip, then inside another how do i (with the aid of a button) get back to the main time line?

have done it before and thought it was something along the line of back a dir in normal html format: ../

but having no luck.........

thanks

Can't Control Timeline
Hi,

I'm using the following script on a button that takes the user from the end of my scene's timeline to the beginning - kinda like a refresh button. (the name of the scene is "main").

on (release) {
unloadMovieNum(1);
unloadMovieNum(2);
gotoAndPlay("main", 1);
}

The code works fine except that once it starts playing on frame 1, it doesn't stop. It just keeps playing my movie, ignoring every stop along the way while playing every other action it comes across.

Anyone know why this is happening?

cheers, jen

Timeline Control
I was wondering if it's possible to play different segment of the timeline?

For example, when i click on a button, i want it to go to
frame 30-40, and then 50-60.

Is it possible to do that using only one button(without any actions on the timeline)?