[thelist] FLASH: Stop and Start a Movie

[bread_man]

Hi Casey,

I'm not sure if this solution has been presented to your or not:

Create a button and put it on the stage.  Either make it invisible and place
it in the viewable area, or a better alternative is to put that button way
off the viewable area (When you export the movie, it won't be seen).  This
button should be on its own layer and should span the entire movie.

Then use the actions control panel to assign the following code to the
button:

on (keyPress "<Space>") {
    play ();
}

Pressing the Space key will resume the movie if you have stopped it at a
point with a Stop action.  You can substitute different keys if you wish -
Just change it in the event selection when selecting the action.

Hope this helps.

bread_man

"Ein halber Laib ist besser als gar kein Brot."


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jen Worden" <jen at meadoworks.com>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 10:18 AM
Subject: Re: [thelist] FLASH: Stop and Start a Movie


> At 10:58 PM 18/03/02 -0500, matthew garrett wrote:
> > > From: "Casey Crookston" <casey.crookston at imibevcore.com>
> >
> > > I'm putting together a little Flash show, and I need to be able to
stop the
> > > show every so often, and then start it up again based on a key stroke.
> >
> >I'm semi guessing on this, but i think you need to add a button to each
> >frame on which you stop (it can be a "blank", or invisible, button).
>
> I've just done one using a similar technique Casey, by creating an
> invisible button (only use the Hit keyframe) and use the OnMouseEvent >
> onRelease (go to...) or (play).
>
> Works like a charm!
>
>
> Jen Worden - Web Developer
> meadoworks - http://www.meadoworks.com
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