Re: FLASH: Movie play ontop of itself?

[Dave Broz]

>Mark Goodman Wrote:




>I am sort of new at flash and have a question. I would

>like

>to have a button start a movie clip that has about 100

>frames in it.

>Here is the tricky part...

>I would like it (if possible) for the movie to

>continue playing and

>if the user hits the button again the movie will start

>on frame 1

>again but still play through the first button push.


Just quickly off the top of my head here is one very rough and ready

solution.  Basically the way it works is that it duplicates an instance of a

movie clip when you press the button and then tells that new duplicate to

play.  I added a set property script to shift the duplicate 40 pixels to the

right so you could see the new duplicates.  The "x" variable is the stepper

variable for the the naming of the new movie clip.  I used the "i" variable

to check if the movie clip is the original movie clip or not. (Hence the if

statement).


1) create your 100 frame movie clip by placing an empty keyframe with a

"stop" action in it on the first frame.  on the second frame place a "play"

action and the first frame of your 100 frame content.  your 100 frame movie

clip is now 101 frames.  place a "stop" action on the last frame to stop

your movie looping


2) on the main timeline (_level0) create two layers.


In one layer put this action:


Set Variable: "x" = 1

Set Variable: "i" = 0

Stop


In the other layer place your movie clip (I named the instance "movie0") and

start button.


3) Place this script on your button.


On (Release)

      If (_level0:i=0)

            Begin Tell Target ("/movie0")

                  Play

                  Set Variable: "_level0:i" = 1

            End Tell Target

      Else

            Duplicate Movie Clip ("/movie0", "movie"&_level0:x, _level0:x)

            Set Property ("/movie"&_level0:x, X Position) = GetProperty

("/movie"&(_level0:x-1),_x ) + 40

            Begin Tell Target ("/movie"&_level0:x)

                  Go to and Play (2)

                  Set Variable: "_level0:x" = _level0:x+1

            End Tell Target

      End If

End On


4) Try it out, it works!!  You should be able to adapt this for what you

need.


5) If you want the fla just email me for it.


Dave Broz

eleven1 interactive media

email:

flasheleven1 [dot] com

www.eleven1.com





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