Re: FLASH: Rewind/forward/stop question

[Sarah Lamont]

Okay... this is getting a little confusing... :)!

Well, you should still be able to do this using the same method I showed

you, but by changing the path of the tell target. If I understand you

correctly, you have the controls located in a movie clip that is on the

stage/main movie. The movie you are trying to control is another,

separate movie clip that is also on the stage/main movie. Is this right?

Well, if this is what you are trying to do, you can use the method I

told you about, and change the telltarget paths, like I said above.

Put the "blah" movie clip on the main movie stage, like I said before,

but in the second frame's actions, change the tell target path to be:

 "../the_movie_you_want_to_control_name"


Then, in the back button in the other movie clip, 

change the tell target to be "../blah"


Make sure when you're doing this to just pay attention to where you are

trying to target, and you should be about to figure it out.

If you need more help, I actually just threw together a really simple

.fla, which I can send to you if you want. Just let me know.

good luck!

§arah


Yann Poirier wrote:

> 

> Thank's this is great but not exactly what I wanted, maybe I should elaborate on the project i'm

> trying to do.

> 

> The movie clip i'm trying to control is part of another movie clip, it's the last one that's on

> the stage.  The first movie clip is control by a series of button (rewind, foward, stop) in the

> movie clip that is one the stage (uhm this is getting complicated to write, I just imagine

> reading it LOL).

> 

> So, what I want to do is control a movie in a movie, with but that are in the first movie clip.

> yeah well that sum's it up (and who's on first, what on second and...LOL)

> 

> Hope you can still help me, cause i'm all out of idea (but not joke thank god LOL)

> 

> Yann Poirier

> 

> Sarah Lamont wrote:

> > Make a movie clip three frames long. Don't put anything in it, except

> > actions in each frame. In the first frame, put a stop action. In the

> > second, put:

> > --------------

> > Begin Tell Target ("../")

> >       Go to Previous Frame

> > End Tell Target

> > Play

> > --------------

> > (this targets the main movie, and makes itself(the movie clip you are

> > making right now) play to the next frame. The next frame has this action:

> > --------------

> > Go to and Play (2)

> > --------------

> > So this movie clip will go back to the last frame.

> >

> > Now the next step is to assign the actions to your back button. When you

> > double click on the back button, in the action pallette, put these:

> > --------------

> > On (Press)

> >       Begin Tell Target ("blah")

> >             Go to and Play (2)

> >       End Tell Target

> > End On

> > On (Release)

> >       Begin Tell Target ("blah")

> >             Go to and Stop (1)

> >       End Tell Target

> > End On

> > --------------

> > ("blah" being the movie clip you just made ((and put on the main movie)))

> >  What will happen is that if the back button is held down, the "blah"

> > movie clip will play the 2 and 3rd frame (which makes the main movie

> > keep going back frames) until the back button is depressed, which will

> > move "blah" to the first frame, which stops the actions.

> >

> > Hopefully I explained it okay, and you'll get it done!

> > §arah

> >

> > Yann Poirier wrote:

> > >

> > > I want to build a rewind in a flash movie, I want it to be smooth (dont

> > > have to clik and clik and clik to make it go back).  I would also like

> > > to same thing for the foward. As for the stop, well I think I can manage

> > > ;0)

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