Play / stop methods

Question

Hi,
I have a basic animation with two bindTimelineAction, one listening on "play" and the other on "stop".
I was not able to figure why, when my animation starts, I can see that both listeners are called, even if my animation isn't in autoplay mode.
I have dig into the edge javascript file (edge.1.5.0.js) and find that there is a «this.stop();» in the play method.
d.extend(a.prototype, n.prototype, {constructor: a,play: function(a) {
            this.notifyObservers("play");
            this.stop();
            this.sort();
            this.playing = !0;
            if (this.context)
                this.context.playDirection = void 0, this.context.executeTriggers = void 0;
            var b = this.getContext(a);
            b.timeline = this;
There is a good reason for that I guess, anyone ?
Thanks.

Answer 1

Using a package, I set up a public class to hold global variables. Once the variable could be accessed from any MC in the movie, I used AS to write/overwrite an array with the names of the clips currently playing.
Unlike Javascript, the instance name is not enough to access an MC. You must also have the path from where the AS event occurred (in my case, the main timeline).
I decided that it would be a waste of time to go through and manually figure out the correct information to put into the array. Just navigating the file to implement the test on the first clip change took more time than I would like to admit.
Plus, I am still not 100% sure it would have worked correctly. Wouldn't it be horrible to test the button between every clip change?
Instead of continuing with a programmatic solution, I decided to restructure the file. I believe that it was worth my time. Changes are easier, AS works as Adobe intended, and general organization has been restored.