Looping movie clip stops in middle

I am using a movie clip as part of a game. It's a clip of a
spaceman walking.
When the game is being played, the movie seems to loop one
time (the spaceman walks one cycle), and on the second time around
the animation seems to stop right in the middle of the cycle. it
always stops on the same frame.
What is happening here?
Thank you

Okay, great, and what about the last line? What is that for?
Do i put my keylistener info after that line?
I'm still a little puzzled about where to put the script that
you just offered me.
But before I get to that, let me ask you a question about my
current code. Below I've pasted the beginning of the code that I
have for Key Down. My question is: Is this code going to execute
over and over again? Is this code a "key listener"?
_root.onKeyDown = function() {
///keyDOWN!!!
whichKey = Key.getAscii();
if ((whichkey == _root.jumpkey) or (whichkey ==
_root.jumpkeycaps)) {
if (_root.mov == "walkleft") {
_root.mov = "jumpleft";
_root.vertspeed = 24;
if (_root.mov == "walkright") {
_root.mov = "jumpright";
_root.vertspeed = 24;
if (mov.toLowerCase().indexOf("stop") != -1) {
_root.mov = "jumpup";
_root.vertspeed = 24;
}

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use double equal (==) to test for equality:
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I want to loop 5 movie clips so that one clip moves onto the stage, stays there for a certain time, then moves off the stage, then the next one.
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I'm working on a Mac using Flash Pro 8 which only has the
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Attempt to move main timeline from inside a movie clip breaks menu buttons.

I am attempting to have the main timeline move from a stopped position over a movie clip to frame 1, where my start menu is.
The code I'm using does move the timeline but in doing so it somehow breaks the 4 buttons I have in frame 1.
My code in the movie clip:
stop()
function replayMovie(event:MouseEvent):void
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My code in frame 1 of the main timeline:
stop();
function bo(event:MouseEvent):void
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SoundMixer.stopAll()
espesp.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, bo);
function ho(event:MouseEvent):void
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TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.
at SSubjunctiveProjNewgrounds_fla::MainTimeline/frame1()
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For the sake of space, I'll leave out all the package declarations and class declarations and just talk about the functions.
First, the Game class, it has two functions. The first one is the constructor function and it launches at the beginning of the game: First the Game function:
public function Game():void
//Game code goes here
}//Game
We want to listen for someone to click the mouse on the MenuPage, so lets create a new MenuPage and add a listener to the button contiained within it.
public function Game():void
menuPage = new MenuPage;
menuPage.startButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, startGame);
addChild(menuPage);
}//Game
You will notice that before I declared a variable var menuPage:MenuPage, but that's all I did was declare it. I didn't really make a new instance of it, I just set aside space for it. In the first line within the Game function, I'm actually turning that variable into a new instance of a MenuPage.
We don't have a picture of this imaginary menuPage instance, but lets' assume that in our MenuPage MovieClip in the library, we created a SimpleButton called startButton. Here, I'm adding an EventListener that patiently waits for someone to click that button. Once we receive that event, Flash is told to call the startGame function.
As you get better at this, you'll get into custom events, and the eventListener for the button will exist in the MenuPage class file, or even in another class file that you create just for the button. Something like StartButton.as But for now, we can do it as above.
Now the startGame function:
public function startGame(evt:MouseEvent):void
//Remove the start Page
//Add the zombie
//Add the gun
}//startGame
And we'll replace those comments with real code. It follows along with what we just did above.
public function startGame(evt:MouseEvent):void
zombie = new Zombie;
addChild(zombie);
gun = new Gun;
addChild(gun);
And we also want to clean up some by removing the menuPage, and throwing out the eventListener.
public function startGame(evt:MouseEvent):void
zombie = new Zombie;
addChild(zombie);
gun = new Gun;
addChild(gun);
menuPage.startButton.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.Click,startGame);
removeChild(menuPage);
}//startGame
Now our Game class is complete.
The Zombie Class
public function zombieWalk(evt:Event):void
this.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME,zombieWalk);
this.x = this.x + 10;
}//zombieWalk
Notice we've added a function to the Zombie Class.
The first function adds an EventListener to the zombie. We can use the word this and actionScript knows we're talking about the zombie that the class is written for. This listener fires off every frame. If our FLA file is set to 12fps, then 12 times every second it will call on the zombieWalk function.
The zombie walk function moves the zombie 10 pixels to the right every time the function is called.
On a more advanced level, you'll want to add animation in the MovieClip to move the zombie legs. You'll also want to use Timer events to space out how often the funtion fires and not ENTER_FRAME events. And you'll want to use a static constant to establish how far the zombie moves. We have it now set to 10 pixels, but that can get irritating if we want to change that value later. But again, baby steps.
And finally, the Gun class
public function Gun():void
this.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, fireGun);
}//function
public function fireGun(evt:MouseEvent):void
this.gotoAndPlay(2);
}//fireGun
First we add an EventListener for when someone clicks on the gun. Once this happens, the listener calls on the fireGun function.
The fireGun function takes advantage of the frames within the Gun MovieClip. Say we have three frames in the Gun MovieClip. The first is just a picture of the gun. The second is the gun with a flash coming out of the nozzle. And the third is the gun at rest again. The line this.gotoAndPlay(2) sends the gun to the second frame with the flash graphic.
For this to work, each frame in the Gun MovieClip has to have some stop and play commands.
But.. you said no code on our timeline!! Liar!
I know. This is the exception. You will need basic stop() commands and gotoAndPlay commands to loop animations. Any MovieClip that has more than one frame will need something to control it.
So our Gun MovieCLip has the following:
Frame 1: stop();
Frame 2: no actionScript... and I mean nothing, not even the words, "no actionScript"
Frame 3: gotoAndStop(1);
This will loop the gun to the beginning and wait for the next time the user clicks the gun.
Advanced features of the Gun class might include a Bullet.as sub-class that creates a bullet MovieClip to fly across the screen. Sound to play when the shooting takes place. Object collision detection to see if the bullet hits the target. And a means by which a custom event will tell the Game.as class that a zombie has been hit and it should be removed from the stage.
As you go down the rabbit hole of ActionScript 3, you will find yourself at a point where it's just a matter of getting the syntax right for all the built in functions and classes. Arrays, Loaders, casting variable types.. all that stuff will come.
I hope this has been helfpul. It's been on my to-do list for a long time. When I first started out, no one could provide me with basic answers for how all these classes and whatnot worked. After teaching myself AS3 for 2 years and reading a gabillion books, I think I've gotten to a point where I'm pretty comfortable with it all.

Difficulties with movie clips and frames

This is really irking me.
I am extremely new to Flash so please bear with me. I am assuming that this is a simple, easy to fix problem that I am having. I have Adobe Flash Professional CS5.5.
What I am trying to do is display a sequence of images after other movie clips stop playing.
The image sequence itself does what it is supposed to and works properly, and the other movie clips also are successful. However, whenever I try to put the movie clips for the images in frames or keyframes, the beginning movie clips only play part of the way before the images show up. This happens even though the images' movie clips are on frames/keyframes (I've tried both) after the other movie clips.
The movie clips that are supposed to play first are each on a separate layer and there are two of them.
The first layer is called "tree" and the second is called "text"
The tree layer has a 45-frame gif animation that I have turned into a movie clip. I have created a motion tween and changed its alpha so that the gif has a fading in and out effect. I also have it so that it stops replaying once it reaches the last frame. I am using stop(); for this.
The text layer has a 40-frame gif animation that I have also turned into a gif. This gif is also a movie clip and also has motion tween. Its alpha has also been changed.
Both tree and text play together successfully and how I want them to.
The sequence of images is three separate images, each a different layer, that fade into eachother. These images are pngs, therefore they aren't gifs nor do they have their own frames.
The bottom layer is called floor1 and has frames 1 through 50 of motion tween and alpha adjustments fading the png image. The image is a movie clip.
The layer on top is called floor2 and has frames 51-100 of a different png image fading.
The very top layer is called floor3 and has frames 101-150 of yet another png fading.
The images are successful in doing what they are supposed to.
Layers tree and text are one fla file, and layers floor1, floor2, and floor3 are a separate fla file.
When I copy the frames from layers floor1, floor2, and floor3 into a keyframe after layers text and tree, they transfer properly, but when I test the animation, the image sequence shows up a lot sooner than it is supposed to, interrupting the movie clips on the layers text and tree. I have tried moving the floor# layers' keyframes farther down the timeline, but then the other movie clips just stop.
In the fla file with layers text and tree, I've imported the gifs into the library and then put them onto the stage.
In the fla file with the floor# layers, I've imported the pngs into the stage.
Here's what the text and tree layers look like:
Here's what the floor# layers look like:
The rest of the frames for the floor#s...
So, I thought that the problem was that I needed to delay the image squence. I looked around and found no code or anything for that..
Afterwards, I thought that it was because I had imported the tree and text gifs to the library before putting them on the stage.
I opened a new fla and imported the "tree" gif straight to the stage.
I figured that this should work because then it would show each of the individual frames in the movie clips, which it doesn't do in the above pictures. By importing the gif like this, it does show the individual frames. I've tested this with the image sequence and it works fine. But I have a problem with this method too..
I select all of the frames for the gif to convert into a symbol, so I can add a motion tween and mess with the alpha. However, only the last frame is converted into a movie clip. Well actually no... Only the circled frames below are turned into the movie clip. Even when all of the frames are selected. This isn't very helpful because then I can't change the alpha for the entire gif nor can I create a motion tween without getting a message saying that the motion tween could not be applied to all of the frames.
Here's what this version of "tree" looks like.
And the frames continue like so until 135.
The frames that are turned into the movie clip are circled below.
If I can solve the issue that I'm having with the tree shown in the two pictures above this sentence, then I can display the movie clips and image sequence without a problem. It wouldn't be quite how I had intended it to be, but it would be successful and would still work.
If I can fix the problem with the image sequence showing up to early, and of the tree and text movie clips being cut off, then this project would also be successful and it would be how I had wanted it to be.
If you need clarification, let me know and I'll explain something better.
I am not willing to provide a download link in this forum for my fla files, but I can email them to you if you would like a look. I just don't want someone to be able to find them and take them by doing a google search.
I have uploaded two swfs though.
The first is of the tree and text layers/movie clips working as they are supposed to. The second is of the image sequence (floor1, floor2, floor3) doing what it is supposed to.
Text and tree: http://glassoliverdesigns.weebly.com/uploads/1/0/6/5/10653451/tfg1.swf
Floor1, floor2, floor3: http://glassoliverdesigns.weebly.com/uploads/1/0/6/5/10653451/tfg2.swf
Notice how at the end of the text and tree swf, when the text stops the thing in the background keeps flashing. If that can keep flashing WHILE the images appear, then that would be great.
TL;DR: I want the floor# flash to show up after the text and tree flash but I keep having problems and nothing I try is working properly.

Very concise question, appreciate the screenshots. One thing that motion tweens don't always show very well is keyframes. Let me clear a few things up and see if it helps.
Go back to what you wanted to do originally, which is copying the frames from one document to another. This is perfectly fine and to clear it up, it will also copy any library elements (images, clips, etc) that are required to copy those frames for you, so you do not need to import them yourself.
To successfully copy frames (not symbols), select the first frame of the frames you want to copy, hold shift and select the last frame (alternatively double clicking anywhere in the blue motion tween should select it all as well). Now right-click and "Copy Frames". Now go into your new document, select a frame, right-click and select Paste Frames. You will see the same frames copied over, the blue representing the tween and keyframes came with it and you finally will notice all your images/etc were copied into your library.
Now is a good time to manage the library clutter that was just copied in, if you're a clean freak like me.
This process is the same, as you tried, for the other documents you want to copy in. If any resources match in name then Flash will ask you if you want to "overwrite" that library item. If you do that, you will break one of your previous animations. Make sure that's not the case.
The common gotcha here is not knowing how to slide frames over properly. If overwriting isn't the issue, this is what I suspect your problem is and as you expand/contract the timeline the keyframes aren't going with you.
For example if I import 2 clips with fade in/out and move keyframes as you did I'll get something like this:
Now moving them over I would be very careful to select all of the frames I want to move via the methods above. Click the first frame, hold shift and select the last frame, or double-click anywhere in the middle of the blue. The selection of frames:
Now I simply drag my selected frames to the right, notice the keyframes stay as they should (the black dots):
The animation plays as expected.
Lastly I'm not sure if you've ever used the panel but you should really get used to the Motion Editor. This gives you control over easing as well as shows you an in-depth view of the keyframes that exist in a selected motion tween.
At first this panel may look complex but it simply represents the basic properties you can animate. Any more properties you animate can be added in here. I moved the X, Y and Alpha properties of my object. So you can see over the frames 30-60 what I did. You can also adjust basic easing here.
If your animations don't look correct you can select a motion tween, open the motion editor and verify the keyframes look correct. Scrub the timeline and look at the values you're interested in. Alpha for example, for you.
If you don't see any keyframes when you scrub the timeline, you moved your frames over incorrectly and the keyframes probably exist in a different place and therefore it appears incorrect.

A question about movie clips and the eraser

So I'm kinda new to flash and whatnot, probably not nearly as
good as half you people with the scripting and I donno what half of
things you say are.. and yeah.. but I'll learn one day. :]
Anyways.. so I want to use the eraser tool to erase a
graphic, but it doesn't seem to be able to do that. Basically I
have this picture of an eraser and when I l click the link I want
the eraser to erase the page, but the thing that actually could
erase doesn't seem to erase things unless they're made in flash.
Suggestions???
Also, how do you make a movie clip stop moving when you hover
over it?

Ok - let's go step by step:
Re-re wrote:
> In flash CS3 there's an eraser tool that lets you erase
things, but doesn't let
> you erase graphics from what I can see.
"Graphics" is a pretty general term - it can mean anything
from vectors to bitmaps to symbol
instances. I have to assume that you are referring to
imported graphics. Please clarify.
If you are finding the eraser tool does not erase "graphics"
then you are either trying to erase a
bitmap or an instance.
If bitmap: you must break it apart or Trace Bitmap (convert
to vectors) before using the eraser
tool. More importantly, if you are trying to erase part of a
bitmap, it is probably more
advantageous to go back to the original source file and edit
it in your graphics editor and
re-import into flash.
If it is an instance of a Graphic symbol, double click the
symbol to enter Edit Mode - then use the
eraser tool (assuming the artwork inside this symbol is
vector art. If a bitmap refer to the
previous steps.
>
> But I have this button that looks like an eraser, and
when it's clicked I want
> the eraser to swipe across the page and erase it,
leaving it white from behind,
> but sence the ereaser tool in flash doesn't seem to let
me erase graphics, I
> was trying to figure out how to exicute my idea.
Here's where my confusion increases - this is a different
issue from the first one right? The eraser
tool and this eraser button are 2 different things? Let's
assume this eraser button is something you
made ok? But your last scentence still confuses me - what
does the Flash eraser tool have to do with
your eraser button?
What I think you want might be found by going to
www.flashkit.com and searching for "scratch lottery
ticket" or similar.
>
> Also, I have a movie clip with a botton on it, and the
movie clip rotates
> consantly. I want it to stop rotating when I hover over
the botton. How do I do
> that?
Give the MC an instance name and target it on rollOver of the
button:
on (rollOver) {
myMC.stop();
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Make my movie clip move from left to right with arrow buttons.

Hi hope this is a quick one..
I have all the elements set up already so just need the
logistics of how i can acheive the following:
I have an arrow at the furthest left and furthest right of my
main flash movie. I then have a movie clip in the middle which has
indidivual images on a kind of long strip. When i click the left
arrow i want the movie to begin to move from the right to the left
and visa versa. I have achieved this with the keyboard left and
right keys so what i really need is to convert this theory for the
left and right arrow buttons?
var speed:Number = 4;
object_mc.onEnterFrame = function() {
if (Key.isDown(Key.RIGHT)) {
this._x = this._x+speed;
} else if (Key.isDown(Key.LEFT)) {
this._x = this._x-speed;
Any help will be greatly appreciated??
Thanks
Ben

use the getAscii() or getCode() methods of the key class. and
you can always use the trace function to check the values to be
used in your if-statement.

Boundary for movie clips following the mouse

here's my AS...
myInterval = setInterval(KBMOglobal,15);
function KBMOglobal () {
KBMOglobal1._x -= (KBMOglobal1._x - _xmouse)/10;
KBMOglobal1._y -= (KBMOglobal1._y - _ymouse)/10-2;
ok, so my movie clip follows the mouse around, with a small
delay and the y axis is slightly lowered. the stage of my movie is
380 x 640. does anyone have any suggestions on how to create a
boundary, equal to the size of my stage, that does not let the
movie clips that follow the mouse extend past? does that even make
any sense? essentially, i would like the movie clips to follow the
mouse, the entire movie clip stay visible on the stage. because of
the positioning of the items on the stage that initiate this
function, i only have to consider the width of each movie clip,
which luckily is a constant = 200. does that make any sense? let me
try this all again....
how do adjust the above function so that the movie clip,
KBMOglobal1 (which has a width of 200) stay within the horizontal
limits of the stage (which is 380)?
thanks for your time and to everyone in this forum that has
been so very helpful with all my questions in this project so far,
yall rock!

quote:
Originally posted by:
NickTheNameless
this is almost working perfectly, however i need to adjust
the boundary of the x axis. for some reason, the movie clip stops
following the mouse when it reaches half way across stage,
horizontally.
would you please be so kind to explain what your script is
doing? because i'm not a total idiot, i realize i could probably
replace 380 with 760 (double the width of the stage) and it would
work as expected. however, if you could spare the time to explain
what the following two lines are doing, step by step....i'll give
you my first born.....
KBMOglobalGeneralCancelDispatch._x<0?KBMOglobalGeneralCancelDispatch._x=0:KBMOglobalGenera lCancelDispatch._x;
KBMOglobalGeneralCancelDispatch._x>380-KBMOglobalGeneralCancelDispatch._width?KBMOglobalG eneralCancelDispatch._x=380-KBMOglobalGeneralCancelDispatch._width:KBMOglobalGeneralCancel Dispatch._x;
thanks again for your time!
do you know ?: operator? it is like if...else... statements,
when we say:
somethingIsTrue ? do1() : do2();
it is exactly same meaning like:
if (somethingIsTrue) {
do1();
} else {
do2();
Now, we look at this line:
KBMOglobalGeneralCancelDispatch._x<0?
KBMOglobalGeneralCancelDispatch._x=0:
KBMOglobalGeneralCancelDispatch._x;
it is same like
if (KBMOglobalGeneralCancelDispatch._x<0) {
KBMOglobalGeneralCancelDispatch._x=0
} else {
KBMOglobalGeneralCancelDispatch._x

Button movie clip

hello,
i am building a full flash site, and i have created animated
buttons seperatley,outwith the main fla, and i have imported them
into the main timeline. The button file is a movie clip,and works
beautifully when testing from its own fla,but it does not work (no
animation on roll over) when i embed it into my main site. Below i
have trhe action script
On top level main timeline,where movie clips reside,in one
keyframe -
this.onEnterFrame = function(){
if(rewind == true){
prevFrame();
this.onRollOver = function(){
rewind = false;
play();
this.onRollOut = function(){
rewind = true;
this.onRelease = function(){
getURL("
http://www.kirupa.com","_blank");
within each button movie clip
stop();
this.onEnterFrame = function(){
if(rewind == true){
prevFrame();
this.onRollOver = function(){
rewind = false;
play();
this.onRollOut = function(){
rewind = true;
this.onRelease = function(){
getURL("
http://www.siteName.co.uk","_blank");
any ideas ?
hope you can help !

This is what I came up with and it seems to work... can this
be refined and improved on?
For example, what if I want it to return to its original
value when clicked a second time?

Flash Buttons and a nested movie clip

I have made my movie clip and now I want to nest it into a
button. I am not sure what code I need to use for this and how to
nest it. I want, when a person rolls over the button for the movie
clip to run. When they roll off of the button the movie clip stops.
When they click on the button it takes them to a link. If anyone
can please help me with this, I would SO greatly apprecaite it.
Thank You ahead of time.

Thank You SOOOO Much for replying to this. I can't tell you
how much I appreciate your help.
I just assumed that was the only way I could do it, (nest
it.) So, my MC is called jiggle.
So everywhere you have the my_mc. Should I replace it with
jiggle.onRollOver etc....?
ALso you say to attach the code to the action layer in the
frame the MC appears, not in the MC itself.
So, in the timeline that I have my MC , I have an actions
layer. Do I not want an actions layer there? Should I just save the
timeline with my MC and then cut and paste it into another timeline
that has the actions layer?
I actually have 5 of these MC.that all need to do the same
thing, they are each for a different button.

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