MovieClip Tween Control

Hey Everyone,
I am new in actionscript 3.0, and I have a problem to
control a Movieclip component .....
I have a Movieclip component which contains other
components, I managed to tween the components in the Movieclip to
fade Out once I call gotoAndPlay("play") by press the button
"nxt_btn" ......
I attatched my code ......
how can I tell flash to wait until the movieclip ("mc1")
finishes then goto frame "step2" ?!!!! ( which listener can I use)
The MovieClip ----> "mc1" which contains a label called
"play"
Thanks in Advance .......

you can put your commented code on the the frame of mc1 where
you want that code to execute or you can start a loop that
repeatedly checks the currentFrame property of mc1 and executes
your commented code when the disired frame is reached.

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Kuckuck!
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sein.
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Ich habe diverse Zeilen Code gel�scht, da sie sicher
nicht wichtig sind.
Es funktioniert auch alles. Die Frage ist, macht ihr das
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ihr einen besseren Weg, die Zeit in Flash anzuhalten?
Gru� & Dankesch�ns
Christian Scholz
Grindelallee 27c
20146 Hamburg

Christian Scholz schrieb:
> Kuckuck!
>
> Per Klick auf einen Link ("xyz") wird in einen
Container-MC ein externer
> Film ("A") eingelesen. In A wird ein MC ("B") per
Tween-Klasse bewegt.
> Klicke ich erneut auf xyz, scheint A seltsamerweise
nicht mit seinem
> Tweening wie erwartet bei Null anfangen. Es hat vielmehr
den Anschein,
> dass Flash "sich merkt", an welchem Punkt das Tweening
war, und zeigt es
> von dort an.
Also ich w�rde mal versuchen den Container dynamisch
zu erstellen, dann kannst Du ihn
anschlie�end vorher immer entfernen, also so:
myButton.onRelease = function() {
removeMovieClip(container);
this.createEmptyMovieClip("container",1);
loadMovie("film.swf",container);
Das bewirkt dann vielleicht, dass es zur�ckgesetzt
wird.
> Nee? Was nimmst du denn Sch�nes - onEnterFrame?
Ich habe die Tweening von Adobe auch noch nie benutzt, aber
ich wei� auch nicht, was Du
damit jetzt genau anstellst.
Ich benutze selbst die Movieclip Tweening Prototypes, siehe:
http://proto.layer51.com/d.aspx?f=1417
http://proto.layer51.com/d.aspx?f=1165
Neue Version:
http://www.mosessupposes.com/Fuse/
Gr��e
Nick Weschkalnies
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