Multiple click points for one button and movie clip

Question

I am trying to make a single button into a multiple click
point. I have a movie clip on the stage and I have an invisible
button over it. The movie clip consists of a single timeline that
has an ambient animation running and looping intially. I have three
more labeled sections of that timeline that each contain a
different animated sequence as click point animations for that
movie clip. I want the user to click on the button on the stage and
the first labeled click point animation of that movie clip will
play. I want that action to be stored so that when the user clicks
again then the second labeled click point animation will play then
they will click for the third in the same way. In between user
clicks I want the ambient animation loop in the beginning of that
movie clip timeline to play. When the user has clicked the 3rd and
last animated sequence then the whole thing will reset and be
available again. Can anyone let me know how that can be
accomplished. I originally scripted it through tell target to play
the first but I don't know how to move forward. Thanks!

Answer 1

What version of Flash are you using? Telltarget is very
old... try something like this:
// array of the animations
myAnims = ['firstAnim','secondAnim','thirdAnim']; // these
are also frame labels
// your current animation index in the array, arrays start at
0,
// so we start at -1 which is like before anything
currAnim = -1;
// function to play the next animation
function nextAnim(){
// add one to the current animation index
currAnim++;
// if you've reached the end of the array, start back at 0
if(currAnim >= myAnims.length)currAnim = 0;
// now tell the MovieClip to play based on the value of the
current array index
myMovieClip.gotoAndPlay(myAnims[currAnim]);
Then on the button you just put:
on(release){
nextAnim();
And at the end of each animation on the timeline, put:
gotoAndPlay(1);
And at the end of the ambient loop at the beginning I guess
you have that, too, so it loops.
Hope that helps