Pause instance of movie clip on stage?

I've got instances of movie clips that appear in sequence
along the main timeline and would like to be able to make it so
that the user can pause and resume at their leisure. Is there a way
to accomplish this short of making the instances separate SWF/FLV
files?

i don't see that error message and i don't see a problem.

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Hello i asked this in my another topic but that topic was
mainly related with another problem.
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one dissappearing.(but this is not prior problem i think first i
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method - it is a method of a MovieClip. You need something
like:
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Dave -
Adobe Community Expert
www.blurredistinction.com
http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/

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hello,
I was wondering if there was a way to add several instances
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I can do one with the following code placed on the button...
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But I want the user to be able to hit the button again and
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I also want the user to be able to drag these instances
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Any help would be appreciated...
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Muhl

Muhl,
> I was wondering if there was a way to add several
> instances of the same movie clip to the stage
> dynamically utilizing one button.
Sure thing.
> I can do one with the following code placed on the
> button...
>
> on (release) {
> attachMovie ("filledCircle", "filled1", 5);
> filled1._x = 370;
> filled1._y = 225;
> }
Gotcha.
> But I want the user to be able to hit the button again
> and get yet another instance of "filledCircle" on the
> stage.
You're in luck, because this isn't very hard to do. The main
thing to
keep in mind is that each instance must have A) its own
unique instance name
and B) its own unique depth. In your example, the instance
name is filled1
and the depth is 5. The next clip's instance name should be
filled2 at a
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single
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With me so far? The variable counter contains the numeric
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provided with
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225). Are they call supposed to go to the same place? If so,
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second variable to hold a reference to the newly attached
clip. Look up
MovieClip.attachMovie(), and you'll see that the method
returns the exact
reference you need.
// code in a frame
var counter:Number = 1;
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counter + 4);
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mc._y = 225;
Make sense?
> I also want the user to be able to drag these instances
> around...
Then you need to handle a few events. You're dealing with
movie clips
here, so your best bet is to study up on the MovieClip class,
which defines
all movie clips. (Note, also, that the TextField class
defines all input
and dynamic text fields; the Sound class defines all sounds,
etc. This is a
very handy arrangement of the ActionScript 2.0 Language
Reference.)
// code in a frame
var counter:Number = 1;
var mc:MovieClip;
// code on your button
on (release) {
mc = attachMovie ("filledCircle", "filled" + counter,
counter + 4);
counter++;
mc._x = 370;
mc._y = 225;
mc.onPress = function() {
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mc.onRelease = function() {
this.stopDrag();
Easy as that. You're simply assigning a function literal to
the event
of each new MovieClip instance as you create it. Take a look
and you'll see
each of these class members available to you -- that is, to
all movie clips.
MovieClip.onPress, MovieClip.startDrag(), MovieClip._x, etc.
Wherever it shows the term MovieClip in the Language
Reference, just
replace that with the instance name of your clip -- or a
reference to that
clip (which even includes the global "this" property).
David
stiller (at) quip (dot) net
Dev essays:
http://www.quip.net/blog/
"Luck is the residue of good design."

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I'm trying to assign a mouseclick event listener to a simplebutton nested within a movie clip's later frames, starting at frame 2 and up. This card, however, is not added to my game until later, and when the player clicks on it/turns it over.
There are four files involved in this program:
#1 The main actionscript file, which corresponds to
#2 my dreamQuester .fla file.
#3 my artifactCard file movieClip's corresponding .as file,
#4 my combo1.as file corresponding to a an instance of a simpleButton named combo1 that is already
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~Ethan

Just use a
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Where I show the "???" you would replace with the keyCode for the key you want pressed for that sound. To determine the keyCode you can use the trace line that I have commented out.
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package {
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I'm missing something obvious, I know it, but I'm new to OOP, switching from procedural, so I'm sure I'm getting a concept wrong somewhere.
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Amber

yes, it makes sense and yes, you'll need to learn a little.
I have 50 movie clips not linked to any actionscript in the movie.
that's incorrect. those movieclips are linked to all the actionscript that applies to their class. so, even if those movieclips weren't part of the GeoClass, they still have all the properties, methods and events of the movieclip class (created by adobe developers).
The fact these movieclips are actually GeoGroup objects extending the movieclip class, adds even more code to them. and, so far that's all good and exactly what you should do.
They are all on the stage. They are all named with their instance names "puzzleAZ" "puzzleTX" etc.
no problem, usually. (but in your case, a problem explained below.)
I want to be able to add variables to them, such as strings and numbers, so that I can call puzzleAZ.size or puzzleAZ.fullName to get "XX Acres" or "Arizona" returned.
so, in programming lingo you want your objects to be members of a dynamic (ie, you can add properties) class. the movieclip class is just such a class.
I created a separate class (GeoGroup) that extends MovieClip that has in it all the variables I need and tried to assign each movie clip to that class.
here's the problem. when you created your GeoGroup class you mandated that certain parameters be passed to the constructor. when you add a class member (like each of those puzzle pieces) to the stage, the class constructor is invoked (along with everything else in that class). However, no parameters are passed to your constructor so the flash compiler points out the issue and refuses to run your code.
there are two ways you could proceed:
1. remove the parameters from the constructor
2. don't add any class members to the stage in the authoring environment.
p.s. this is your GeoGroup constructor:
      public function GeoGroup(abbrev:String, fullName:String, assignedOrder:Number, lock:Boolean) {
            this.abbrev = abbrev;
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