Repeating or hiding a movie clip

Two questions: #1: Is is possible to repeat a iMovie Project (same as one can repeat a song in iTunes)?
#2: Is it possible to hide a iMovie clip (same as hiding a photo in iPhoto)?

musichouse wrote:
Two questions: #1: Is is possible to repeat a iMovie Project (same as one can repeat a song in iTunes)?
If you mean can you set it to play and have it repeat, No. Essentially iMovie is an editing application from which you are supposed to export to a playback format such as h264. Of course when you have exported you can open the resulting movie in Quicktime and have it repeat.
#2: Is it possible to hide a iMovie clip (same as hiding a photo in iPhoto)?
I suppose you could move it to another event (I assume you meant in the event window)

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I would like a movie clip to play repeat itself everytime a button is pressed

Hello,
I am new to actionscripting but not Flash, I am using Flash
MX 2004 for a college project at the moment. I have created an
interface which features four buttons, each button activates a
different movie clip. This works fine but only on the first time to
press the button if you press the button again the movie clip does
not play again, I would like the movie clip to play EVERY time the
button is pressed. Here is the script that I have created in a
seperate layer called actions, if that helps:
ellaimage._visible = false
Betaimage._visible = false
Yakuzapic._visible = false
Pornopic._visible = false
boxmovie._visible = false
Betabox._visible = false
textboxmc._visible = false
Yakuzabox1._visible = false
Pornobox1._visible = false
pellabutton.onRelease = function () {
stop ();
Betaimage._visible = false
Yakuzapic._visible = false
Pornopic._visible = false
textboxmc._visible = false
Betabox._visible = false
Pornobox1._visible = false
Yakuzabox1._visible = false
boxmovie._visible = true
textboxmc._visible = true
Pellaimage._visible = true;
Pellaimage.gotoAndplay(1)}
Betabutton.onRelease = function () {
stop ();
Pellaimage._visible = false
Yakuzapic._visible = false
Pornopic._visible = false
textboxmc._visible = false
Yakuzabox1._visible = false
Pornobox1._visible = false
Betaimage._visible = true
Betabox._visible = true
boxmovie._visible = true
Betaimage.gotoAndplay (1) }
Yakuzabutton.onRelease = function () {
stop ();
Pellaimage._visible = false
Betaimage._visible = false
Pornopic._visible = false
textboxmc._visible = false
Pornobox1._visible = false
Betabox._visible = false
Yakuzabox1._visible = true
boxmovie._visible = true
Yakuzapic._visible = true
Yakuzapic.gotoAndplay (1) }
Pornobutton.onRelease = function () {
stop ();
Pellaimage._visible = false
Yakuzapic._visible = false
Betaimage._visible = false
textboxmc._visible = false
Betabox._visible = false
Pornobox1._visible = true
Yakuzabox1._visible = false
Pornopic._visible = true
boxmovie._visible = true
Pornopic.gotoAndplay (1) }
// this command stops the timeline
stop ();
Any help would be great.
Thanks in advance

No that doesn't work, that isn't what I want to to be
repeated.
In the below script I want textboxmc (which is a movie clip)
to restart and play again everytime pellabutton is released.
pellabutton.onRelease = function () {
stop ();
Betaimage._visible = false
Yakuzapic._visible = false
Pornopic._visible = false
textboxmc._visible = false
Betabox._visible = false
Pornobox1._visible = false
Yakuzabox1._visible = false
boxmovie._visible = true
textboxmc._visible = true
Pellaimage._visible = true;
Pellaimage.gotoAndplay(1)}
Please can anyone help?

One script for multiple loaded movie clips

Hello,
I am sure that this has been asked or answered before, but
could not locate the correct response.
Problem:
There are 20 movie clips loaded onto the stage through
actionscript. I have 20 different onPress scripts to start the drag
for each (which also contain custom variable).
Problem, I have one single onRelease script which is to be
used for each, but do now wish to give 20 custom handled scripts.
Can I somehow use certain scripting for using one single
generic script for the onRelease? So no matter what was released it
will go through this one script.
Thanks
D

like this...
activate
set the_folder to choose folder with prompt "Select the folder you want to add folders to..."
tell application "Finder"
set the_name to "Name"
set the_count to 3
repeat with this_num from 1 to the_count
set new_num to this_num as string
if (count new_num) is 1 then set new_num to "0" & new_num
make new folder at the_folder with properties {name:the_name & " " & new_num}
end repeat
end tell

Targeting Multiple Movie Clips

Hi everyone,
I'm fairly new to ActionScript so I would really appreciate
any help I can receive.
Right, I have a Flash file which contains a movie clip with
an instance called, 'contentHold_mc'. Inside this movie clip are 4
individual movie clips with instances entitled, 'content1_mc',
'content2_mc', 'content3_mc' and 'content4_mc'. I know these are
not the best names for instances, but this is just for simplicty's
sake. At present all movie clips run at the same time. I want them
to run sequentially. On the last frame of the instance,
'content1_mc', I want to stop the instance from playing and start
playing the instance, 'content2_mc'. On the final frame on
'content3_mc', I want to stop the instance from playing and start
playing the instance, 'content3_mc', and so on until 'content4_mc'
finishes playing. I have tried to use the tellTarget function
without success and anyway, I believe this is now deprecated.
Would anybody be able to provide me some guidance please as
to how I can achieve the previous using the 'dot' notation?
I have tried the using the code found at the bottom of this
message in the final frame of the movie clip instance that I want
to play first ('content1_mc'), however get a compiler error because
of the preceding two full stops '..'
Thank you in advance for any help I may receive with this
query.

Put a stop(); command at the first frame of each of the
clips. On the last frame of the first clip put:
stop();
_parent.contentHold_mc.content2_mc.play();
repeat as needed for each movie clip.
Tell the first clip to play.

Combining Movie Clips in iPhoto

I currently use iPhoto 08 to download all of my photos and movie clips from my camera. Problem is, if I have, say 20 clips of one event on my camera, and want to combine into one large clip, i currently have to open all 20 clips, go to the second clip, "select all", hit "copy", then go to the first clip, "paste", then repeat 18x - - its very time consuming and easy to accidentally miss a clip or paste it in twice.....
Is there any easier / less time consuming way in iPhoto or another app to easily combine clips into one long clip?

You can combine movie files with Quicktime Pro.
OT

How to load dynamic text inside a movie clip?

hello all - i have a main stage where on the first frame my
"home" movie clip displays. i did this by dragging/dropping, and
then i put a stop action. all works fine.
inside this home movie clip on the main stage, there are
links to other movie clips. for example, to get to my faq's page -
you click that button, then it takes you to frame 4 on my main
stage, where my faq's movie clip (followed by stop action) has been
dragged/dropped and displays properly.
within the faq's movie clip this process is repeated, with
buttons taking to you various pages (different frames where
different movie clips play - all works fine).
so now i want to add a dynamic text field within my faq's
movie clip. i have read numerous tutorials where i have created the
text file but i have not been able to display it with success
within my faqs movie clip.
here is some code that my dvd tutorial instructs me to place
on main stage as i practice getting this to work:
var myMCL:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader ();
var myListener:Object = new Object();
myMCL.addListener(myListener);
var myLV:LoadVars = new LoadVars();
myLV.onLoad = function (success:Boolean) {
if (success) {
_level5.loadedInfo.htmlText = myLV.info;
} else {
_level5.loadedInfo.text = "There has been an error loading
the requested information. Please contact the webmaster.";
and here is some code that i place on the faqs button within
my main movie clip that takes me back to main stage and plays faq
movie clip all successfully:
on (release) {
//Movieclip GotoAndPlay Behavior
_root.gotoAndPlay("4");
//End Behavior
and finally, here is some code that i place within my faqs
movie clip in an attempt to display my dynamic text within the faqs
movie clip - so far unsuccessful:
_level0.myLV.load("vars/faqs.txt");
NOTE:
i have published this to view - not working.
i have my faqs text file starting as info=
i have eliminated white space within my text file
i am using flash 8 pro
can anyone offer some sugestions? thanks!

hmmmmm lemme double check as i seem to be a bit lost now.
// this is my actions layer code on frame 4 of main timeline:
stop();
var myLV:LoadVars = new LoadVars();
myLV.onLoad = function (success:Boolean) {
if (success) {
_level5.loadedInfo.htmlText = myLV.info;
} else {
_level5.loadedInfo.text = "There has been an error loading
the requested information. Please contact the webmaster.";
myLV.load("vars/faqs.txt");
1. fyi - at frame 4 on main timeline, one layer beneath the
actions layer where i dragged/dropped my faqs movie clip i gave my
faqs movie clip an instance name of "mainfaqs" - although nowhere
do i refer to this specific mc within my code.
2. where would i replace/insert the following code?
_level0.faq_mc.loadedInfo.text = myLV.info;
3. i didn't know about embedding font but i saw the option
and embedded it - still no results.
4. i'm not sure how to do the following:
_level5.loadedInfo.text ='test'; //although I would still
change the path as above
To see if your getting a return from the load call adn text
file, use a trace statment before the success condition and see
what it returns:
trace(myLV);
sorry to be such a pain - i really have looked around for
answers through previous postings and i googled it and i've been
taking instruction through lynda.com and dvds but i seem to be
stuck here.... as always - thanks for your time

OnRollOver sound in a movie clip object

Scenario: I have a frame with a quiz question and three answer options. The three answer options are movie clips. Their instance names are q1_soundA, q1_soundB, and q1_soundC. I want each option to make a different sound when rolling over them. My sounds are already in the library and they have been linked: each one has a unique identifier (a, b, and c) and "Export for ActionScript" and "Export in first frame" are checked. Under frame properties, sound is none, sync is event, and repeat is 1.
I have a separate layer with the following code in the first frame (the quiz question is in the second frame):
var snd_a = new Sound();
snd_a.attachSound("a");
var snd_b = new Sound();
snd_b.attachSound("b");
var snd_c = new Sound();
snd_c.attachSound("c");
gotoAndStop("q1"); // Go to the first question
// Sounds to be played as options in each question
q1_soundA.onRollOver = function () { snd_a.start(0,1); }
q1_soundB.onRollOver = function () { snd_b.start(0,1); }
q1_soundC.onRollOver = function () { snd_c.start(0,1); }
q1_soundA.onRollOut = function () { snd_a.stop(); }
q1_soundB.onRollOut = function () { snd_b.stop(); }
q1_soundC.onRollOut = function () { snd_c.stop(); }
Note: I also have three transparent buttons underneath each movie clip. I am using these buttons and some code to record the answers and calculate a score. This part is working fine though.
Problem: As soon as the quiz question frame is displayed, the first sound is played over and over again even if the cursor is not even close to any of the option answers. It doesn't matter where I move or click, the sound keeps playing all the time. I am new to ActionScript, so I'm not sure if I'm missing something somewhere. There is no code in any other frame or object.
Thanks in advance for your help.

Update: I found one "Over" frame event in one of the answer options which was playing the sound. I got rid of it and now my onRollOver code is doing nothing. The code stays the same as above.

Scrubbing Movie Clip Fills Memory, Crashes Flash

Hello,
We have a Flex 4/Actionscript 3 application that involves "scrubbing" through a Movie Clip that is a swf file derived from a .mov file. This is accomplished by listenening to the change in value of an HSlider and calling gotoAndStop(n) on the Movie Clip repeatedly as the slider is dragged. The Movie Clip is 720 pixels wide by 405 pixels high.
It works great, however, after doing this scrubbing action a number of times, which is required by our application, we notice the memory (by tracing System.totalMemory and System.privateMemory) increasing dramatically; and when it gets to around 100 MB (though it's not the same every time), the Flash plugin in the browser will crash. Our assumption is that this happens because the scrubbing essentially loads dozens of bitmaps (each frame of the Movie Clip that is scrubbed over) very rapidly.
To try and ameliorate this, we have implemented aggressive garbage collection by calling System.pauseForGCIfCollectionImminent(0.1) on a timer every 10 seconds. This usually keeps Flash from crashing, however, sometimes the garbage collection itself causes Flash to crash, though it's not 100% predictable. We know this because we are tracing the garbage collection action and can see Flash crash when that action occurs.
It doesn't seem like we have a memory leak per se, as the free memory is eventually regained when forcing garbage collection.
So I have a couple of questions:
1) Is there any way to keep the memory from getting so large in the first place, given that we need this scrubbing functionality?
2) If not, is there a better way of tweaking the garbage collection so that it frees up memory while not itself causing Flash to crash?

OK, I created a new Flex project with just the simplest possible scrubbing code, plus the memory tracing. Unfortunately, I'm getting the same results as I get in our big app. If I can figure out what you're doing differently, I might be able to get somewhere. Here's the code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<s:Application xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
               xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"
               xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx" minWidth="955" minHeight="600" addedToStage="onAddedToStage()">
    <fx:Declarations>
        
    </fx:Declarations>
    <fx:Script>
        <![CDATA[
            import flash.display.DisplayObject;
            import flash.display.MovieClip;
            import flash.events.Event;
            import flash.events.EventDispatcher;
            import flash.display.Loader;
            import flash.system.LoaderContext;
            import flash.net.URLLoader;
            import flash.net.URLLoaderDataFormat;
            import flash.net.URLRequest;
            private var swf:MovieClip;
            private var loader:Loader;
            private var memoryReportTimer:Timer = new Timer( 15000 );
            private var initialMemory:Number;
            private var currentMemory:Number;
            private function onAddedToStage():void {
                var req:URLRequest = new URLRequest( "sampleAsset/AlfredCiminoDemoReel.mov.swf" );
                var loaderContext:LoaderContext = new LoaderContext(false, ApplicationDomain.currentDomain, null);
                loader = new Loader();
                //loader.dataFormat = URLLoaderDataFormat.BINARY;
                swfContainer.addChild( loader );
                loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener( Event.COMPLETE, swfLoadComplete );
                loader.load( req, loaderContext );
                //(loader.content as MovieClip).gotoAndStop(1);
                //swf.gotoAndStop(1);
                trace( "initial free memory allocation: ", (System.freeMemory / 1024).toFixed(2));
                initialMemory = Number((System.totalMemory/1024).toFixed(2));
                currentMemory = initialMemory;
                memoryReportTimer.addEventListener( TimerEvent.TIMER, reportMemoryDelta );
                memoryReportTimer.start();
            private function swfLoadComplete( e:Event ):void {
                trace( "loading complete." );
                swf = loader.content as MovieClip;
                swf.gotoAndStop(1);
                //swfContainer.addChild(swf);
                scrubber.maximum = swf.totalFrames;
            private function reportMemoryDelta( evt:TimerEvent ):void {
                var currentMemory_temp:Number = Number((System.totalMemory/1024).toFixed(2));
                var tenSecDelta:Number = currentMemory_temp - currentMemory;
                currentMemory = currentMemory_temp;
                var overallDelta:Number = currentMemory - initialMemory;
                trace( "10 second change: ", tenSecDelta, ", overall change: ", overallDelta );
                trace( "free memory: ", (System.freeMemory / 1024).toFixed(2));
            public function setCurrentFrame():void {
                swf.gotoAndStop(scrubber.value);
        ]]>
    </fx:Script>
    <s:VGroup>
        <mx:UIComponent id="swfContainer" width="720" height="405">
        </mx:UIComponent>
        <s:HSlider id="scrubber" change="setCurrentFrame()" width="100%" />
    </s:VGroup>
</s:Application>
And here's the tracing output:

Randomize a Movie Clip Animation Using Actionscript

I'm new to actionscript.
I've been working on this sort of sunset-like sequence in
Flash. I've created a movie clip of a star that has a sort of
twinkle animation. It consists of 3 layers. What I want to do is
randomize this animation so I can use the symbol spray tool to fill
my sky with twinkling stars. If I just to a "gotoAndPlay" repeat,
they all twinkle at the same time, and this looks pretty stupid.
My limited knowledge and experience with Actionscript tells
me that I need to define the animation as a function and use some
sort of math randomizer to control when it plays?
I have some books on actionscript I'm yet to work through, as
this is sort of a hobby of mine that I'm teaching myself, but I
haven't had the time nor energy to wrap my brain around it yet.
Thanks for any help!

Well, I've now decided to only have a few stars twinkling, so
it's no longer going to be that much of an effort to do a couple of
different movie clips that twinkle at different periods of time. I
just had the brilliant idea to do constellations that highlight and
serve as the button navigation for my portfolio website, and I plan
to have it seem like your panning up above the horizon and looking
up into the sky, and having about a hundred twinkling stars moving
and twinkling at the same time would probably prove super taxing on
most computers lol...
I'd still like to hear from anyone who may know how to do
this as it would still come in handy to me.

Using Events To Play Another Movie Clip

Dear Readers:
I have a set of buttons in my flash movie that, when a mouse
cursor passes over it, another movie clip on the stage causes a
layer with text to gradually appear from below. It pops up, so to
speak, and eventually stops, displaying the text related to the
button in full view.
Passing over a different button causes the text layer to move
downward, slowly disappear off the stage, then reappear in the same
manner with text associated with that latest button. Its fairly
simple and works fine, as long as the user waits patiently for the
text layer to scroll down and back up before passing over another
button. See code below.
However, if the user decides to quickly pass over multiple
buttons (before the text layer reaches the top), the event handler
is coded such that if the mouseover event occurs BEFORE the text
layer reaches the top, the text layer starts over at the bottom, so
the transition is not smooth. Imagine the text layer just about to
reach the top, when the mouseover event occurs, now the text layer
starts over from the bottom. Very choppy.
I'd like to grab the current frame of the text layer movie
clip when the mouseover event occurs, and have the layer move back
down from there, reach the bottom, then come back up, rather than
starting from the bottom. Any help in coming would be great. Thanks
in advance.

yourI = setInterval(f,t) starts a loop. it repeatedly calls
the function f() every t milliseconds until a clearInterval(yourI)
is executed.
the most common problem that occurs with setInterval() is
executing it twice (or more) with no intervening clearInterval().
when that happens all hell breaks loose and the swf will call the
function much more rapidly than intended and can not be (easily)
stopped no matter how many clearInterval() statements you try and
execute.
the easiest way to prevent that problem is to execute a
clearInterval() just BEFORE all setInterval() statements. it
doesn't hurt anything to (try and) clear and interval that doesn't
exist and occasionally it'll stop the seemingly bizarre problems
that occur with out-of-control intervals:
clearInterval(yourI);
yourI=setInterval(f,t);

Missing movie clip

Hi. I have six movie clips positioned across the stage and a following row of six movie clips below it. All of them move up the stage and are activated with a seperate key press and it works ok first time. The following times going up the stage, the fith and sixth movie clips are not visible on the first row, but are on the second row. Why and what can I do to fix it? The following code is what I am using for each clip - just repeated and named accordingly.
CODE: addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, leftbubbleMove);
function leftbubbleMove(e:Event):void {
    if (leftbubble_mc.y > - 150) {
        trace(leftbubble_mc.y);
        leftbubble_mc.y -=2;
    } else {
        leftbubble_mc.y = 650
        leftbubble_mc.gotoAndStop(1);
        //leftbubble has reached the top
        //trace("leftbubble has burst");
        //leftbubble_mc.gotoAndPlay(2);
        //leftbubble_mc.y < 50;
    //code to change the color of a movieClip
    var myColor:ColorTransform = leftbubble_mc.transform.colorTransform;
    myColor.color = 0x00FFFF;
    //detect when bubble has entered the target zone
    if (leftbubble_mc.y < 100 && leftbubble_mc.y > 50) {
        //code in here changes the left bubble when it
        //enters the target zone.
        //change back to original when gone past target zone.
        trace("color change bubble");
        leftbubble_mc.transform.colorTransform = myColor;
        //leftbubble_mc.color = 0x00FFFF;
    } else {
        myColor.color = 0xFFFF99
        leftbubble_mc.transform.colorTransform = myColor;
    //detect when bubble has left the target zone
addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, leftbubbleaMove);
function leftbubbleaMove(e:Event):void {
    if (leftbubblea_mc.y > - 150) {
        trace(leftbubblea_mc.y);
        leftbubblea_mc.y -=2;
    } else {
        leftbubblea_mc.y = 650
        leftbubblea_mc.gotoAndStop(1);
        //leftbubblea has reached the top
        //trace("leftbubblea has burst");
        //leftbubblea_mc.gotoAndPlay(2);
        //leftbubblea_mc.y < 50;
    //code to change the color of a movieClip
    var myColor:ColorTransform = leftbubblea_mc.transform.colorTransform;
    myColor.color = 0x00FFFF;
    //detect when bubble has entered the target zone
    if (leftbubblea_mc.y < 100 && leftbubblea_mc.y > 50) {
        //code in here changes the leftbubblea when it
        //enters the target zone.
        //change back to original when gone past target zone.
        trace("color change bubble");
        leftbubblea_mc.transform.colorTransform = myColor;
        //leftbubblea_mc.color = 0x00FFFF;
    } else {
        myColor.color = 0xFFFF99
        leftbubblea_mc.transform.colorTransform = myColor;
    //detect when bubble has left the target zone
AND ALSO
stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN, keyDownHandler );
function keyDownHandler(e:KeyboardEvent):void {
        if (e.keyCode == "Q".charCodeAt()) {
        trace("Q has been pressed");
    //place if to limit region of screen in which bubble can be popped here
    //removeChild(leftbubble_mc)
        if (leftbubble_mc.y < 100 && leftbubble_mc.y > 70) {
        trace("leftbubble has been burst");
        leftbubble_mc.gotoAndPlay(2);
        if (e.keyCode == "Q".charCodeAt()) {
        trace("Q has been pressed");
    //place if to limit region of screen in which bubble can be popped here
    //removeChild(leftbubble_mc)
        if (leftbubblea_mc.y < 100 && leftbubblea_mc.y > 70) {
        trace("leftbubblea has been burst");
        leftbubblea_mc.gotoAndPlay(2);
stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN, keyDownHandler );
        if (e.keyCode == "G".charCodeAt()) {
        trace("G has been pressed");
    //place if to limit region of screen in which bubble can be popped here
    //removeChild(left1bubble_mc)
        if (left1bubble_mc.y < 100 && left1bubble_mc.y > 70) {
        trace("left1bubble has been burst");
        left1bubble_mc.gotoAndPlay(2);

Please ignore this question - I had
code typing errors. Got it working.

Buttons inside movie clip dont work

I have a simple HTML website with 5 buttons one of which, a movie clip, drops down 3 more buttons but the buttons dont always work. I get wierd issues for instance: whether I'm on the mcs page or another page completly the drop down buttons only work when Im on the parent movie clips page. When the buttons do work and you click on the button of the page your on they only work once then the whole issue repeats itself. Hopefully to clarify here is the code inside of the movie clip that directs the drop down buttons.
stop();
var cdButton:URLRequest= new URLRequest("character desin.html");
cd_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, cd);
function cd(event:MouseEvent):void
        navigateToURL(cdButton,"_self");
var caButton:URLRequest= new URLRequest("concept art.html");
ca_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, ca);
function ca(event:MouseEvent):void
        trace("ca_btn");
        navigateToURL(caButton,"_self");
var dsButton:URLRequest= new URLRequest("draw sketch.html");
ds_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, ds);
function ds(event:MouseEvent):void
        trace("ds_btn");
        navigateToURL(dsButton,"_self");

From what I see you are trying to somehow program a Actionscript only iframe navigation. That will never work without an external Interface call to the Browsers Javascript. This is complicated stuff and surely not what you have in mind. If concept art, draw sketch etc. are all separate swf files, you should load them (instead of the html you embedded them in)

Playing multiple movie clips one after other on main timeline

Excuse the probably simple question but I'm just starting off with Flash.
I have imported a few video trailers directly into flash and saved them as movie clips.
I want to be able to insert these movie clips onto the main timeline and play them one after the other, repeating once they have all played.
On the main timeline I have set a layer for each clip and a keyframe where the clip is inserted for each layer.
When I go to play the flash file, it is showing the first frame from each movie file and then moving to the first frame of the next movie file.
What do I need to do to make flash play the entire movie file in that specific frame before moving to the next frame where the next movie file is and playing all that movie?
Sorry for what is probably a simple thing to ask.
thanks

Create an actions layer on the main timeline and place stop(); commands on that layer in each frame where a movieclip resides.
Within in each movieclip, at the end (last frame) you want to tell the main timeline to play(); so that it moves to the next frame (where it will stop because of the stop() commands you add).
So at the end of each movieclip you will put either:
for AS2: _parent.nextFrame();
for AS3: MovieClip(parent).nextFrame();
For the last movieclip in the lineup you will replace nextFrame() with gotoAndStop(1);

*Class Project - Please help: Why does my movie clip keep playing over and over?

I am desperate for help on this one as its my Final Flash
class project and I just can't get my scenes/movie clips to play in
the order I want them to.
I have Scene 1 (movie clip 1) that plays and then Scene 2
(movie clip 2) plays. The problem is that Scene 2 (or movie clip 2)
repeats itself over and over again. I can't get it to go back to
Scene 1 (movie clip 1) to play that again.
I want it go to to this Scene 1 and actually start at a
certain frame to continue on with the story.
I have named my movie clip instances.
What am I doing wrong? I went into movie clip 2, into
actions, and movie clip control, and I don't really see a way to
tell it to go back and play movie clip 1. Trying to see how to
refer back to the instance name of the movie clip and get it to
play.
Ideas? Please please? I would be forever greatful.
Angie

quote:
Originally posted by:
computerkitten
I wonder if I should just take that movie clip out of the
scene completely.... and not have the second scene at all. Maybe I
should just have 1 scene and these 2 movie clips. Wonder if that
would work better?
As Nickels55 said, above, scenes add unnecessary complexity.
So the answer to this is: YES. Scenes are awkward in Flash. Never
use them in any final project. Put everything on a single timeline
in a single scene, and you will have much better control of the
project.

Movie Clip problem

I'm using an actionscript scrolling '3d' grid for a
background in a flash file and I want to use it in another. Problem
is, for the darndest reason, the script wouldn't work in my
original file *but* I tweaked the sample file to get it to work, so
I could use that, perhaps. Long story short (too late?) I would
like to embed an .swf as a movie clip into another file so that the
scrolling background will just play while other things are going on
on different layers, but when I try to export the .swf from the
scrolling field file, I don't get the working scripted behavior in
the movie clip. I'm fairly new to Flash and would like to know if
there is any way to fix this.
The method I used to create the scrolling field is
essentially what is described here:
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/perspective-moving-effect
Please help!

no, you do not. just click on your w00t movieclip and in the
properties panel type:
w00tMC. repeat for your widget and type: fa in the properties
panel.
and in then click on an empty part of the stage (or
off-stage) and in the actionspanel paste:

Repeating or hiding a movie clip

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