Stop 1 movie when playing another

Question

I have a project with 5 flv files in it. I have buttons to
take the user to whichever clip they would like to hear (they are
audio only, with controllers).
The problem is, once you have started any of the clips
playing, if you click to go to another one, the first one continues
to play at the same time. Is there a simple script to tell whatever
may already be playing to stop before the other one begins?
This is my first Flash project,btw-- I don't know anything!
:)

Answer 1

eddiwill9,
>> If the instance name was, for example, froggy, you
would
>> invoke MovieClip.stop() like this: froggy.stop().
> I "almost" understand you here. But it looks like (and I
may be wrong)
> that this stops only a specific clip.
That's exactly right! You and I, we're both instances of the
Human
class. Each of us shares properties, methods, and events
shared by all
humans. If someone (or something) shouted, "Whoa, duck!" it
would be awful
if every human being ducked. That's why the communication
goes one-on-one.
> What if you were on "kitty" rather than "froggy". It
would seem like some
> sort of more global stop would be called for since you
don't know which
> clip you are going to be coming from. Does that make
sense?
I'm proposing that you drag only a single FLVPlayback
instance to your
Stage. Give it an instance name -- let's say videoPlayer
(which is a little
more helpfully descriptive than kitty or froggy -- but same
concept). Now
that this one instance has an instance name, you can invoke
FLVPlayback
class members on it.
In frame 1, for example, you could set its contentPath
property to a
video about frogs.
videoPlayer.contentPath = "frogs.flv";
In frame 2, you could set its contentPath property to a
video about
kittens. There's really no need for more than on instance of
FLVPlayback on
the Stage (though there isn't anything illegal about it,
either). I know
you can set properties on FLVPlayback components (and any
component) in the
Parameters tab, but those parameters are nothing more than
properties. The
available properties depend on what class you're dealing
with.
If you really wanted to use more than one FLVPlayback
instance, you
would give each one its own instance name and use the
relevant instance name
as your object reference prefix. Either which way, you'll
find methods like
pause(), play(), stop(), and others that would make sense for
an object like
this one.
For FLVPlayback, you'll actually have to look in the
Components Language
Reference for ActionScript 2.0. If you're using Flash CS3 and
have access
to Actionscript 3.0, you'll find that even the components are
listed in the
ActionScript Language Reference, which is really helpful.
David Stiller
Contributor, How to Cheat in Flash CS3
http://tinyurl.com/2cp6na
"Luck is the residue of good design."