Control Main Timeline Using a Function (Jumping to a different frame using labels)

[JamesHatter]

Hi Guys,

Please can someone point me in the direction of a tutorial or help me understand how to jump to different frame labels in the main timeline of a SWF file using functions....

I have a SWF file and want some kind of function that makes the SWF play a specific frame label when a true or false is present

I have 8 points on frame labels... "neutral", "conversation" "light_conversation" etc...

The "neutral" frame label ( the first one ) runs to a 'stop)' frame and is the open animation. The animation will just be a looping movie clip on the stage.

e.g. from an external file x=hot / in the swf, if "hot = true" then play frame label 'hot'....

There should be a function that can be called by an external whatever that will tell the SWF movie to " gotoAndPlay " a specific frame label such as "sensitive", "happy_1" etc... At the end of each of these frame labels there is an action that will take the play head back to the first frame ( gotoAndPlay(1); ) which is where it will stay until another function is called that that frame label is played.

The thing is that I think the control of the frame labels must be done
by using a function or something like that as it will be controled
by an external script...

Thanks guys, any help really would be very, very much appreciated. You can kind of see what im trying to do....

Help?!

THANKS !

: )

[Sgaspar11]

This is definately possible...

Here is the idea of what you are wanting to do.

In the flash object on your html page, in your flash object you can create a FlashVar that looks something like this:

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<param name="flashvars" value="mood=happy" />

and in the embed tag add:

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flashvars="mood=happy"

Then in your flash file create a variable called mood:

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var mood:String;

Then on your actions layer in your first frame (where you just created your variable) create a simple IF statement that says:

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if (mood=happy)
{
gotoAndPlay("happy"); //framed in flash labeled happy
{
else
{
      if (mood=sad)
        {
         gotoAndPlay("sad");
        {
}

and so on and so on...

This will pull the value from the flashvar variable in the object embed tags. (which right now is static and set to happy)

The next step in this process is to make that flashvar variable dynamic using JS, PHP or ASP whatever you use.

That way when a button is clicked is dynamically changes that variable and updates it in the .swf.

This will hopefully get you on your way...

EDIT: In thinking more about this, it would only update the variable when the page was refreshed/re-loaded using this method.

I guess I don't know the scope of what you are trying to accomplish, but this might with for you.