Stopping an Animation

[TheThrock]

How do I keep the animation from looping over and over. DO I have to use Action script and if so, How?

Thanks,
Eric

[TheThrock]

Also, Can I make the animation happen by pushing a button? How do I do that one?
THanks.

[Legacy_Staff]

It should only repeat if you ask it to loop the playback (check settings).

Animating a button is just several movies in one.
You make the button on one timeline, then make the animation you want to happen on the mouse over and drop it into the mix (sry, it's actionscript time) and the same for mouse down's, etc, etc.

THIS may help but there are loads more out there.
I haven't used Flash for ages so I had to Google for it.

[PixelLuv]

add a stop action on the final frame to make sure.

you can add a goto and play to a button symbol and just set it to start on frame 1 of the movie you want to play.

~Pxl

[TheThrock]

I tried but can't get it. Goto and play to a button?
I have the animation that runs when I press ctrl/enter.
and I have a button that I need to press to get the animation to run instead of it just running by itself.
Where do I put goto and play at?

Thanks,
Eric

[PixelLuv]

If your pressing enter and its running your still in the app right? you need to test it in the browser. and goToandPlay is a fairly basic frame action.

To be fair, this is a fairly in depth question. Details beyond what a chat or message board can attend to. Just check out the tutorial that comes with the app on button behaviors. It wont take that long and if you have a sticking point at that juncture let me know and ill help sort it out.

I'm not trying to punt your question. I just cant go through all the basic flash development steps on a board. Use the tutorials and the web and u will get up to speed quickly.

~Pxl

[TheThrock]

I read a few things. I may be doing this wrong so I am going to run it by you.

I have two layers with a shape tween from frame 1 to frame 30 simulating doors opening. Each layer is a door with one opening to the left and one to the right. At frame 30 of each layer I have stop(); in the action script box. This opens the dors once then they stop.

I have another layer that it the button is in titled Button and another layer titled actions.

In the actions layer I have the action script as follows:
open_btn.onRelease {
gotoAndPlay(1,1);
}

When running the file I get this error:
**Error** Scene=Scene 1, layer=actions, frame=1:Line 1: Syntax error.
open_btn.onRelease {
**Error** Scene=Scene 1, layer=actions, frame=1:Line 2: Scene name must be quoted string
gotoAndPlay(1,1);
Total ActionScript Errors: 2 Reported Errors: 2


It's definately wrong and I just can't seem to get to the next step.

Any help is great. Thanks.

[PixelLuv]

you only need one stop(); action per timeline.

try removing that script. opening your button symbol. putting that script in the down frame. i dont think you need the "open_btn" part if you do that.

id put my stop action in frame 30 of my action layer. tidy.

test your movie. this should run the timeline once. then whenever you hit the button the movie will return to frame 1 of the movie and play to the stop action. if you dont want it to play at all then put a stop action on frame 1 in your action layer. and set your gotoAndPlay to (1,2) i think. been a while. im rusty.

~Pxl

[TheThrock]

great I got it, except the button opens the doors but then when they open it goes back to frame one before it stops.

I put the stop(); action in frame 30 of my actions layer and it shows up on every frame of the actions layer.

The gotoAndPlay had to be (1) because (1,2) gave errors.

Any more thoughts, I am almost there with it.

And Thanks a lot.

[TheThrock]

great, we did it.
Thanks!

[PixelLuv]

glad it worked. did u sort the stop in every frame thing. u need to place it in a keyframe.

post it and link it.

~Pxl

[JacobHaug]

Sometimes it is so easy to miss just the smallest thing in actionscript.

[rusty149]

yeh actionscript drives me crazy sometimes like the other day i wrote a whole load of code and on one of the lines i should have had 2 = and i only had 1 it messed it all up lol
rusty