Question

Making a flash button do two things at once.

Asked by: ScottH0221

I am trying to get a button inside a movie to start another movie and then also goto a certain frame on the _root movie.  I am not having any luck getting this to work.  I am working on the website www.designplaninc.com  I have setup the menu buttons so that when you move your mouse into a certain area that the menu box expands and when you move out the menu box collapses.  But the problem is that when you scroll out of the area to fast it doesn't catch it.  So I wanted to add code to a button that minimized the menu box when it also goes to the frame that you have selected.  Here is the code I am using
on (release) {
      _root.menubar.gotoAndPlay(15);
}

on (release) {
                     _root.gotoandPlay(56);
}

It doesn't see to do anything with the first item and scips down to the _root.gotoandPlay (56)

Any help would be appreciated..

THANKS

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2008-06-19 at 06:48:23ID23498815
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Answers

 

by: crooksy88Posted on 2008-06-19 at 07:23:54ID: 21822388

on (release) {
_root.menubar.gotoAndPlay(15);
_root.gotoandPlay(56);
}

 

by: crooksy88Posted on 2008-06-19 at 07:25:02ID: 21822397

spotted the lowercase A in your code. It should be:

on (release) {
_root.menubar.gotoAndPlay(15);
_root.gotoAndPlay(56);
}

 

by: ScottH0221Posted on 2008-06-19 at 07:29:45ID: 21822452

No still not working it won't even goto frame 56 now when you put them together.  menubar is the movie clip name is that how it's supposed to be listed?

 

by: crooksy88Posted on 2008-06-19 at 07:47:26ID: 21822659

Is it the movieclip instance name? i.e. added to the properties panel?

See the attached file for a working example. download the file and change the .txt to .fla.
The code above is correct.


 

by: ScottH0221Posted on 2008-06-19 at 08:16:57ID: 21823005

ok adding the instance name worked but...

it does the first line but doesn't do the the second

on (release) {
      _root.menubar.gotoAndPlay(16);
      _root.gotoAndPlay(568);
}

 

by: crooksy88Posted on 2008-06-19 at 08:54:40ID: 21823483

Have you tried running the example I have supplied? This does both commands.

Have you get 568 frames on the root?

 

by: ScottH0221Posted on 2008-06-19 at 09:03:04ID: 21823580

i couldn't open the attachment are you working on a mac?

 

by: crooksy88Posted on 2008-06-19 at 09:07:04ID: 21823622

Yes but that shouldn't be an issue. Have you got Flash CS3 or Flash 8?

 

by: ScottH0221Posted on 2008-06-19 at 09:20:14ID: 21823753

Let me add something...  What I have is a movie inside a movie.  I have a menubar accross the top that acts as a movie and one of the buttons has a submenu which is in another movie and that is where my button is that I am trying to get it to do the action.

 

by: crooksy88Posted on 2008-06-19 at 09:29:42ID: 21823848

I'm sure your problems lie with targeting the movieclips correctly.

You can try this: Select a movieclip and add this code to it. Then test the movie.

on clipEvent(load) {
trace(this._target);
}

This will output the path to the movieclip.

Alternatively you can attached the file and I'll take a look.

 

by: ScottH0221Posted on 2008-06-19 at 09:37:11ID: 21823914

i can't send the .fla file is 40 meg....   Don't suppose there is a different way to get to you?  Also do I need to change any of the on clipevent code to label the movie?

 

by: crooksy88Posted on 2008-06-19 at 09:47:44ID: 21824008

No, as long as you select the movieclip on the timeline, then paste the code into the actions panel it will work.

How about zipping the file up and posting it on your website, then send me  a link to it so I can download it.

 

by: ScottH0221Posted on 2008-06-19 at 09:54:19ID: 21824065

 

by: ScottH0221Posted on 2008-06-19 at 10:23:43ID: 21824345

should probably let you know that the menu bar across is a movie with submenu which is also a movie inside of it.  Let me know if you were able to download

 

by: crooksy88Posted on 2008-06-19 at 11:09:07ID: 21824781

OK I've downloaded the file but I can't see anywhere that you are trying to do two gotoAndPlay's at once?

 

by: ScottH0221Posted on 2008-06-19 at 11:19:39ID: 21824869

well if you goto the subbuttons movie and then goto the argosy casino hotel and spa button.  I had...
on (release) {
      _root.menubar.gotoAndPlay(16);
      _root.gotoAndPlay(568);
}

try pasteing that there and you will see what I mean..

 

by: crooksy88Posted on 2008-06-19 at 11:34:12ID: 21825006

I think the problems lie with how you have created the entire movie and unfortunately I can't make sense of what is going on.

Going back to your initial question, the code I supplied does do what you ask, it's just that you have other commands being played all over the timeline so it's extremely difficult to pinpoint the reason why the timeline isn't doing what you want it to.

My suggestion would be that you make a copy of your file, then work on the copy, remove the menu bar altogether, then slowly build it back up, working with simple buttons. Only when you have it working as you want should you look into animating it.

Sorry I can't help any more.

Mark

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