I want a banner which pauses on an image for about 10 seconds, then moves to the next image for 10 seconds, and so on. there will be buttons so you can click to view one specific image (like the news section of this site: http://www.essendonfc.com.au/main.asp).

I’ve made it so the movie loops by itself, but when you click a button to view one of the other images, it loops back to the start frame but is meant to wait for another 10 seconds on that image, but for some reason it only waits 7-8 seconds (or sometimes not at all).

Could you take a look and tell me where I’ve gone wrong? The link to the SWF is here (http://www.conceptmedia.com.au/banner.swf) and the link to the flash file is here (http://www.conceptmedia.com.au/banner.fla).

kiosk which need to reset or go to fist frame every time

after 30 second when its not in use (as many people leave

kiosk in middle of application which need to reset

automatically after 30 sec)

Please let me know the code for automatic reset or go to

stop in first frame of application in flash.

Waiting for your reply.
Thanks,
pram

I am trying to pause the currently running Movie Clip with a pause button, and then start the Movie Clip playing again using a play button. I don’t want timed pauses… the pause is indefinite, it is user defined.

Gotcha. Fortunately, for this sort of pausing, where a timer isn’t needed, the code is actually much simpler!

One of the issues with your code example is that you were combining the on() and dot notation approaches for your pauseBtn event handler. The cleanest way I can think of to do this, assuming you have a pause button, a play button, and a content movie clip, is the following:

pauseBtn.onRelease = function:Void {
  contentClip.stop();
};

playBtn.onRelease = function():Void {
  contentClip.play();
};

In this situation, you don’t have to reference the content clip’s current frame, because when you invoke MovieClip.stop() on it, it’ll simply stop where it is, and be ready to resume later from that same frame.

Let me know if this makes senese (or doesn’t)!

To Pastor, Ab, ilike2flash, Sarjon …

Thanks!

To UzuNarU …

Is it possible to incorporate this into a button

I’m guessing you’d want a pause button always present, where the user could — at any time — halt the action for x-number of seconds? This would do it, assuming your pause button has the instance name pauseBtn, and that it sits in the same timeline as the following code.

var interval:Number;

pauseBtn.onRelease = pause;

function pause():Void {
  this._parent.stop();
  interval = setInterval(resume, 2000);
};
function resume():Void {
  play();
  clearInterval(interval);
};

Note that the object reference for the main timeline is different for both custom functions. In the pause() function, the reference is this._parent.stop();, because in AS2, this function’s point of view (its scope) belongs to the pauseBtn button, to whose Button.onRelease event it’s assigned. In the resume() function, no reference prefix is necessary — simply play() will do — because the scope of this function belongs to the main timeline (where the code is written).

To Nicole …

Glad to hear it; thanks!

To Digitalex …

btw this is the first blog i’ve ever been inspired to partake in! and the most positive one

Most positive is a high compliment! Thank you!

To sandy …

Thank you…thank you…of course, it worked first time, every time!
Your style of explaining things is superb!!

So glad to hear that. Glad it’s working out for you! When the light bulb finally does light, it really is a good feeling!

Thank you…thank you…of course, it worked first time, every time!
Your style of explaining things is superb!!
I was able to make the connection between animated gifs and flash pausing finally. Now if I could get my movie to pause at the end and just loop 3 times, I would be ecstatic. Help.

Your code on looping was fantastic and kept me from insanity. Now I need to put them together.

I know the lightbulb is coming on soon, lol. Thank you again.

thanks David

btw this is the first blog i’ve ever been inspired to partake in! and the most positive one

Many thanks!
Nicole

Anyways I really wanted to thank you for this piece of code, I spent a good 30 minutes trying to find this code for AS 2.0. It’s been a little while since worked with Flash. Is it possible to incorporate this into a button or would I justt make the button go to the frame and the AS in that frames AS layer will automatically activate?

Thanks Again David

Spent ages looking for that snippet of knowledge.

Cheers Dave!