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making play button to play different clips

Apr 21, 2012 9:04 AM

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how do i make a play button play different movie clips that are placed on to a timeline in actionscript 3?

here is an example of what im doing. so you drag and drop the moive clips on to the timeline, at the bottom which then snaps in to place.

once the timeline has been filed up you press the play button, then it plays all the moive clips in sequence.

 

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1229 Views   11 Replies   Latest reply: kglad, Apr 23, 2012 3:10 AM
 
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  • kglad
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    1. kglad,
    Apr 21, 2012 9:04 AM   in reply to 1richard1
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    you assign instance names to each movieclip and button (in the properties panel) and in the actions panel you assign listeners to your buttons that call a listener function that "plays" your movieclip.  for example, if you have a button (btn1) and movieclip (mc1), you could use:

     

    btn1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,btn1F);

    function btn1F(e:MouseEvent):void{

    mc1.play();

    }

     
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    2. 1richard1,
    Apr 21, 2012 9:30 AM   in reply to kglad
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    I just done that but it dont work. is there a way for it to play all the movie clips that you have dragged on to the time line.

     

    so for example say i have dragged  Vid2 vid6,vid5, vid10, vid3 and vid11 on to the timeline then press play. playing only them selective movieclips in my preview box?

     
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    Apr 21, 2012 12:23 PM   in reply to 1richard1
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    copy and paste the code you tried.

     
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    Apr 21, 2012 12:57 PM   in reply to kglad
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    if (event.target.hitTestObject(box))

              {

                        var myMovie:MovieClip = MovieClip(event.target);

                        stopClipDrag(myMovie);

                        myMovie.snapBack();

                        switch (myMovie.name)

                        {

                                  case "vid1" :

     

     

                                            this.gotoAndPlay("two");

                                            break;

                                  case "vid2" :

     

     

                                            this.gotoAndPlay("three");

                                            break;

                                  case "vid3" :

                                            this.gotoAndPlay("four");

                                            break;

                                  case "vid4" :

                                            this.gotoAndPlay("five");

                                            break;

                                  case "vid5" :

                                            this.gotoAndPlay("six");

                                            break;

                                  case "vid6" :

                                            this.gotoAndPlay("seven");

                                            break;

                                  case "vid7" :

                                            this.gotoAndPlay("eight");

                                            break;

                                  case "vid8" :

                                            this.gotoAndPlay("nine");

                                            break;

                                  case "vid9" :

                                            this.gotoAndPlay("ten");

                                            break;

                                  case "vid10" :

                                            this.gotoAndPlay("eleven");

                                            break;

                                  case "vid11" :

                                            this.gotoAndPlay("twelve");

                                            break;

                                  case "vid12" :

                                            this.gotoAndPlay("thirteen");

                                            break;

                                  case "vid13" :

                                            this.gotoAndPlay("fourteen");

                                            break;

                                  case "vid14" :

                                            this.gotoAndPlay("onefive");

                                            break;

                                  case "vid15" :

                                            this.gotoAndPlay("onesix");

                                            break;

                                  case "vid16" :

                                            this.gotoAndPlay("oneseven");

                                            break;

                                  case "vid17" :

                                            this.gotoAndPlay("oneeigth");

                                            break;

                                  case "vid18" :

                                            this.gotoAndPlay("onenine");

                                            break;

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

                        }

              }

              else

              {

     

     

                        // do some tests for the time slots

                        for (i=1; i<7; i++)

                        {

                                  if (event.target.hitTestObject(this["dropzone" + i]))

                                  {

                                            myMovie = MovieClip(event.target);

                                            if (this["dropzone" + i].getVid() != myMovie)

                                            {

                                                      stopClipDrag(myMovie);

                                                      myMovie.x = this["dropzone" + i].x;

                                                      myMovie.y = this["dropzone" + i].y;

                                                      this["dropzone" + i].setVid(myMovie);

                                            }

                                  }

                        }

              }

    }

     

     

     

     

    play_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, fl_Click_Play);

     

     

    function fl_Click_Play(event:MouseEvent):void

    {

        MovieClip(this.parent).play();

    }

     
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    Apr 21, 2012 3:08 PM   in reply to 1richard1
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    does this part of your code work:

     

    play_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, fl_Click_Play);

     

     

    function fl_Click_Play(event:MouseEvent):void

    {

        MovieClip(this.parent).play();

    }

     
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    Apr 22, 2012 5:26 AM   in reply to kglad
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    nope this come up

     

    TypeError: Error #1034: Type Coercion failed: cannot convert flash.display::Stage@391ec089 to flash.display.MovieClip.

              at finalproject_fla::MainTimeline/fl_Click_Play()

     
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    Apr 22, 2012 6:43 AM   in reply to 1richard1
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    if you're trying to get the main timeline to play with that code, use:

     

    play_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, fl_Click_Play);

     

     

    function fl_Click_Play(event:MouseEvent):void

    {

       MovieClip(this.root).play();

    }

     
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    Apr 22, 2012 12:35 PM   in reply to kglad
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    i put that but it dnt play whats i selected on the timeline

     
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    Apr 22, 2012 7:11 PM   in reply to 1richard1
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    if you have a number of movieclips on the main timeline that you want to play, you can assign them to an array and loop through the array to play them.  if you want all the movieclips on the main timeline to play, you can use:

     

    playAll(MovieClip(root));

     

    function playAll(mc.MovieClip):void{

    for(var i:int=0;i<mc.numChildren;i++){

    if(mc.getChildAt(i) is MovieClip){

    MovieClip(mc.getChildAt(i)).play();

    }

    }

    }

     
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    10. 1richard1,
    Apr 22, 2012 8:20 PM   in reply to kglad
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    what about making a playhead so when it hits the movieclip thats on the timeline it plays the same movieclip in the preview box?

     
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    Apr 23, 2012 3:10 AM   in reply to 1richard1
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    did that last answer resolve your  "making play button to play different clips" issue?

     

    if so, mark that answer as correct and start a new thread for new issues.

     
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