How do I resume animation on mouse click?

[johnb25407957]

I created a simple animation of water flowing through pipes and need it to pause at certain points then resume on a mouse click. How do I do that with actionscript 3.0?

[kglad]

either place stop() on the water movieclip's timeline where you want that pause or use an enterframe loop to repeatedly check that movieclips currentFrame.

[johnb25407957]

Thank you for that, but then how do I resume with a mouse click?

[Ned Murphy · Accepted solution]

Use the play() command in the event handler...

resumeBtn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, resumeAnimation);

function resumeAnimation(evt:MouseEvent):void {

       play();

}

If you do not have a button for this and just want to click anywhere try changing the event listener to...

stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, resumeAnimation);

[johnb25407957]

Awesome! Thank you very much! I needed the click anywhere code snippet.