3 Replies Latest reply: Sep 6, 2008 8:38 AM by robin1232 RSS

    Cycled ad problems

    PlsFlashMe
      I have a question about the flash ad on this site. Please forgive me if i incorrectly explain the question I am asking. Im finding it difficult to explain what im trying to ask.
      FIrst I must explain how this ad is working so the question i am asking will make more sense.

      In the next paragraphs this is the flash ad I am referring to http://www.sonicelectronix.com/
      This flash ad on the top that cycles through ads 1-4
      on frame one is ad #1.. on frame 120 is ad #2 on frame 240 is ad #3 and on frame 360 is ad #4. I also have a frame label on each of these 4 ads of 1-4. SO frame one also has a frame lable of 1. This is so my buttons on the bottom of this ad when rolled over will go to whatever frame label of the ad button that is rolled over.

      This is how i have the buttons set up
      Button one would be;

      on(rollOver){
      gotoAndStop("1");
      }
      on(rollOut){
      gotoAndPlay("1");
      }


      Ok now for the question. What i need is to be able to animate something between these frames. The problem I am having is that If i create a movie clip the only way I can use it is if i want it to run in a continuous loop. Perfect example of this would be ad # 2 in this flash example. the background is a movie clip that just repeats. But what if i dont want it to? I cannot do a stop() function on the movie clip because this causes my whole time line to also stop at the end of playing whatever movie clip that had the stop() function in it.
      I want to be able to make my buttons animate or have an animation in these ads that doesn't have to loop. Example of this http://www.directv.com/DTVAPP/index.jsp when you mouse over a button on their flash Ad the button will pop up a preview and then stop. If i were to do this it would repeat that pop up animation over and over unless i put the Stop() but if i do that it will stop everything and also stop my ad from cycling. Am I making any sense? I don't know if there is a better function i should be using... or if I just have this whole thing set up incorrectly in the first place. Maybe there is option for call movie clip for given duration of time then move on to another one ? Please any help would be greatly appreciated. I can also send a working example if my explanation of this is not very good. Thanks to anyone that can help me out.