pausing movie clips

[junipe]

im having a problem with my pause button and basically my pause button is in my V-Cam so it can stay in the corner of the screen and it works in the main time line but any movie clip that is in the main time line still plays.the action script in the pause button is as follows

on (press) {
_root.stop();
}

can i change that so it will also stop movie clips from playing

[LonLonRanch]

Yes, but you would have to tell each movieClip individually to stop as well:

_root.otherMovieClip.stop();

_root.stop(); just tells the main timeline to stop, anything that is in its own timeline will keep on playing

[junipe]

At 8/20/08 03:34 PM, LonLonRanch wrote: Yes, but you would have to tell each movieClip individually to stop as well:

_root.otherMovieClip.stop();

_root.stop(); just tells the main timeline to stop, anything that is in its own timeline will keep on playing

so sould i just delete _root.stop(); or add that to it to make it

on (press) {
_root.stop();
_root.otherMovieClip.stop();
}

[junipe]

At 8/20/08 03:34 PM, LonLonRanch wrote: Yes, but you would have to tell each movieClip individually to stop as well:

_root.otherMovieClip.stop();

_root.stop(); just tells the main timeline to stop, anything that is in its own timeline will keep on playing

well then where do i at least put the code

[CaiWengi]

On your button

on(press) {
_root.movieclipinstancename.stop();
}

[junipe]

At 8/20/08 08:14 PM, CaiWengi wrote: On your button

on(press) {
_root.movieclipinstancename.stop();
}

but the problem is that only works for one movie clip is there a way i can change it so it can change it so it can stop all movie clips

[CaiWengi]

Something like this

on(press) {
 for(i in _root){
  if(_root[i].instanceof(MovieClip)){
     _root[i].stop();
  }
 }
}

[junipe]

At 8/20/08 08:14 PM, CaiWengi wrote: On your button

on(press) {
_root.movieclipinstancename.stop();
}

never mind i figured it out

[mooseisloose]

At 8/20/08 08:18 PM, junipe wrote: but the problem is that only works for one movie clip is there a way i can change it so it can change it so it can stop all movie clips

there are ways to do this which use far less code and are just far more professional............ however i am far from pro so this is the n00b way:

on (press) {
_root.stop();
_root.firstmovieclip.stop();
_root.secondmovieclip.stop();
_root.thirdmovieclip.stop();
_root.fourthmovieclip.stop();
}

and so on xD

[junipe]

actually if you could also tell me how toput script in buttons to make it jumpa certain number of frames either forward or backwards

[CaiWengi]

gotoAndPlay((_currentframe+5))

to go 5 in front

[junipe]

At 8/20/08 08:38 PM, CaiWengi wrote: gotoAndPlay((_currentframe+5))

to go 5 in front

its not working i posted it at this so it would work but twhen i click it nothing happens

on (press) {
_root.gotoAndPlay((_currentframe-5))
}

[mooseisloose]

on (press) {
_root.gotoAndPlay((_currentframe+=5));
}

obviously replace + with - to go back 5

[junipe]

At 8/20/08 08:53 PM, mooseisloose wrote: on (press) {
_root.gotoAndPlay((_currentframe+=5));
}

obviously replace + with - to go back 5

its not working when i click it i think all thats happening is its flashing a frame five frams ahead of it and gos back and continues playing

[mooseisloose]

That shouldn't be happening... if you trust me not to steal your work then you can send the .fla to me via e-mail and I can fix it... if not then try and explain everything, the total number of frames, what frame this button is on, what EXACTLY is happening etc