Flash problem still driving me NUTS!

**autumn whispers2me** · 06-09-2005, 02:44 AM

I have a movie I'm building. I have a couple of movie clips, but I want one of them to STOP at the end of their sequence, if that makes sense, and the others to keep looping (music, and layers with small, but continuous animations).

is this even possible, because I can't get this to happen at all. Part of the problem is that I don't understand what to use (actionscript-wise) in the movie clip section of the actionscript panel. I know I can use STOP in the AS movie panel, but that stops everything but the music...which needs to keep playing in this case.

So I use STOP as an AS for the movie, the animations I want to keep going stop. But nothing I've done so far has kept the clips looping AND stopped one clip as I want.

Make sense? lol

Help?

**Sean** · 06-09-2005, 03:06 AM

hmm kinda,
first to have the music continue when the video stops, the audo and video will have to be 2 seperate files if this is not already the case.

I usually use alot of layers on top of each other, so that i can continue one screne while stopping another at one point.

on one layer maybe the top have it repeatable and then on the 2nd layer add the stop actionsript.

Playing around with Flash is the best way to learn, i spent hours with issues like loading and unloading movies and now i pretty much have it figured.

**autumn whispers2me** · 06-09-2005, 03:16 AM

Strangely, the music starts and stops when it's supposed to. I don't have any STOP actionscript anywhere at this point, though, and yes.. I do have everything in layers.

So you think I should just create a completely different flash file for the music? I thought part of the reason for putting all that together in Flash was to sync stuff? In this case, the music doesn't have to sync with anything, per se... just play in the background.

Or is it you're saying I should create a sound-only Flash file and set an actionscript to load the file at some point?

But the animation I want to stop---how do I set it to stop while everything else keeps going? STOP, under movie AS choices, stops everything right there at that point. Everything else I've tried just keeps that layer looping, which looks ridiculous.

**Sean** · 06-09-2005, 03:32 AM

You will need to post an example of the SWF to give a better answer.

All the above steps u mentioned could work, but it all depends on how its designed etc.

**autumn whispers2me** · 06-09-2005, 03:48 AM

I'll make a page with the swf file on it.... I guess I'll leave that layer looping that I don't want to loop... it's going to look like dookie, though. Right now the whole movie's cheesy looking (in the early stages..).

Also, I have another movie I'm stuck on because I'm trying to get a layer to fade in... but the layer just pops in suddenly no matter what I do.

**Sean** · 06-09-2005, 04:01 AM

with that problem create a tween first and then the keyframe.

So instead of creating a keyframe at 1 and then another at 10 and then tweening them.

Create a keyframe at 1, created the tween so u see a dotted line, and the create the keyframe at 10.

**autumn whispers2me** · 06-09-2005, 04:07 AM

Thanks, Griff. I *think* I tried that, but I'll try it again just to be sure. No telling with me.