Re: FLASH: v.4 feature?

[Colin Moock]

flashershocker [dot] com

,Internet writes:


>>Anyone have any thoughts on achieving this easily...it seems a shame to

>>cut'n'paste frames and pull a "Reverse Frames".


>Make a movie clip that contains nothing but the following:


>frame one: stop

>frame two: tell target path/to/instanceName

>		goto previous frame


>frame three: goto and play frame 2


>If you want to control the main timeline, just use "/" as the instance name.


>Then control that movie clip from the appropriate frames or buttons in your

>movie.


>Alternately, to make your clip go backwards a certain number of frames you

>could duplicate frame two of the above the appropriate number of times.


Clever Eric. In some cases it will be more hand work than a "Play in Reverse"

action would be, but it's a great workaround for now.  I'm always amazed at

what scripting-type things can be done with MCs with some thinking and a lot of

hand-crafting.  Thanks for the approach.


colin


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