Re: FLASH: LOOP AND TIMER ???????

[Marc Hoffman]

At 01:26 PM 3/11/99 +0100, you wrote:

>Hi,

>

>I need to make a traditional Flash  movie wich in interactive - so far

>no problem

>I also need to make a timer function/script that trough the whole movie

>cheks for a time out period

>of some minutes.

>So if the user didn't touch the mouse for a period, a "loop-mode" of the

>movie happens.

>When the user touches the mouse, we come back to the mainscreen or

>something.


There was a similar question last week that I responded to.  Was it yours?

See if you can adapt this, it's similar in principle to what you need:


>I need to check out if the mouse isn't touched for some time, (in a

>Flash presentatie)

>If the time-out occours, then some sort of looping animation must

>happen.(another movie)

>When the mouse is than touched again, you come back again on the place

>you where.


This is one of those complex things that can be done in Flash but you may

find it tedious.


Create a timer MC (as many frames as you want the timer to last).  In the

last frame have a frame action that makes the time-out animation occur.

This could be a TellTarget to the main timeline, making it move to the

animation, or it could be a TellTarget to another MC that is stopped in a

blank frame. 


Drag the timer MC to the stage and give it the instance name timeout.


Create a small rectangular invisible button (that is, make a button with a

rectangle in the hit area and no graphics in the up, over, and down

frames), drag it onto the stage, double-click it and give it this action:

On RollOut

	Begin Tell Target (target: /timeout)

		GoTo and Play frame 1

	End Tell Target

End On


Now copy this invisible button so that the copies cover the entire stage area.


Whenever the mouse rolls out of one of these invisible buttons, the timer

will reset to zero.  If the mouse doesn't roll out, the timer MC will play

to the end and start the animation.





Marc Hoffman

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