RE: FLASH: Reversing Movie Clips

[Rob Brewster]

Mark,


Thanks so much for taking the time to solve that one for me.  I knew there

would be a way to do it but I just couldn't get my head around it this

morning.  You're a champ :)


I will play around with your instructions below and let you know if it works

OK, it certainly sounds like it will.


Cheers

Rob


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> -----Original Message-----

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From: ownershocker [dot] com [ownershocker [dot] com]On">mailto:ownershocker [dot] com]On Behalf Of Marc

> Hoffman

> Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 1998 4:14 PM

>

To: flashershocker [dot] com

> Subject: Re: FLASH: Reversing Movie Clips

>

>

> At 10:24 AM 11/18/98 +1000, you wrote:

> >I'm just doing some experimenting today to throw a few ideas I

> have around.

> >Currently I have a 500 frame movie clip that basically scolls a

> raster image

> >from right to left.

> >

> >I'm using Tell Target to start and stop this scrolling effect

> with buttons,

> >but what I would like to do is have another button allow users

> to scroll the

> >image left to right (ie. reverse)

>

> Hi Rob.

>

> Okay, I had to test this to see if it would work, and it does:

>

> Your main movie clip has instance name of action clip. Drop it onto the

> main timeline.

> Create a clip with an instance name "forward clip". Give it a park frame

> (empty, stopped), labeled "Park." Follow this with  a few frames each with

> the action Tell Target ../action clip Go to next frame.  Label

> the first of

> these frames "play." The last of these frames should have an extra action,

> "Go To and Play label: Play," so that once this clip leaves the parked

> frame it just keeps looping and telling the action clip to move forward a

> frame at a time.

> Create a similar clip but call it reverse and call its instance "reverse

> clip."  It has an identical structure to the forward clip except replace

> all "Go to next frame" actions with "go to previous frame."

> Make a Play button and put it on the main timeline.  On rollover it tells

> /reverse clip to park itself.  It tells /forward clip to go to and play

> label:play. On rollout it tells /forward clip to park itself.

> Make a Reverse button and put it on the main timeline.  On rollover it

> tells /forward clip to park itself and tells /reverse clip to go to

> label:play and play.  On rollout it tells /reverse clip to park itself.

> If this doesn't work, I haven't described it accurately.  Email

> me and I'll

> send you the Flash file (18k).

>

> Thanks for the challenge.  It was fun.

>

>

> Marc Hoffman

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