Re: FLASH: Advance a number of frames

[Paul Hagwood]

> I think you'd need to tell us "what you want" so

that we could tell you why

> you want to avoid using Labels.  I see labels as

being the most effective

> way to do something, however, if you could tell my

why this wouldn't work, I

> would be able to better assist with the answer to

the question.  I'd think,

> if you are using F4, that you should be able to

move forward a specific

> number of frames.

> 

> Is this a "dice" type thing?  There's another way

to workaround that, if

> that is the case.

> 

> Sounds like some sort of an RPG, to me, so I think

there's still more info

> needed...

> 

> Russ

> 


Here is the situation, I'm creating this file the

hard way, I know that, but I'm not a programmer so I

have to do things the hard way and then gradually

build up to understanding how I can do it with

scripts (cause I learn really slow). With that said,

let me try to explain:

I have a movieclip called "mouth" which is the mouth

of a figures face (yes, I'm talking about the

virtualdoll) and I want the mouth to animate

depending on what the user clicks on. Sounds simple

but there is a problem, I have created the ability

for the user to change the doll's race (because I

love all my bothers and sisters no matter what

race!). That means there are now two mouths that

could be present at any given time (and I may add

more, asian or whatever). Perhaps there is a string

of variables that could be written to know when the

user has chosen "black mouth" or "white mouth" or

whatever, but I don't know how to do that and it will

probably take me a while to learn...

So what I have going on right now is I have buttons

that do two actions when clicked. 1. they telltarget

"mouth" to advance one frame 2. telltarget "mouth" to

'play' 

What this does is it makes it so that no matter which

mouth they have chosen they will still see the same

basic animation. I realized if I could do the same

action but control the number of frames it moves and

then tell it to play, I could have other animations.

So for example at this time when it does the above

action, she smiles, but if I wanted her to blow a

kiss, I would have to have it move to a different

point in the timeline. The reason it isn't being done

with a label is the label would only work with one of

the mouths so they would make "black" doll blow a

kiss with "white" doll's mouth. We can't have that

now, can we? 


Like I said, the hard way, but if I can create a

action which does two simple things, I will open a

whole new world. 1. telltarget "x" advance "#" frames

2. telltarget "x" "play" then I'll have a action at

the end that sends it back to the starting position

and 'poof' smiles, kisses, frowns, whatever!! 


If anyone can help, I'll love you forever! 


If you want the URL for the doll, write me and you

can see what I mean. 


===

Paul Hagwood

Web Design and Multimedia

http://hagwood2.home.mindspring.com/


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