Multiple Button & Movie Clips

[Rickb]

I have 3 Buttons that control 3 Movie Clips. 1 Button controls only one Movie Clip. Each Movie Clip runs for 7 seconds. The problems is if I click all 3 buttons inside the 7 seconds all 3 Movie Clip will be playing together.

If someone clicks the button quickly I want the present Movie Clip to stop and the new one start. In other words I only want one Movie Clip to be able to play at once.

I know this can be done, but I need some help please...Thanks

[davidmasterson]

you could define a function on the main timeline

function PlayMovie(ToPlay)
{
movie1.GotoAndStop(1);
movie2.GotoAndStop(1);
movie3.GotoAndStop(1);
ToPlay.play();
}

and on the button for movie1 put

on(release){
_root.PlayMovie(Movie1)
}

and on the button for movie2 put

on(release){
_root.PlayMovie(Movie2)
}

hope this helps

David
[Edited by davidmasterson on 01-13-2002 at 03:12 PM]

[nash00]

when a button is pressed just make the other two movies gotoAndPlay(1);

i suppose you already have a stop() action on the first frame on each movie.