::Control MC with Variebles::

[kyp]

HI world,

I m using Flsh MX, and after I have bild a page with a moving background loop.
and menu loading pages in new window
i notice the problem that I am opening second page over the index
and the index is still looping...and taking CPU recurces
so...
i need some way to control a movie
to stop it on mouse action
and when u close the menu item
the background movie to start play from where waz stoped.
the problem is that can t get it how to get frame and then load it..
if anyone have met this situation plz mail me
the page is http://www.fcpublicidad.com

[jim2002]

I'm a newbie too - if none of the experts respond since it is late in the day try this.


I believe you give the moving background an instance name by clicking on the movie in the main timeline
Down in the bottom left hand corner of your properties box you can give it an instance name like MOVINGSTUFF and then use a command like in your other movie for example
on (press) {
movingstuff.stop();
}

[kyp]

hi jim 2002

10x for Ur advice
abiut the action
on (press) {
movingstuff.stop();
}
it is working for a specific mc, not for one mc witch contains many mc ....
so i just gave names to the differsnt mc in the main mc
and get them listed
on (press) {
movingstuff.stop();
movingstuff01.stop();
movingstuff02.stop();
movingstuff03.stop();
}
and then i gave them different Properties
and code look like this

on (press) {
sky01.stop();
mount01.stop();
casa01.stop();
palm01.stop();
mar01.stop();
sand01.stop();
mount02.stop();
mount03.stop();
mount04.stop();
//set mc properties on mouse action.
//setProperty("mount01", _alpha, "22");
//setProperty("casa01", _alpha, "22");
//setProperty("palm01", _alpha, "22");
//setProperty("mar01", _alpha, "22");
//setProperty("sand01", _alpha, "22");
//setProperty("mount02", _alpha, "22");
//setProperty("mount03", _alpha, "22");
//setProperty("mount04", _alpha, "22");
}

so u just use the comments
...
and here I got a new idea
how to make the change of the Property smooth?
from _alpha "100" to _alpha "22"
...
if u have any idea, the quest look interesting.

10x a lot jim

regards

[jim2002]

Glad some of what I said was useful. Hopefully a more advanced user will answer you soon. As for the alpha, you may want to start at 99 instead of 100 to make it smoother. Make sure all your items are on a full x and y pixel. (these are things I've read before - not sure how much of a difference it makes). I'm not sure if this would work or make a difference but perhaps a single mask over them all changing alpha might reduce CPU usage.