Smooth Movie Clip Playing

[Loomer1000]

I did a couple of searches and I couldn't quite find what I was looking for....

It's probably pretty simple.. I just what to a have a movie clip (for a button) play forward on a mouseover and play backward on a mouseout.. I don't want there to be any jump in frames. Basically the movieclip will play smoothly even if the mouseout occurs in the middleframes of the movie clip..

Sorry for the longwinded explanation.

Thanks.

[oldnewbie]

This is probably what you're looking for...

http://odin.prohosting.com/~oldnew/buttontest.swf

Was written in Flash 4 syntax...

Start with this, and if I can find it, will post a newer MX version tomorrow...

[Loomer1000]

Beautiful! Thanks for the help.

[Loomer1000]

If you could post an updated version for MX that would be great too.. I'm just trying to figure out the older actionscript.

Thanks.

[oldnewbie]

Here it is...

[Loomer1000]

Terrific! I really appreicate the help. I think I can do what I want now.

[caseywhitcher]

Hey folks, I'm pretty horrible with actionscript,

I'm trying to do this right now, and I can get this to work fine if I set it up exactly like this movie and only have 1 movieclip on the page that I need to reverse, but in my case I have 6 buttons I need to reverse.

here's the code I tried, (just for 2)

function doReverse() {
    _root.mybut1mc.onEnterFrame = function() {
        if (_root.mybut1mc._currentframe>2) {
            _root.mybut1mc.gotoAndStop(_root.mybut1mc._currentframe-1);
        } else {
            _root.mybut1mc.onEnterFrame = null;
        }
    };
}
mybut1.onRollOver = function() {
    _root.mybut1mc.onEnterFrame = null;
    _root.mybut1mc.play();
};
mybut1.onRollOut = mybut1.onDragOut=function () { _root.doReverse();};
mybut1.onPress = function() {
    trace("Yo!");
};
function doReverse() {
    _root.mybut2mc.onEnterFrame = function() {
        if (_root.mybut2mc._currentframe>2) {
            _root.mybut2mc.gotoAndStop(_root.mybut2mc._currentframe-1);
        } else {
            _root.mybut2mc.onEnterFrame = null;
        }
    };
}
mybut2.onRollOver = function() {
    _root.mybut2mc.onEnterFrame = null;
    _root.mybut2mc.play();
};
mybut2.onRollOut = mybut2.onDragOut=function () { _root.doReverse();};
mybut2.onPress = function() {
    trace("Yo!");
};
stop();

when I did this I got the mybut2 to work but the first one stopped.. I'm sure there is some basic coding problems.

thanks

[caseywhitcher]

Ok, never mind, I played with it and just made 6 different functions..

I think it works great now.

here's a link if anyone is interested.

http://www.glamourdog.com

(this is a holiday thing so it wont be up after the first of the year)