Help for a new guy please.

[MCROCKFORD]

http://www.rams-hill.freeserve.co.uk/flash/test.swf

Please look at the above. I only want to animation to start if your mouse pointer clicks on the menu button at the top right. It seems to loop. The animation is a movie clip symbol. Should it have been a button ?

[HumbuckeR]

Hi.

On the first frame of the animation movieclip (i'll call it animMC) put this:

stop();

on the menu put this:

code:

---

on (release){

tellTarget(_root.animMC){

play();

}

}

---

Never tested it but should work.

[MCROCKFORD]

Tried that and no luck. Stops looping but when you click on the button nothing happens.

[snorepez]

Is this what you wanted? You were trying to call a movieclip that wasn't on the stage. Also, don't use tellTarget; simply use gotoAndPlay();

[MCROCKFORD]

That's great just what I wanted, but how did you get it onto the stage ?

[snorepez]

Get what onto the stage? I didn't really move anything except for the code.

[MCROCKFORD]

on (release) {
_root.Explode.gotoAndPlay(2);
}

Oh I see the Explode section above refers to the label I have given the movie clip. Cool thanks

Regards

Martin.

[MCROCKFORD]

on (release) {
_root.Explode.gotoAndPlay(2);
}

Oh I see the Explode section above refers to the label I have given the movie clip. Cool, thanks

Regards

Martin.

[snorepez]

Well, it's the Instance Name of the movieclip...but same concept

Take care

[MCROCKFORD]

Many thanks mate.

Take care