stop movie on certain frame in timeline??

[Captain Planet]

Hi.

I wondered if there is a way of generating a random number on frame one (say, 23), then play the movie and it stop on frame 23??

Thanks.

[jbum]

Here's one way to do it. It assumes the movie in question is called 'mc'.

code:

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mc.frameToStop = 1+random(mc._totalframes);



mc.onEnterFrame = function()

{

   if (this._currentframe == this.frameToStop)

   {

     stop();

   }

}



mc.play();

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[Captain Planet]

wehay, perfect jbum. Thanks.

[Captain Planet]

Hi jbum.

I used the script, and it generates the random frame fine, but the movie doesn't stop!!

I tried changing it to 'dice1.stop();' but that didn't work either. Any idea why?

Thanks.

[Captain Planet]

sorry....where 'dice1' is used in place of 'mc'.

In frame 1, I have dice1.stop();

and then in a button, I have:

on (release) {
	dice1.frameToStop = 1+random(dice1._totalframes);
	this.onEnterFrame = function()
	{
	if (dice1._currentframe == this.frameToStop)
        {
                stop();
        }
	}
	dice1.play();
}

it just playes the movie over and over and over again.......

[jshpro2]

Try changing this.onEnterFrame to dice.onEnterFrame...
I'm not an expert on flash but it looks like you are doing the onEnterFrame function on a button rather then the movie clip you are attempting to stop