get next frame?

[Cyrael]

is there anyway in AS that you can automatically get the next frame when called? Much like _root.getNextHighestDepth works, is there any way to do this? I want it so that on each press the frame is stopped and then when it is pressed again it advances to the next frame.

[Schfifty Five]

You mean like... _root._currentframe+1?

[Cyrael]

well I have something on the frame and i want it to play that something like

this is inside a onKeydown fuction:
_root.MC.nextFrame();

but when i do this the key down press only advances the frame once, and I want it to advance the frame each time the key is pressed

[Schfifty Five]

Can you post the entire code?

[Cyrael]

code:

---

if((clipArray[i]._y + clipArray[i]._height) >= (btn[0]._y + 17) && clipArray[i]._y <= (btn[0]._y + btn[0]._height - 20)){

			if(Key.isDown(49)){

				if(movX[i] > btn[0]._x && movX[i] < (btn[0]._x + btn[0]._width)){

					clipArray[i]._alpha = 0;

					//sound up

					fade=90;

					_root.Status.nextFrame();

}

---

This controls one of the button presses and the particular part that i want is the _root.Status.nextFrame.

The whole code is 180 lines long. so posting the whole thing would not be efficient.

[Cyrael]

i need it to advance to the next frame every time key 40 (button 1) is pressed.

[Schfifty Five]

How about something like:

keyPressed = false;
this.onEnterFrame = function() {
	if (Key.isDown(49) && !keyPressed) {
		keyPressed = true;
		_root.nextFrame();
	} else if(!Key.isDown(49)){
		keyPressed = false;
	}
};

[Cyrael]

thanks i'll try it

[Cyrael]

see the problem is that I have attached the MC through AS so it's not just placed on the screen, so I can't put code on it, I have to do it like this

_root.MC.nextFrame();

and when I do this it advances once, but dosn't work any more than once.

[Schfifty Five]

Would _root.MC.gotoAndStop(_root.MC._currentframe+1) work?

[Cyrael]

nope didn't work. sorry it took so long to get back i just go through spurts on working on this thing.

any other suggestions?

[scottPadgett]

_root.MC.gotoAndStop(_root._currentframe + 1);

you're trying to move everything along to next frame on the main timeline right?

[Cyrael]

nope I just need one movieclip to advance to the next frame every time a button is pushed. it works once but then stops working.

[scottPadgett]

your conditional is still met after the first execution? is it possible the conditional no longer evaluates true, and thus just doesn't run again?

[Cyrael]

AHH! i just figured it out, whats happening is it's going true and staying true, therefore it can't go to the next because it never gets to false again, is this a possibility?

[scottPadgett]

cool. i thought it might be that...