Trouble attaching movie

[rickaclark]

I have a movie that has pictures on individual frames. I am trying to attach a movie that fades in frame1, waits a specified period of time then moves to frame 2. Unfortunately, I can't get the movie to work right. When I place a stop(); in the actions pane the fader doesn't work. However, the setInterval(); function moves to the next frame. If I remove the stop(); the attached fader movie works on the second frame instead of the first frame.

Here is my code:

stop();
onEnterFrame = function(){
_root.attachmovie("fader", "fader", 1); //Loads a fader movie over the pic
this._y = 0;
this._x = 0;
}


function wait() { // a function called 'wait'
_root.nextFrame();
clearInterval(myTimer);

// the action you want, in this case a trace.
}
myTimer = setInterval(wait, 7000); // calls the function after 1 second


How do I get the Fader movie to play on frame 1, then move to frame2?

[deepakflash]

Are you having a "fade animation" happening inside your "fader" clip? if yes, then i am assuming that your fade animation ends in the last frame of your "fader" clip.

stop();
_root.attachMovie("fader","fader",1);
fader._x=fader._y=0;  // This will place your "fader" to postion Zero
this.onEnterFrame=function(){
if(fader._currentframe==fader._totalframes){
myTimer = setInterval(wait, 1000); // Note: its 1000 and NOT 7000
delete this.onEnterFrame;
}
function wait(){
_root.nextFrame();
clearInterval(myTimer);
}

[rickaclark]

Yes, the fade ends on the last frame of the fader movie. Excellent. I had to move the my time line to the bottom so the frame would wait a set amount of time before it moved to the next frame.

On a separate note, now that I am attaching the fader movie, there is a mask on layer four and I would like this fader movie to attach under the mask. I tried using the following code:

fader_mc.setMask(newMask_mc);

where I am attaching the fader_mc movie and using newMask_mc which is not attached but part of the main movie. What am I doing wrong?


Thanks for your help.
Rick

[deepakflash]

is it fader or fader_mc?

The above code uses "fader". So you must be using :

fader.setMask(newMask_mc);

Make sure both fader and newMask_mc are "present" when you are using setMask

[deepakflash]

^^

[rickaclark]

The adobe live docs says both movies must have the *_mc extention in order for the mask to work. So, I renamed fader to fader_mc and checked to see the original movie still works. I then tried getting the setmask script to work, with no such luck.

[deepakflash]

did you try :

fader.setMask(newMask_mc); // name your masking movieclip "newMask_mc"


And let your attachMovie be the same as before:

_root.attachMovie("fader","fader",1);

[rickaclark]

I found out that the movie and the mask must be loaded before declaring the setmask line, ie:

stop();

_root.attachMovie("fader_mc","fader_mc", 10, {_x:0, _y:0});
_root.attachMovie("newMask_mc", "newMask_mc", 20, {_x:0, _y:0});

this.onEnterFrame=function(){
if(fader_mc._currentframe==fader_mc._totalframes){
delete this.onEnterFrame;
}}
fader_mc.setMask(newMask_mc);
function wait(){
_root.nextFrame();
clearInterval(myTimer);
}
myTimer = setInterval(wait, 7000); // Note: its 1000 and NOT 7000

[deepakflash]

On a separate note, now that I am attaching the fader movie, there is a mask on layer four

You did not tell me that you are attaching your masking clip from library.

[rickaclark]

You did not tell me that you are attaching your masking clip from library.

Originally, I wasn't attaching my my masking clip from the library. After reading more about it, I noticed several people were attaching both movies. I also discovered that where you placed the setMask line made a difference.

So, I thought I would try attaching both movies and placing the setMask after attaching the movies and it worked.

Thanks for your help.