1 Movieclip starting another AS3

[janine82]

Ok so in in the transitional stage to AS3 (still i know)

I have 2 MovieClips onstage both with a short animation in them. MovieClip2 has the stop(); on its first frame.
When movieClip1 gets to the end of its timeline I want it to start movieClip2 playing.

HOW do i do this?

parent.movieClip2.gotoAndPlay(2); doesnt work.

DO i need evenetlisteners or something??

[neznein9]

In your last frame of MC1:

stop();
dispatchEvent(new Event('mc1Ended')); 

And in the main timeline (or whatever holds both clips):

movieClip1.addEventListener('mc1Ended', startMC2);

function startMC2(e:Event):void{
    movieClip2.play();
    movieClip1.removeEventListener('mc1Ended', startMC2);
} 

[marlopax]

Try this
You don't need to write any code inside of those MovieClip/s. Nor have to give any instance name if all of the MovieClip of the stage will go for nextLoop animation.

var arr:Array=new Array();
var nextIndex:int;

for (var i=0; i<this.numChildren; i++) {
    arr.push(this.getChildAt(i).name);
    var mc=MovieClip(this.getChildByName(arr[i]));
    mc.stop();
    mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,mouseClickHandler);
}

trace(arr);

function listenHandler(evt:Event):void {
    if (evt.target.currentFrame==evt.target.totalFrames) {
        evt.target.stop();
        MovieClip(this.getChildByName(arr[nextIndex])).play();
        index(MovieClip(this.getChildByName(arr[nextIndex])));
    }
}
function mouseClickHandler(evt:MouseEvent):void {
    index(evt.target);
    evt.target.play();
    evt.target.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME,listenHandler);
}
function index(mc) {
    if (arr.indexOf(mc.name)==arr.length-1) {
        nextIndex=0;
    } else {
        nextIndex++;
    }
}

marlopax