mouseover/mouseout looping

[WWFC]

hi all,

hoping that someone can give me the answer to this problem that i have.

i have a very basic animation (20 frames) which i want to only play/loop when the mouse rolls over the invisible button which is overlaying the animation area...

but... for the life of me i can't remember the correct action script that will tell the movie to play and loop when mouse is over the button - and when the mouse moves away/out from the button to keep playing until it reaches frame 20 and then just stop back on frame 1...

do you know what i mean? so on mouseover loop the animation - but on mouse out from the button play the remainder of the timeline and 'then'
stop...

in my original timeline i had a stop action on the first frame and a goto and play frame 2 action on frame 20 - with the button simply having the action rollover = play and rollout = stop... which was okay but i want the animation to play the remaining frames regardless of how many are left on mouse out...

anyone know the easiest way of doing this please?

;-)

[fruitbeard]

Hi,

Perhaps you could make something of this

clip.stop();

var doTimeCheck:Number = setInterval(checkMouse, 10);

function checkMouse():Void
{
    if (button.hitTest(_xmouse, _ymouse, true))
    {
        clip.play();
    }
    else
    {
        if (clip._currentframe >= clip._totalframes)
        {
            clip.gotoAndStop(1);
            //clearInterval(doTimeCheck);
        }
    }
} 

that is without seeing your set up

[WWFC]

hi fruitbeard,

thanks for the reply - appreciate it ;-)
i was hoping for something simpler - as the end product will run as a swiffy object - so that is why i was trying to keep it frame/timeline/button based...

i remember doing something similar many many moons ago - but have no idea what it was or how i did it!!!!

but grateful for you taking time to reply amigo

;-)

[fruitbeard]

Hi,

Just remove the clip parts

stop();

var doTimeCheck:Number = setInterval(checkMouse, 10);

function checkMouse():Void
{
    if (button.hitTest(_xmouse, _ymouse, true))
    {
        play();
    }
    else
    {
        if (_currentframe >= _totalframes)
        {
            gotoAndStop(1);
        }
    }
} 

couldnt be more simple really, I just tested it using swiffy too.
I admit there are other ways of doing it too.

[WWFC]

okay - i'll give it a whirl - that is great !!! and very kind of you to help me out...

i agree there must be other ways - but... if this does the job then that's the one for me!!! lol!

thanks fruitbeard

[WWFC]

works a treat!!!!!!!!!! whoop whoop!!!! thankyou