Date based frame selection

[Ashek]

Greetings!

And long time no see! I created this account about 10 years ago, but haven't visited in years... I can't even remember if I posted all that much or if I mostly ghosted, but I frequented regularly. Unfortunately my skill set is WAY outdated, (as in Macromedia) but when I stumbled across Flash Kit today while trying to freshen up, I knew this would be the place! Glad to see the forums are alive and well. I'm glad to be back!

Now I hope this is the right place to be asking said question, besides the occasional stop command I haven't really dabbled with scripting.

I'm working on an animation for a HyperSpin theme that I want to have display a different series of graphics depending on what season it is. I was hoping there was some way I could set variables for certain segments of dates and then based off those, have Flash jump to a pre-determined frame when the animation starts. Sadly this is WAY beyond my skill level, and I am hoping that someone could help me out, or at the very least point me in the right direction. Most of what I've found involved showing the current date/time within the animation which doesn't really help me out.

Anyway, thank you for any and all help!

-Ashek

[fruitbeard]

Hi,
This might give you a start.

import flash.display.MovieClip;

var today:Date = new Date();
var nowMonth:Number = today.getMonth();
var trueMonth:Number = nowMonth + 1;
var months:Array = new Array("January","February","March","April","May","June","July","August","September","October","November","December");

var movieClip:MovieClip = new MovieClip();

trace(nowMonth + " : Array month");
trace(trueMonth + " : True month");
trace(months[nowMonth] + " : Month name");

if (trueMonth < 4)
{
    movieClip.gotoAndStop(1);
}

if (trueMonth > 3 && trueMonth < 7)
{
    movieClip.gotoAndStop(2);
}

if (trueMonth > 6 && trueMonth < 10)
{
    movieClip.gotoAndStop(3);
}

if (trueMonth > 9)
{
    movieClip.gotoAndStop(4);
}