please help before i go insane

[RedAbode]

well you see i wanted to create the effect where a man jumps from one button to another and i am trying to do this!! but i got stumped i cannot make a motion tween because my scene will just move in the direction the man is so i made it a different way with lots of keyframe of the man jumping please someone help .. Angelfire.com is hosting my files so i am not allowed direct links so to get the swf file type in your browser address http://www.angelfire.com/az3/blueblueclues/button.swf
to get the fla file type
http://www.angelfire.com/az3/blueblueclues/button.fla

(Copy and paste the above links into your address bar)

please help me! i want to no why when my mouse is over the button the man only jumps to the second keyframe and not continuing!!!!! i am fed up and about to through my computer out the window because i just don't get it.

[RedAbode]

hello! anyone???!!?!?!??!?

[nucleuz]

First of all: 25 min between your posts! Let people get a chance to check it out first!

Well; i downloaded the file, and found one button script repeated over all your frames:

on(rollOver){
gotoAndStop(2);
}

How are you planning on going from frame 2 -> 10??

make a movie clip with just the animation on it from frame 1->10 (as you have) , drag it to the scene and name it "man", drag a button to the stage and attach the following to it:

on(rollOver){
    tellTarget("_root.man"){
        gotoAndPlay(2);
    }
}

That should do it
[Edited by nucleuz on 04-26-2002 at 08:43 PM]

[RedAbode]

Well i fixed one of my problems before your replie went up what i did was add play (); to each frame of the man n take away the
on(rollOver){
gotoAndStop(2);
}
on all of them but the first

but i am still stuck with a man that can only jump to one destination i need it to be scrolling throughout the buttons i could try to find a way.... can you help me make the man able to move from button to button as many times or do i have to start from scratch again? this is only a draft so it's all good

[nucleuz]

Make the jumping from each buton to button in the movie clip (each 10the frame, and add a stop on frame 10, 20++)
then register a variable telling where the man was seen last : "last_button = first" <-- on the first frame of the movie. then when you click on button 2 (and the man is on button 1):

on(press){
   if(_root.last_button eq "first"){
       gotoAndPlay(2);
   }else if _root.last_button eq "third"){
        gotoAndPlay(21); //jump from third to second
   }
}

and when you want it to jump from first to third button:

on(press){
    if(_root.last_button eq "first"){ //man starts at first button
        _root.dont_stop_at_second = "yes";
        gotoAndPlay(2);
    }
}

and then on frame 10 (where he lands at the second button) have a check :

if(_root.dont_stop_at_second eq "yes"){
    //do nothing -> continiue to jump
}else{
    stop();
}

The rest should be easy to figuree out.

[RedAbode]

i understand but when i go to Test Movie it says;

Symbol=Symbol 1, Layer=Layer 1, Frame=1: Line 4: '(' expected
}else if _root.last_button eq "third"){

Symbol=Symbol 1, Layer=Layer 1, Frame=1: Line 16: Unexpected 'and' encountered
and then on frame 10 (where he lands at the second button) have a check :

[nucleuz]

Line 4: '(' expected
I didn't say I would code it correctly when I just typed it in: that means you have to have a bracket like:
}else if( _root.last_button eq "third"){

For the second one: don't include my comments in the code
error: and then on frame 10 (where he lands at the second button) have a check