?Click Button to Play Movie Clip?

Ok I am working on a project that I have three movie clips animate onto the stage.

I then have 3 buttons come up correlating with each movie clip.

How do I script the buttons to play the movie clips?

The movie clips are embeded FLV files just fyi.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Thank you ahead of time, I REALLY APPRECIATE THESE BOARDS!!!

From what I can make out you need to look into localconnection.

I have just posted a similar scenario where I need to control an external swf containing .f4v and setup a btn action in main swf to do so.

btn action send and receive code is at btm. HTH

http://board.flashkit.com/board/show...28#post4273528

Hmm, sound like it could work. Now to wade through the code.

Thanks for the heads up.

I don't think that I should need all this though.

All I need is a click to play script. The FLV is embedded into the timeline inside the movie clip.

Are the localconnections necessary?

localconnection is used to communicate between multiple swiff files that don't share a common swiff parent - usually between multiple swiffs housed in an html document.

to play an FLV, i assume you have it in an FLVPlayback component. give that instance on the stage a name (e.g., myVideo) then call the play() method. to add click behavior to a button, you must also give the button an instance name (e.g., myButton) and then use the addEventListener() method.

PHP Code:

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myButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, playVid, false, 0, true);
function playVid(event:MouseEvent):void {
  myVideo.play();
} 


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