fast forward button

[matthigg]

Trying to make video controls for flash mc.

They control the timeline of an mc on a higher level using - goto and play current frame +8.

They work fine except rather than stopping at the end of the mc timeline it skips back to the beginning of the sequence. Have tried various ways of rectifying this (ie setting variable for _totalframes of target level and trying to make fast forward not excede this number), none of which work.

any ideas? shouldn't be that difficult but I just can't make it work.

thanks in advance

[HowardTheDuck]

hm... try this

if ((MC._currentframe + 8) < MC._totalframes)
MC.gotoAndPlay (MC._currentframe + 8);
else
MC.gotoAndStop (MC._totalframes);

but i think you already did that... try increasing 8 to 9 - it could be that flash continues playing while the check is done...

Yours
HTD

[matthigg]

howie old boy,

this is just the kind of thing I've been trying. Should have mentioned I'm using flash 4 (wrong forum I know).

currently using:

Set Variable: "/:current" = GetProperty ("_level2", _currentframe )
Set Variable: "/:end" = GetProperty ("_level2", _totalframes )
If ((/:current+9)</:end)
Begin Tell Target ("_level2")
Go to and Play (_currentframe+8)
End Tell Target
Else
Begin Tell Target ("_level2")
Go to and Stop ("end")
End Tell Target
End If

global variables not necessary I know just out of desperation. have tried many variations on this(getproperty etc.).

annoying thing is this - if I replace /:end with a numeric value it works fine but I want this to be a generic piece of script to work with mc's of different lengths. currently not picking up _totalframes?

any more ideas

catto

[HowardTheDuck]

Well i started as a C++ programmer and when it came to flash 4 i totally refused to program anything for it... I mean you see the difference don't you

okay your problem could be that _level2 has actually got more totalframes than your MC.... use the MCs instance name instead. Does the trace () command work for flash 4?? if so try to figure out what values the /:end and /:current really have... like:

trace (/:end);

If you have Flash 5 just do my thing and export as Flash 4...
Yours
HTD

[matthigg]

thank you so much for your help, you got to the root of the problem.

someone working on the project before me had inserted extra scene without assets that were adding to the _totalframes, hence the problem.

trace function helped me locate this discrepancy.

thanks again,

catto