avatar - actionscript movement problem - help

[zor]

iv been working on a jabber-php-flash avatar chat for the last month so.

i desided the easyest (and smallest way) would be to have a master avatar clip.. and dupicate that and load there avatars into it. This compicates the movement a little because each clip has its own name rather then a given.

heres the basic layout

Complete Avatar [movie]
|
Avatar [movie] - Menu [hidden, movie] - control [movie, contols movment]

the control movie is where the problem is one of the first frames contains:

if (runtime == "stopped") {
with (_parent) {
trace("playing movie");
gotoAndPlay(3);
}
runtime = "playing";
}
if (_parent._x<= tox) {
if (_parent.avatar.face == "left") {
_parent.avatar._xscale = "-100";
_parent.avatar.face = "right";
}
setProperty(_parent, _x, _parent._x+8);
}
if (_parent._x>= tox) {
if (_parent.avatar.face == "right") {
_parent.avatar._xscale = "100";
_parent.avatar.face = "left";
}
setProperty(_parent, _x,_parent._x-8);
}
if (_parent._y<= toy) {
setProperty(_parent, _y, _parent._y+8);
}
if (_parent._y>= toy) {
setProperty(_parent, _y, _parent._y-8);
}


A few frames later we evaluate.. to deside if the movement is finished... if it is ..go to the first frame of the avatar.


if (_parent._x - 8 <= tox and _parent._x + 8 >= tox and _parent._y - 8 <= toy and _parent._y + 8 >= toy) {
with (_parent.avatar) {
trace("stoping movie");
gotoAndStop(1);
}
gotoAndStop(2);
} else {
gotoAndPlay(3);
}


Now, the problem is, when the control plays .. it restarts the full movie

anyone have any ideas on how to fix this .. or improve appon this script.

[zor]

....

Iv tryed everything i could think of.

[zor]

The restart problem lies in the start of the control unit...

newfrom = data.firstChild.attributes["from"]
newfrom = newfrom.replace(_root.message,"");
newfrom = newfrom.replace("/","");
set(newfrom + ".control.tox", data.firstChild.firstChild.attributes["x"]);
set(newfrom + ".control.toy", data.firstChild.firstChild.attributes["y"]);

with (newfrom + ".control") {
play();
}

the with .. is what is makeing the movie mess up.
any other way to do this?

[kay_siegert]

try the eval() function.

z = eval(newfrom+".control");
z.play();

or:

this[newfrom+".control"].play();

k.