If animation is playing, DO NOT REPEAT IT

[GameFlasher]

Hi,
In my game, there's a button. When I click on it, it plays an animation of 10 frames longs. The problem is; if I keep my finger on the button, the animation will bug and stay to frame 1.
I'd like that the button cannot be pressed before the animation's finish.

So, here's what I want:
I press (or release), the animation plays, but if I press during the animation is playing, it doesn't do anything. I have to wait until the animation is finish to re-start it.

Can you help me?

I know I have to write something with 'true' and 'false', but I don't know how to write it. I tried a lot of things with some threads of this forum, but I didn't reach anywhere...

Thank you!

[Phlook]

what code are you currently using on your button?

[PRadvan]

Call your animation movie clip "anim_mc" and add this to the first frame inside of it:

_root.playTest = "stopped";
stop();

Add this to the second frame:

_root.playTest = "playing";

Add this to the last frame:

gotoAndStop(1);

Add this code to the frame where the button is located (on the timeline):

play_btn.onPress = function() {
	if (_root.playTest == "stopped") {
		anim_mc.gotoAndPlay(2);
	}
};

Call the button "play_btn" and thats it

[VENGEANCE MX]

Are you using a gotoAndPlay() statement? Because if so, I reckon you could fix the problem by using this script on your button instead:

on (release) {
_root.whateverMovieClip.play();
}

[PRadvan]

Are you using a gotoAndPlay() statement? Because if so, I reckon you could fix the problem by using this script on your button instead:

on (release) {
_root.whateverMovieClip.play();
}

that would work too i guess it all depends on what you're trying to do

[GameFlasher]

Thank you VERY MUCH to all of you! It finally works!