Starting moving by pressing enter

[Random490]

Just as the title says, I want to have a stop action on my first frame and have a code the will play the the movie once you press "Enter" on the key board.

I'm using actionscript 2. Any help would be great

[rickibarnes]

Try like so:

stop();

this.onEnterFrame = function () {
    if(Key.isDown(Key.ENTER))  {
        this.play();
    }
}; 

I'm using "this" to refer to the timeline, it doesn't have to be like that. I just like to have a reference to the thing I'm talking about. And it could refer to anything, like _parent, _root, my_mc, etc.

[Robb@exo]

Hey, try something like this,...

stop();
keyListener = new Object();
keyListener.Key.ENTER = function() {
    play();
}; 

HTH.

[Random490]

Try like so:

stop();

this.onEnterFrame = function () {
    if(Key.isDown(Key.ENTER))  {
        this.play();
    }
}; 

I'm using "this" to refer to the timeline, it doesn't have to be like that. I just like to have a reference to the thing I'm talking about. And it could refer to anything, like _parent, _root, my_mc, etc.

This one worked, even though the last line made no sense to me

Hey, try something like this,...

stop();
keyListener = new Object();
keyListener.Key.ENTER = function() {
    play();
}; 

HTH.

I couldn't get this working

But thanks to the both of you, really helpful

[rickibarnes]

Actually the way Robb@exo said to do it is a better way! I'm not very good at listening objects though (you could probably guess, since I didn't think of that!), but that code looks like it should work fine.

I'd pursue that more, since as I said, that would be a much better way of doing it.

[mwgum]

If you want to use AS3 it would be this:

stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN,keyDownListener);
function keyDownListener(e:KeyboardEvent):void {
                if (e.keyCode==13) {
                gotoAndPlay(2);
                }
                }
stop(); 

*This is AS not PHP

[Robb@exo]

That's odd, because when tested, my code worked for me.