?Click Button to Play Movie Clip?

[jgilbreath77]

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!!!

[tuvguy]

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

[jgilbreath77]

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

Thanks for the heads up.

[jgilbreath77]

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?

[moagrius]

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.

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