Subservient Chicken

[jbum]

One way to do it would be to have a movieclip that contains a number of different sections, each with a different label. When you issue

gotoAndPlay('dance');

or

gotoAndPlay('jump');


It will jump to the appropriate label. At the end of the section there is a script that says

gotoAndPlay('idle');

which jumps to back to a basic idle loop.

To process the text, you can do something like:

code:

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myTextInput.onChanged = function()

{

  if (this.text.indexOf('dance') >= 0)

  {

    // text contains the word 'dance'

    gotoAndPlay('dance');

  }

  else if (this.text.indexOf('jump') >= 0)

  {

    // text contains the word 'jump'

    gotoAndPlay('jump');

  }

  else if (this.text.indexOf('make poptarts') >= 0)

  {

    // text contains the words 'make poptarts'

    gotoAndPlay('make poptarts');

  }

// etc.

}

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Alternately, you can use a data structure for all your triggers and labels, enabling you to more easily define multiple triggers for each clip.

code:

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myTriggers = [   { trigs: ['poptarts','breakfast'], label: 'poptarts'},

		 { trigs: ['dance','boogie'],       label: 'dance'},

		 { trigs: ['jump','hop'],           label: 'jump'}];

		 

		

myInput.onChanged = function()

{

  for (var i = 0; i < myTriggers.length; ++i)

  {

    for (j = 0; j < myTriggers[i].trigs.length; ++j) {

      if (this.text.indexOf(myTriggers[i].trigs[j]) >= 0) 

      {

        gotoAndPlay(myTriggers[i].label);

        return;

      }

    }

  }

}

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