Using a button to play two movies

[tkfourtwoone]

I'm designing a photos page for my band. (you can see what I have so far at stairwell.net.) I want to create a button that will do two things:

1. play a simple movie, and then...
2. play another movie immediately after the first movie finishes (but not before). (this movie will open a full size version of a thumbnailed image.)

I can make the two movies happen at once, but i want flash to wait for (1) to finish, and then do (2).

thanks.

[Edited by tkfourtwoone on 11-13-2001 at 02:05 AM]

[ndl]

Use tellTarget.

At the end of the first movieclip [MC] add the following actionscript [AS]:

tellTarget ("_root.movieclip2") {
play ();
}

[tkfourtwoone]

I am using telltarget commands for my button. I was asking if I can just embed both commands in the button. are you saying that I should:

1. just have one command in the button (to play the first [MC]), and then
2. embed a command at the end of [MC]1 to play [MC]2?

I guess that makes sense, I'll give that a shot. Though I'm still curious if I can just embed both commands in the one button. Please confirm if this is possible or not. Thanks!

[sintech]

one tell target on the button and one in the movie clip(1) would be the easiest way to do it.

[tkfourtwoone]

ok cool. thanks.

[yesterdaysong]

You could always do an if else command.

What it would be would be....if ....movie clip 1 is finished, tell movie clip two to start.

To let flash know that movie clip one is finished....at the end of the clip, you'd set a variable to something. Like......finished equals true...or something like that.

SO then the code would look like, if finished equals true, then tell movie 2 to play, otherwise, do nothing.

But, the above posters are right....the other way is better.