How can I stop a simple click stopping a clip tweening?

[pup100]

Hi,

I have got a clip that tweens across the stage into a new position.

Problem I have got & this is something that I have never noticed with Flash, is that if I put an onPress() event on it & then click the clip as it moves across the stage the whole thing comes to a grinding halt!

Is there anyway to stop this happening or getting the movie going again?

fla attached.

[samac1068]

What is suppose to happen when you click on the ball? I did notice it just stops when clicked and fades to 40%. When they click on it, is it suppose to do anything.....just curious why you have an onPress on the ball in the first place.

[pup100]

It is part of a much bigger problem samac1068 that I posted on a few days ago, but never got answered http://board.flashkit.com/board/showthread.php?t=789579

I have got a tween half way into which some playing cards can be clicked to turn them over. Doing this totally screws up the tween!

The ball movie is just a demo created to simplify the point I was making that in Flash if you just wanted to do something as simple as changing the alpha on a clip, clicking it brings the movie to a halt!

[samac1068]

aahhh.... I understand. Instead of timeline tweening, can you tween with script and have a listener check for user interaction before to move each frame....of course, now thinking that may slow it down a bit.

[Zettl]

I'm not sure if this is what you wanted exactly, but it should help you nonetheless.

I took the animation from the main timeline and placed it within ball_mc, then controlled ball_mc's timeline to stop when clicked, and continue playing when clicked again, while changing the alpha of the instance of ball_mc placed on the main timeline.

I think the reason it didn't work while the animation was on the main timeline was that the change in alpha was interrupting the tween.

I used an if/else statement that checks ball_mc's alpha to determine what should happen when it is clicked, so check that out.
Hope this helps.

I will take a look at your card animation as well, and see what the problem might be there.

[pup100]

Thank you again samac1068.

And thank you Zettl. I had come to a similar conclusion myself & have now got the full card movie to work by putting the turning card into another clip & tweening the new clip across the stage.

I still can't get my head round why Flash should stop a clip tweening just because someone presses a button. It is not like the comand was _alpha=40; & then stop the tweening clip.

As I say, i think i have found a fix. It seems to work, but it leaves a bad taste in my mouth that I coudn't achieve the same without having to create another holding clip.

Thanks again for your help my friend.

[Zettl]

Thank you again samac1068.

And thank you Zettl. I had come to a similar conclusion myself & have now got the full card movie to work by putting the turning card into another clip & tweening the new clip across the stage.

I still can't get my head round why Flash should stop a clip tweening just because someone presses a button. It is not like the comand was _alpha=40; & then stop the tweening clip.

As I say, i think i have found a fix. It seems to work, but it leaves a bad taste in my mouth that I coudn't achieve the same without having to create another holding clip.

Thanks again for your help my friend.

I believe the reason the tween stopped when you changed the alpha was because it contradicted the tween. The tween tells the movie "move x from x to x in x # of frames", or "change this property of x in x # of frames", and if you interrupt this by changing the properties through code, everything jsut gets tied up.
By putting the tween as a child of a movieclip and changing the overall properties of that movieclip, it doesn't interact with the tween'd object itself.


That's a really rough explanation, but I'm pretty sure that's why you cannont do it the way you intended. :S

[pup100]

Thanks Zettl, that is roughly the conclusion I have come up with, as if you put a "trace" command on the clip it will still tween, but the trace txt will come up.

Annoying thing is that it took me the best part of a week to figure all that out! Flash can throw you these curve balls sometimes - Thank God for Flashkit!