Actionscript Question

programming flash
1

ok before I go ahead and ask this dumb question I will explain what I want to do.

I understand how to make page transitions but they way I was making them was to add them at the begining of each page(frame). And saying gotoAndPlay each frame(using buttons) but by doing this I cant have the actual transition cover the current contents of the page and then after it covers the current page load the new one. But like i said by putting the transition at the start of each page it goes to a blank backround and covers nothing.

Breakdown:

Is there a timeout feature in actionscript so I could delay going to the next frame until the transition covers it?

Is there any other way of achiving this besides the way i was doing it?

Any help is appriciated

<img src=“http://www.nibodesigns.com/Bill/brichbanner copy.jpg” Border=“1”>

2

bill -

seems to me like you could simply place a loadMovie action followed by a stop(); at the last frame of your transition…

3

if you wanna add a simple delay, you can use setInterval() :slight_smile:

4

You can have the last frame of your transition establish a variable value. Then, have your code check for the value of the variable before it proceeds.

(last frame of the transition)
_root.varTransitionPlayed=Yes;

(movie clip frame)
mc.onEnterFrame=function(){
if(_root.varTransitionPlayed==“Yes”){
gotoandplay(2);
}
}

I didnt check this code, although I always do, because Im half asleep… but that is the basic logic. (I think… hmm… maybe Im dreaming all of this… maybe… MOTHER???..Shazzam? What are YOU doing here?? Neo… Wake up!..)

5

Thanks I think I have it now :slight_smile: