Advance on button press or time delay?

programming flash
1

Hi.

I have done some searching on the forum and have seen AS to delay a movie…but my questions is this…

Is it possible to have a movie advance by either…

a. pressing a button OR
b. after a certain period of time elapses without a button press? (automatic advancing)

Thanks.

2

Hi,

A) Yes.
Something similar to the following whould work. This will work if the button is on the root timeline and you want the root timeline to play.


on(release) {
play();
}

B) Yes.
You can set up an interval that will call a function that will execute a command to play the movie after a set period of time has elapsed. Like so,


//set up the function to be called. Again note that this is all in the root timeline. Put the following all in the 1st frame.
function playNow() {
_root.play();
clearInterval(myInterval);
}

myInterval = setInterval(playNow, 8000);

stop();

Regards,
Viru.