Hi all:
I’m trying to develop a Flash 8 package for use in a Children’s Science museum. It
will be a dedicated code viewed by Flash Player through Firefox. What I’m having
trouble with is trying to implement setTimeout so that the code will revert to the
first page after a defined time period. The timeout I seem to be able to set, but what
I want to do is have the timeout get reset if there is a mouse click. I’ve tried several
naive things, the last being defining a mouse listener on the root page (frame #1):
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stop();
var mouseListener:Object;
mouseListener=new Object();
mouseListener.onMouseDown = function() {
if(timer1 != null) {
clearTimeout(timer1);
}
var timer1=setTimeout(restart,15*1000);
};
Mouse.addListener(mouseListener);
function restart()
{
_root.gotoAndStop(1);
}
What I’m getting is the timer never seems to get reset when I click the mouse.
In fact the time interval gets shorter as if many timers are being set. What am
I missing? I tried commenting out the if test and just letting the clearTimeout get
called each time, this didn;t change anything. I really am new at Flash, so don’t
assume I know all the syntax or tricks of the trade.
Also, if there is a better way to do this please let me know.
In case its important, the structure of my Flash code is “Page 1” is a loop animation
that the user can click anywhere. This click moves to “Page2” that gives a descripition
of what the thing is all about, there is a button on this to go to “Page 3”. Page 3 has
a map and 6 buttons that link to 6 differect animations. On each animation the user
can pause, rewind, play or go back to page 3. As long as they are clicking the mouse,
I want the code to let them navigate around, once the mouse goes without a click for 5
minutes I want it to go back to page 1.
Any help would be appreciated.
