Interactive flower watering problem (no joke.. :P)

hello there,

I’ve been fiddeling around with flash for a while now. I’m trying to make an interactive plant watering thingy. It basically has the following aspects:

  • you have a watering can which tilts and sprinkles water on a mouse_down event, this can follows the mouse.
  • you have a plant pot movieclip, which is just there for decoration
  • plant movie clip containing a growing plant animation
  • hit area movie clip for the plant pot to enable interaction for the watering can.

What I want to do is the following:
When the watering can is on the hit area, and on mouse down, play the plant movieclip timeline until the mouse is up. pause the timeline where it was at the last time the mouse was down, and resme it when the mouse is down on the hit area again, and the watering can sprinkles the pot.

This should create the effect then when you water the plant pot, a flower will grow, and continue to grow depending on how much you water it.

Might seem pretty stupid, but when I understand how this concept will work my understanding in actionscript will develop alot :slight_smile:
If you don’t understand my explainition, i

I hope that someone will take time to shortly explain this to me, the .fla is in the attachments.

Thanks in advance.