Hi all. I’m in desperate need of some expert help to finish a project. Unfortunately, time is pressing.
I’m not a programmer (that will soon become painfully clear!) but I’ve managed to scramble some bits of code together from various sources. Sadly, it’s just not enough.
The project is actually rather simple. Basically, we have one button. When pressed, that button calls two movies each one linked to a random array – let’s call them Text and Anim.
Text is linked to an array of 1-15, Anim to an array of 1-6. When the array begins to repeat the array is wiped and we roll a new set of numbers.
My problem is in calling these movies. Presently, I have each movie placed in a frame and am using the array numbers to call a particular frame, rather than loading a movie. So, in other words, we are going to FrameRandomNumber instead of loading MovieRandomNumber.
And it’s not working, largely because at the end of each movie is a ‘stop();’ code and that, as you can guess, freezes the entire Flash piece.
The question I’d like to ask is, how do I load my two movies – ‘TextRandomNumber1’, ‘AnimRandomNumber2’ – have them play once and stop, have the button wait for another click and then go again when that happens (unloading the previous movies first, of course)?
I’ve included a diagram as I doubt my explanation is up to much. And also the code I’m currently using (unsuccessfully). NOTE: The code only includes one random array. I couldn’t work out how to include a second one.
My sincere thanks in advance.
stop();
var nextPage:Array; // will hold the page numbers, in random order
var pageNumbers:Array;
doRandomOrdering();
stop();
function doRandomOrdering():void // fill the 'nextPage' array with a random ordering of the pages
{
nextPage = new Array();
pageNumbers = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15];
for(var p:int = 0; p<15; p++)
{
// pick the next page number by picking a random element from the 'pageNumbers' array
var posn:int = Math.floor(Math.random()*(pageNumbers.length));
// put that page number into the 'next' array
nextPage.push(pageNumbers[posn]);
// remove that page number from the 'pageNumbers' array
pageNumbers.splice(posn,1);
}
trace(nextPage);
} // end doRandomOrdering
myNextButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, doNextPage);
function doNextPage(e:MouseEvent)
{
var frameName:String = "hex" + theNextPage().toString();
gotoAndStop(frameName);
}
function theNextPage():int
{
if(nextPage.length == 0) // we've visited all the pages
{
doRandomOrdering(); // create a new random ordering of the pages
}
return(nextPage.shift()); // the first value in the 'nextPage' array
} // end nextPage
