MX2004 help: pausing a movieclip that's moving via actionscript

programming flash
1

stupid question, I know, but for some reason I can’t get it to work right. any help is appreciated.

here’s what I have going on so far–I have a movieclip that’s acting as a continuously scrolling text field, and want it to stop scrolling onMouseDown.

here’s my code right now:

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
	location = this._y;
	var i;
	i = -1;
	if (this._y<-700) {
		this._y = 900;
	}
	else {
		this._y = location+i++;
	}
}
2 
onClipEvent(load) {
   shouldMove = true;
}

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
   if (shouldMove) {
      location = this._y;
      var i;
      i = -1;
      if (this._y<-700) {
          this._y = 900;
      } else {
          this._y = location+i++;
      }
   }
}

and on the mouseDown and mouseUp we will need to define the variables:

onClipEvent(mouseDown) {
   shouldMove = false;
}

onClipEvent(mouseUp) {
   shouldMove = true;
}

that should do it :slight_smile:

3

that worked like a charm!

thanks!