HELP -- seeking scene in flash

[ericahlstrom]

Anyone know how to address a specfic scene in a flash move. ex "scene_02, frame 1" ?

The current seek will only work on the main timeline

[Corey]

Hmmm, OK. My recommendation is to name your key frames in Flash and then create a small function to jump to those frames as dictated by a simple variable which you can manipulate from AMS using the Flash.SetVariable action. :yes

[eric_darling]

Anyone know how to address a specfic scene in a flash move. ex "scene_02, frame 1" ?

The current seek will only work on the main timeline
This sounds like a non-AMS question? Perhaps better re-positioned in the Computer Chat forum?

In any case, using Actionscript 2.0, you should use the object-oriented dot notation. For example: myMovieClipInstance.gotoandstop(labelName);

Here's a terrific tech document from Macromedia on the topic, which leads to several other very good ones as well:
http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_14123

[Corey]

I think the question here is, "how to use the AMS Flash.Seek action to jump across scenes". I'm creating an example right now. :yes

[eric_darling]

More directly, you can address a frame in a different scene by just naming the scene in the gotoandstop or gotoandplay commands.

For an instance where you have two scenes named "sceneOne" and "sceneTwo", you could put this code on a button in sceneOne (where the numeral 1 is the frame number you want to target in sceneTwo):
gotoAndStop("sceneTwo", 1);

[Corey]

Not in AMS. The Flash.Seek function accepts a number. :yes

[ericahlstrom]

thanks for the help. After reading Eric Darling's link I found that you can simply use the seek function in AMS by adding the frame's from the previuos scenes to get to the next scene.

So if you have 3 scenes and each scene is 10 frames then scene 2 would = frame 10. simple enough.

eric

[ericahlstrom]

Not in AMS. The Flash.Seek function accepts a number. :yes

If you have another way I would like to see it.

Thanks for the help.

Eric :lol

[Corey]

Ah, I see. OK great, I was only going by your original post which implied you weren't able to do that. I don't use scenes personally, so... :)

Anyhow I'm working up a more dynamic example. :yes

[ericahlstrom]

Ah, I see. OK great, I was only going by your original post which implied you weren't able to do that. I don't use scenes personally, so... :)

Anyhow I'm working up a more dynamic example. :yes

More dynamic is good. :yes

[Corey]

OK here you go, I've attached an example where I got it down to a couple actions, basically you just pass the frame name and a flag variable. This can be applied across scenes, inside of movie clips (with a small mod), etc. i.e.:

_root.onEnterFrame = function() {

if (hopFlag=="true") {
hopFlag = "false";
gotoAndPlay(myFrame);
}

}

[ericahlstrom]

OK here you go, I've attached an example where I got it down to a couple actions, basically you just pass the frame name and a flag variable. This can be applied across scenes, inside of movie clips (with a small mod), etc. i.e.:

_root.onEnterFrame = function() {

if (hopFlag=="true") {
hopFlag = "false";
gotoAndPlay(myFrame);
}

}

Thanks very much. That is exactly what I needed. My workaround works but the Macromedia guys say that it may create unexpected results, I can't afford unexpected results in my job.

Thanks again

;)

[eric_darling]

Sorry about that - my impression was that Eric wanted to know how to do this completely within Flash itself. I don't often have the need to make AMS do the work that can be done right inside the SWF, which is what I had figured could be done in this case.

[Corey]

No problem ericahlstrom. :)

Yeah, you're right eric_darling in that case. Named frames are often easier to work with in the end than numbers, especially as your Flash movies grow, and grow, and grow. :)

[eric_darling]

Hee! Too many Erics. :)