My problem is finding a way for the preloader class instance to tell when
the
movieclip reaches a certain frame or frame label
Actually, I prefer to set things up in an event-based model. I don't have the code in front of me, but if you look at the EventDispatcher class, you can have whatever movie is doing the loading to add listeners to that which was loaded: myClip.addEventListener( "complete", Delegate.create( this, onComplete ) ); and inside of myClip, you'll need to: this.dispatchEvent( {type:"complete", target:this} ); Unfortunately this behavior is not built into MovieClip... Just some ideas... Scott On 10/6/06, Daniel Forslund|Lists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi all! I have a (hopefully not too ignorant) question relating to movieclips created on the fly. Basically, I have a preloader class that is generic and reusable. It's called from whatever object that does dynamic loading of content and then in turn invokes a movieclip from a passed symbol name(can be anything, as long as a basic movieclip structure is followed). It all works great. However, when the loading is done I want the dynamically created mc to play an "outro" animation that is preanimated in the movieclip (as opposed to animated via AS, that would be easy ;) ). My problem is finding a way for the preloader class instance to tell when the movieclip reaches a certain frame or frame label (and is done with the outro). I can't find a suitable event to hook into? I guess I was looking for something like "mc.onframelabel" to hook a function to, I guess that was naive. :) Can I in some way create a hook myself, or do I have to create a watcher object that checks each frame where the playhead is in my dynamic loader movieclip? Would certainly work, but it's not very elegant. My goal is to keep the preloader movieclip code-free. Anyway, I hope I managed to describe the problem. Apologies for any ignorance and any terms/keywords used out of context. I'm pretty new to more advanced actionscript, but have many moons of general coding experience. :) Many thanks in advance, Dan _______________________________________________ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
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