Actionscript that will replace one Movie Clip for another. 2

[spook007]

I would like to load a new movie clip everytime a user rolls over a specific button. I would like to have the new movie clip replace the old movie clip that was displayed when the last button was accessed.

Does anyone have any suggestions for me... Thanks

 

[billwatson]

either have specific images for each button rollover with each image loading into the same clipholder or have a random function to decide which image is to be loaded.

for the former

on (rollOver){
loadMovie("some.jpg",holder);
}

holder the instance name of the empty clip

 

[oldnewbie]

You could have a number of numbered movie clips (mc1, mc2, mc3, etc...) stacked one over the other, all set to be invisible to start with, then simply use a counter variable to cycle through each one of those movie clips to make one of them visible on a press of the button...

count = 1;
previous_mc = 0;

on(release){
_root["mc"+previous_mc]._visible = false;
_root["mc"+count]._visible = true;
previous_mc = count;
count +=1;
if (count > 5){
count = 1;
}
}

This would cycle through 5 movie clips, turning off the visibility of the previously displayed movie clip, and turning on the visibility of the next movie clip in line.

Regards,

 

[spook007]

Thank you for the quick response. I like the cycle approach. What I thought of doing was placing a function on the root that would receive an identifier for the active button. It would then run a loop that would make all the other MC invisible exept for the one that called the function.

Here is the URL for my flash movie. Unfortunately I cannot get the loop to work, I'm trying to debug it, but it will not go into the loop. I don't get an error so I'm not sure what I've done wrong.

http://library.weber.edu/system/test/flash/main.fla

 

[billwatson]

function screenChange(active) {
for (counter=0; counter<5; counter++) {
_root[&quot;mc&quot;+counter]._visible = false;
}
_root[&quot;mc&quot;+active]._visible = true;

}


thats it

 

[spook007]

Thank you guys... I appreciate you time and patience...