mc gets crazy when button is pushed down many times

[tanatos]

Last Week Great Oldnewbie gave me the code play from frame to next every ten seconds. It works fine but when button which calls the file.swf is clicked many times, file.swf gets crazy why? I don't know. (file.swf is in a holder mc.)

 

[oldnewbie]

So you're actually pausing a loaded external movie?
Just disable the button once it has been clicked for a first time.

Regards,

 

[billwatson]

or better still just add a clearinterval statement to the first line of button code.....crazy behavior comes from lots of the same intervals running at once.

 

[oldnewbie]

...better still...
Shhhhheeeeeeeeeeessssssshhhhhhhhhhh!

Regards,

 

[tanatos]

Hi thank you to oldnewbie and billwatson

//The code is:
function timer(){
_root.container.porceramica.contenedor1.pointing.play();
clearInterval(pause);
};

pause = setInterval(timer, 10000);
stop();
the code attached to button would be?:
on (release) {
clearInterval( pause );
}

 

[billwatson]

function timer(){
_root.container.porceramica.contenedor1.pointing.play();
clearInterval(pause);
};

stop();
the code attached to button would be?:
on (release) {
clearInterval( pause );
pause = setInterval(timer, 10000);
}

 

[oldnewbie]

http://www.actionscripts.org/forums/showthread.php3?s=&threadid=36722

Regards,

 

[tanatos]

OK Today i'm gonna work on the two ways you propose.
To say the truth, i'm a little tired with this stuff cause is the last detail to finish, although without you men it would probably be the first of all.

 

[oldnewbie]

The question you've never answered is... Is there a point in the user's constantly re-loading that "self-pausing" movie loaded in a container clip in your main movie? If not, then simply disable that button, when the movie is first loaded. The user won't be able to reload it, and the self-pausing external movie should work fine.
What Bill is proposing is a button that would pause the movie... Not exactly the same thing, if I've understood you correctly!

Regards,