I want to make an on/off button that pauses the current scene and when hit again starts playing it. I created a movie clip with two buttons, one for pause the other for play. I also set the button properties to stop and play respectively, but this doesn't stop the current scene. Any suggestions on how to do this? Thanks for the help!
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On/off button
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You're probably using simple play(); and stop(); actions on your buttons, but since it's from witin a movie clip and you're targeting the main timeline, you'll have to add _root to your scripts, something like...
on (press){
_root.play();
} Regards,
on (press){
_root.play();
} Regards,
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OH! You've got to type it in. When in the Object or Frame action boxes, in Flash 5, there's a top-right arrow menu where you can select Normal mode or Expert mode. In Expert mode you can type whatever in the actions box. One trick is then to switch back to Normal mode, before closing the window, and Flash won't let you do so if you have syntax errors. Kind of a fast syntax check!
If you're using MX, the icon is more of an arrow inside a frame type of think, it's the last one to the top right. Regards,
If you're using MX, the icon is more of an arrow inside a frame type of think, it's the last one to the top right. Regards,
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