pause and play buttons

[InteractionDesign]

Hi can anyone help

I am trying to develop a slide show/movie thingy!!!.

The flash movie just starts at begining and continues to the end. however i want to allow user to be able to pause and then contine watching the movie when they want.

So my question is how do i create a pause button which pauses the movie and then a play button which continue the movie from where it was paused.

Thanks for any help

 

[oldnewbie]

Hard to say without knowing how this was constructed.
Is it just a running linear movie on the main timeline, and you simply want to pause it, and re-start it?

If so, you can have 2 buttons, a pause and a play button with these scripts attach to them...

Pause:
on(release){
_level0.stop();
}

Play:
on(release){
_level0.play();
}

But you could also have 1 only pause/play toggle button movie clip, which would accomplish the same thing.

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[InteractionDesign]

cheers tahnkyou for the code.

yes it is a linear sequence and two buttons are fine. however i am SO NEW to flash i dont even know how to attach this code to the functionality of the buttons.

can you help?

 

[oldnewbie]

Well if you can create 2 buttons and drag instances on the stage (on their own layer if only for clarity's sake...), the in turn right-click each one onf them and select Actions. That should open up the Actions - Button window where you would type the above scripts.

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