pause/delay the motion set by Actionscript in mc

[Curisco]

well this is no joke i've spent 3 hours straight looking and trying but alas i just can't do it ...

Main timeline consists of 1 frame. So gotoAndPlay is out.

Movie has several 1 frame layers all of which are Actionscripted 1 framed movie clips.

The clip in question uses motion set and stoped by :


onClipEvent(load){
endLocation=600; //stops at x pos 600
}
onClipEvent(enterFrame){
diff=endLocation-_x;
_x+=diff/2; //higher number slow, low number faster

}

Now ... how the ... do i delay the playing of the above MC script.
most, if not all the tips i'v seen refer in one way or another to a frame based solution or needs to be tweeked in about 57 places..So tired now i can't think .
Help me out folks and once again my gratitude and thanks are of the deepest kind

Ramsey



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Laughing out loud every day,
keeps the doctor away....gotoAndPlay
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[oldnewbie]

What do you mean exactly by delay? Slow down the execution of the script itself? Or delaying the moment when the script must be executed?

Regards,

 

[Curisco]

Thanks for such a quick reply i would like to
delay the moment when the script must be executed.

/R

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Laughing out loud every day,
keeps the doctor away....gotoAndPlay
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[oldnewbie]

Set a root variable to false to start with, and then condition your script to execute only when the variable has been set to true.

_level0.clip_move = false; //variable is clip_move

And on your script...

onClipEvent(enterFrame){
    if(_level0.clip_move == true){
        diff=endLocation-_x;
        _x+=diff/2;   
        // The clip was moved... 
        _level0.clip_move = false; 
    } else {
        //some other action...
        _level0.clip_move = false;
    }
}

Whenever you want your clip to move, just set the variable to true on a button or frame action...



Regards,

 

[Curisco]

Nice one i'll give it a try
Thanks

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Laughing out loud every day,
keeps the doctor away....gotoAndPlay
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[Curisco]

nope...
Sorry but i give up ...
it's going to be

stop()
after 10 seconds play movie clip1
then()
after 3 seconds play movie clip2

haveAniceDay();

using getTimer() or something.

nextQuestion
Thanks and sorry to waste your time

/R

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Laughing out loud every day,
keeps the doctor away....gotoAndPlay
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