Pausing a clip, including the nested clips?

[EricAndresen0]

I have learned everything I know about Flash by experimenting, so I apologize if my practices are not conventional. I am trying to make a button that will pause my entire movie, but when I make a movie, I usually have so many movie clips nested within one another in such a tangled mess that it is extremely difficult to pick out all the moving parts and synchronize a pause feature. Is there any way that I can pause a clip and include the nested clips? Is there some way to load an .swf file and then create my own controls for it? I am very confused ;-), please help.

 

[billwatson]

put this in frame 1

function stopAll(j){
var i=0;
for (i in j){
if (typeof(j)== "movieclip&quot{
stopAll(j);
j.stop();
}
}
}

function playAll(j){
var i=0;
for (i in j){
if (typeof(j)== "movieclip&quot{
stopAll(j);
j.play();
}
}
}



thats your stop and play functions defined

to use them on a button with an instance name add

paused = false;
pause_btn.onRelease = function(){
if(!paused){
stopAll(_root) or stopAll(clipinstancename) etc
paused = true;
}else{
playAll(_root) etc
paused = false;
}
}

let me know if this works, it looks like it will, but its untested.


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You know you're old if you can remember when bacon, eggs and sunshine were good for you

 

[billwatson]

i have stuck the code in an fla here

http://billwatson.no-ip.info/public/allclips.fla

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You know you're old if you can remember when bacon, eggs and sunshine were good for you

 

[EricAndresen0]

Thanks for the help. That worked fine.

 

[oldnewbie]

Still can't get that code thing going can you?

Process TGML!

Regards,

Bacon, eggs and sunshine are still good for me!

 

[EricAndresen0]

Huh?

 

[oldnewbie]

Doesn't concern you but the instructor!

Regards,

Bacon, eggs and sunshine are still good for me!