sound/ff/rew/question

[manfishj]

I've got a question. I'm making a flash movie with many pages. I have each page saved as a movie clip. Within each of these movie clips, there is a narration sound file.
Up until now, I have had ff and rew buttons in each of these movie clips that go to the "_currentframe + 20" or"_currentframe - 20" in order to navigate through the sound.

My question is...is it possible to have these ff and rew buttons on the main timeline that would navigate within the movieclip that is currently playing. This way, I would only have to write one script as opposed to 50.

 

[eladi]

hei manfishj,

sure that would work. just give the mc an instance name on the main timeline. then you'll be able too address them with dot-syntax.

_root.InstanceName._currentframe + 20

adrian

 

[manfishj]

Thanks, but for some reason it's not working. I gave the movie clip an instance name of "slide1". I put the ff button on the main timeline, with the following action:

on (release) {
_root.slide1.gotoAndPlay( _currentframe + 20);
}


When I test it, the ff button just brings the audio back to the beginning. When I take away the "gotoAndPlay", the ff button doesn't do anything. Any other ideas?

manfishj

 

[eladi]

hm.

maybe you want to trace the currentframe?! if you don't figure it out, can you post the fla-file somewhere?
adrian