Stopping a clip until a variable becomes true 1

[EricAndresen0]

Does anyone know of a way to get a movie clip to pause until a global variable becomes true (triggered by a button or event in another clip)? Currently, I am using a messy system that involves two keyframes with the same contents that appears stopped but is actually playing in a loop back and forth to continue checking the variable status. Is there a simpler way to do this?

Here is an example of my code. This will wait for the variable _global.blnThreeA to be true until it goes to the third frame:

On the first frame:

if (_global.blnThreeA == true) {
this.gotoandplay(3)
}

On the second frame:

if (_global.blnThreeA == true) {
this.gotoandplay(3)
} else {
this.gotoandplay(1)
}

Does anyone have a suggestion about a better way to do this?

 

[billwatson]

without knowing the specifics this ought to do it

stop();
this.onEnterFrame = function(){
if(_global.blnThreeA)gotoAndPlay(3)
}

 

[EricAndresen0]

Thanks. That is working great and is saving me a lot of grief.