Telling a movie to close when another plays? 1

[lizziebyrne]

This should be an easy one for most of you to solve…but obviously not for me!

I have five movie clips on a nav bar (these are the buttons), when selected they pop up and play the movie fine.

What I can’t do: Get whatever movie has previously been selected to return to its start position when another movie clip is selected.

Thanks for the help in advance!

 

[oldnewbie]

Several ways this can be done, but as in your other thread, it's hard to suggest something with the little info provided. Would be better if you posted a link to your .fla.



Regards,

Bacon, eggs and sunshine are still good for me!

 

[lizziebyrne]

Hi

I've added a page on to the back of my site, so here's a link to the file that I'm working on, which can be found in navbar.zip

http://www.lizziebyrne.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/lizbyrne.com/workinprogress.htm

Only the buttons Carousel and Shows are in action at the moment. You'll see that when you click on these, they pop-up. I only want the panel to drop back down when another tab is selected, not when you move your mouse away from the panel. This is because content will appear in the main space above, which the visitor will interact with.

Cheers for the advice!

 

[oldnewbie]

Don't quite understand what you're saying, but here's what I did...

Named each instance of your movie clips with "shows" and "carousel".
Then used this script on each button...

on (release) {
// shows button
_root[_level0.selected].play();
_level0.selected = "shows";
play();
}

on (release) {
// carousel button
_root[_level0.selected].play();
_level0.selected = "carousel";
play();
}

Then on the "show" and "carousel close buttons...

on (release) {
_level0.selected = "";
play();
}

But better to have a look at the .fla...

http://odin.prohosting.com/~oldnew/navbar1.zip

Regards,

Bacon, eggs and sunshine are still good for me!

 

[oldnewbie]

Converted your close movie clip into a button, gave the "elasctic box" movie clip an instance name, and disabled and re-enabled your "letter" button...

Once again, this might better be explainedby checking the .flas...

http://odin.prohosting.com/~oldnew/flicker1.zip

Regards,

Bacon, eggs and sunshine are still good for me!

 

[oldnewbie]

The post above is in fact answering your other thread!

Regards,

Bacon, eggs and sunshine are still good for me!

 

[lizziebyrne]

You must of understood something of what I was saying because you got the file to work just right!! Thank you!