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prabum28214291
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October 26, 2017
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Animate CC - GotoAndPlay from Jquery External

  • October 26, 2017
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Hi,

I'm having a simple problem, yet i can't find any solution to this...

So I've 4 Animated MovieClips that loops in a Frame 0 (Stopped).

1. What i need to do?

When the User clicks a Button in HTML(not in Animate CC) - which is in the HTML page i've created, I want the Animation in Canvas(animate cc) to gotoAndPlay.

2. Problem

I couldn't figure a way to call a function or gotoAndPlay from External Jquery/Javascript to do this...

Please Help, it would be awesome if HTML elements can trigger functions inside the Actionscript or Functions in ANIMATE CC

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Please HELP!!! - i Know this is possible and just don't know how...

Thanks a lot,

Prabu

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    Correct answer ClayUUID

    Just put this line in the first frame of your Animate movie:

    window.myMovie = this;

    With that reference, any external code can control things as if it was executing inside Animate.

    window.myMovie.ohGodItsAGiantTacoThatWillDestroyUsAll.gotoAndPlay(1);

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    ClayUUIDCorrect answer
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    October 26, 2017

    Just put this line in the first frame of your Animate movie:

    window.myMovie = this;

    With that reference, any external code can control things as if it was executing inside Animate.

    window.myMovie.ohGodItsAGiantTacoThatWillDestroyUsAll.gotoAndPlay(1);

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      prabum28214291Author
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      October 30, 2017

      Hi Clay,

      Thanks a lot, that worked. Amazing!!! to see the things with gotoAndPlay...

      Is there any documentation or tutorials on how deep we can go! - As i would like to explore

      1. Calling Functions in Animate via JQUERY  - eg playThis() is my function inside animate, how to call it from jquery?

      2. Sending Current Frame Number back to JQUERY so i can have different variations of animations like talking, walking etc...

      It will be extremely helpful as i can go explore the possibilities... Sadly not many leads in the web to find out how this works...

      Thanks,

      Prabu

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      ClayUUID
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      October 30, 2017

      It's all just JavaScript. Anything you can get a reference to you can control and access.

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