How stop an animation and make it continue on button click.

Question

Ok... I've been out of the loop with flash lately and I only know how to use action script 2 (and even that on a basic level). I'm more of an animator than a programmer.

So what I want to do is:

Create a simple animation that will start (i.e go to the second frame) when you push a button symbol that's been placed on the stage.

So I put this in to the first frame:

import flash.events.MouseEvent;

stop();

start_button.addEventListener (MouseEvent.CLICK, onClick);

function onClick(event:MouseEvent):void

{

gotoAndPlay(2);

}

But the animation doesn't stop. It only stops when if I define the event directly to the stage (stage.addEventListener (MouseEvent.CLICK, on click);). But that allows you to click anywhere on the stage to make the animation play out. What am I doing wrong? Thank you for any answers in advance.

kglad · Accepted Answer

No. I am exporting it to swf.After checking...The code I used was:import flash.events.MouseEvent;stop();start_button.addEventListener (MouseEvent.CLICK, onClick);function onClick(event:MouseEvent):void{play(); }and the error read:Scene 1, Layer 'Layer 1', Frame 1, Line 51061: Call to a possibly undefined method addEventListener through a reference with static type Class.if you see a compiler error message, no code executes in your project.you must fix your error message. change the instance name (in the properties panel) of your start button to start_btn and use that (start_btn) in your code.

kglad · Answer

use:import flash.events.MouseEvent;stop();start_button.addEventListener (MouseEvent.CLICK, onClick);function onClick(event:MouseEvent):void{nextFrame(); // if you want to go to frame 2 and stopplay(); // if you want to go to frame 2 and play}

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