Movement with actionscript

Thanks. This was very helpful.

D'oh! Live and learn more. Thanks.

>>Interesting I would have thought the scope at that point was the
>>myTextClip. Live and learn.
>>_parent.gotoAndPlay(2);

It's because you didn't use this, as in: this._parent.gotoAndPlay(2);

If you trace(_parent); you'll get undefined. If you trace(this._parent)
you'll get _level0. When you don't specify the scope (this) and assign a
function, the scope is where you're at... if you were 'in' the clip then
_parent would be _root but since you're at _root when you assign the
function, _parent alone is not possible. Best to always specify and use
this.


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Interesting I would have thought the scope at that point was the myTextClip. Live and learn.

Hi,

Thanks for the quick reply! That actually did not work. It moved the text fine, but when the text stopped, the movie did not go to frame 2. But, I replace this:
_parent.gotoAndPlay(2);
with this:
gotoAndPlay(2);

and it works great now! Thanks for your help!

Bob

Well it has an effect, just not the one you want! You've got a few things going wrong.

First, you only want the entire clip to go to frame 2 when the text has stopped moving. So the statement should go inside the conditional if(this._y<100)){}. As it currently stands it looks like it is out side the outer condtional and that would mean that every frame it is going to and playing 2.

But that brings us to our second problem. You aren't being very clear about what you want to go to frame 2. Since there is no movie clip instance there Flash will assume that you want the current object to move it's timeline to frame 2. In this case since the code is on your text movieclip -- and I'm guessing it doesn't have a frame 2 -- the code is actually trying to send the movie clip to frame 2. I'm guessing you want to send the text movieclip's _parent to frame 2? In that case the code would be:

onClipEvent(enterFrame) {
if (!cancelled) {
speed = 4;
this._y -= speed;
if (this._y < 100) {
this.cancelled=true;
_parent.gotoAndPlay(2);
}
}
}

But there is still something that is bad about this. Since the clip still exists every frame is still going to have to check if cancelled is true or not. Not a problem if this is the only clip you have doing stuff, but it is still stloppy wasteful design. Instead....

Don't put the code directly on the clip. Instead put it on a frame of the main timeline, by that I mean the timeline the movie is sitting on. Give your text movieclip and instance name like, myTextClip or some such and then -- and remember this is frame code:

myTextClip.onEnterFrame=function(){
this._y-=4;
if(this._y<100){
delete this.onEnterFrame;
_parent.gotoAndPlay(2);
}
}

That is better style.