Can't find how to click and go to next scene

[Frank31934205vm7w]

Hello, question. I made 3 keyframes and got a looping nest in each frame. Now I would like to start with frame 1 looping untill you click an object and go to frame 2 which wil start looping and continue till I click another object again to go back to frame 1 (or frame 3). 

My question is, do I make the clickable object in the scene mode or do I go one stage deeper and use actioncode in there? And what would be the correct code(s)? Hope this is clear enough, otherwise let me know and I trie and specifie.

Thanks, greets, Noob Frank

[kglad]

you should place your clickable object and code on the timeline that you want to control with stops and goto's.

[Frank31934205vm7w]

Hello kglad, thank you for your replie. Unfortunately I cant seem to get the right result. Should be simple but I'm guessing something is not going right. I put the file as an attachment and only thing I would like happen, is start with frame 1 looping, then click the sirene to go to frame 2 and keep looping frame 2 and if you click the walkietalkie, yo go to frame 3. Should be fairly easy, but I can not make it happen. Frustrating! A little help would be awesome! Thanks in advance everybody!

[kglad]

you didn't and can't attach a fla. upload to dropbox or its equivalent.

[Frank31934205vm7w]

Can I send you via email or otherwise? 

[kglad]

yes. private message sent.

[kglad]

i received your fla.

what's the siren?  Car.porto?

[Frank31934205vm7w]

the blue thing on the right side front. Is that what you mean?

[Frank31934205vm7w]

porto is the walkie talkie (in Dutch :))

[kglad]

your project is not set up to encode objects that are children of Car.  (and having an object name Car on the Car timeline is not recommended - give one of them another name).

you need to create an object (which can be descendents of other objects) for anything that you want to reference in code.

that's usually a simple matter of right clicking the object > click convert to symbol > and select an object type (eg, moveiclip or graphic in the case of your siren).  

in your situation, because a lot of those objects are tweened, you'll need to copy the frames in the layer and past those frames into the movieclip or graphic, replace the layer frame with a keyframe containing your newly created object and assign an instance name that you can then use in code.

[Frank31934205vm7w]

Oke, so thinking I was almost there was a little mistake... Thank you for your time and I am going to look into it. Thanks!

[kglad]

you're welcome. 

[Frank31934205vm7w]

Just one more question to be clear, It's not possible to create a new layer in my scene, place a new object and make that function as Click and Go to frame 2 and repeat that frame 2?

[kglad]

yes, it is.  that's a good work-around.

you can create an almost transparent object (alpha =1) and place that over your siren and give it an instance name (eg, siren_button).  also, give the main timeline Car layer object and instance name (eg, car) and you can then use

this.car.siren_button.addEventListener("click", sirenF.bind(this));

function sirenF(e){

this.gotoAndStop(1);  // go to your 2nd frame.

}

[Frank31934205vm7w]

I tried as you suggested, but now I got it Flickering fast between the 3 frames. I sent you the fla again. If you do not have the time to look into I completely understand, but if you do have time then much appreciated 🙂

[kglad]

in your first frame you have

stop();

that should be:

this.stop();

does that solve your problem?

[Frank31934205vm7w]

I does not

[kglad]

ok, i'll check the updated fla

[Frank31934205vm7w]

Thank you again! Tommorow is judgement day, so trying to find all the help I can get 😉

[kglad]

carinside has an empty frame after its first frame.  remove that.

[kglad]

p.s. you might want to enlarge your frames so it's easier to see what your timelines look like.  eg, it's difficult to see your main timeline has 3 frames:

it's easier to see with a little frame enlargement

when you have hundreds or thousands for frames, it can be beneficial to shrink them, but that doesn't apply to your fla.

[Frank31934205vm7w]

Good tip! Removed the empty frame, But unfortunately still flickering.

[kglad]

https://www.kglad.com/Files/forums/RECOVER_POLICECHASEmetActions_v000.fla

i changed your first goto to the 3rd frame because there's something different there.

[Frank31934205vm7w]

I can see what you did, but when I export it it keeps flickering. 

[kglad]

save to a new folder with a new publish name.