Creating a "Play Button" in Adobe Animate Actionscript 3.0?

[Liz-The-Gecko]

Hello!

I have a project for school where I have to create an animation with audio. I have that finished, but my teacher recommended that I make a playbutton for my animation.

I have tried to follow numerous tutorials but the majority of them are outdated and I get errors when I try to follow them.

What I want to achieve is a button that I press that starts the animation and then disappears.

I already have the button in place but I can't figure out what code to put.

Thanks

[Colin Holgate · Accepted solution]

If you select the button and in Properties give it a name, say 'startBtn', this code would do what you need (the code would be in the frame where the button is, most likely frame 1):

stop();

startBtn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,dostart);

function dostart(e:MouseEvent){

  startBtn.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,dostart);

  play();

}

To make the button go away you would put a blank keyframe in the same layer as the button, in frame 2 for example. At the end of the animation you might want to jump back to the start again, which you could do with:

gotoAndStop(1);

[Liz-The-Gecko]

Hello-

thank you for the help!

when i try to test the animation i get this error on line 3 and 9;

1120: Access of undefined property startBtn

[Liz-The-Gecko]

Edit: I redid everything to do with the button and tried again, I no longer get the error, and so I have no idea what happened in the first place. It works now!

Thank you so much for your help~!!

[Colin Holgate]

Glad you figured it out!

[Con_deisgner]

Hello, Colin,

How can I play audio and animation after click the play btn ????

Because I can play and audio and animation in the same time in Chrome(It's not allow auto play).

Thank you so much.

Charis

[Con_deisgner]

Sample : http://brown.perfectlink.com.hk/citb_ecard/view_card.php?card_id=2112

It is Actionscript 3.0 or html5 ????

[aarong68289470]

sure AcrionScript 3, because need a emulator like ruffle to run, or an "add-on" for rhe browser

[aarong68289470]

ActionScript 3.0