Go to previous frame

[ATGB]

Hi!

I am wondering if there is a way of pressing a button in a frame and go to previous frame played. I mean I can reach to that frame from deferents frames, and want to go back to the same frame I was before. Can you understand me?... or help?

Thank you very much.

Ana B

[avid_body16B8]

1. Do you mean inside ANCC timeline with a shortcut or you are talking about what you want to realize in code?
2. ANCC AS3 or HTML5?

[ATGB]

Thank you for your answer resdesign.

No, I mean realize it with code, AS3.

I have frame with credits and almost all pages have a shortcut to the credits. I would like to go back to the same page, like a go to previous frame but previous frame played.

[avid_body16B8]

I do not code AS3 but I would assume you could use a variable to know where you are and go where you want.

For example.

var current;

then you could set the variable to where you are, for example on page 1 set currrent to 1, on page 2 set current to 2, and so on.

//for page 1

current = 1;

Now on your credit page, check the value of the variable.

if (current == 1){

  // go to page that has current = 1;

      this.gotoAndPlay("page1");

}

and so on.

[ATGB]

Thank you, I will try that...

[avid_body16B8]

You could also make it more general

I would have an array of the name of the different locations. Then I would have something like this:

var pages = ["home", "about", "bio"];

this.gotoAndStop(pages[current]);

[kdmemory]

And your credits page needs a label called "credits".

[ATGB]

Thank you!

I manage to do it with your suggestion

[kdmemory · Accepted solution]

Hi anab

it depends a little. Your desciptions sound like that all frames you navigate to are on one timeline. If that's the case then declare a variable in an Actions layer on frame 1:

var thePreviousFrame:int;

Now on every frame where you have a shortcut to your credits page (a button) with some actionscript like:

CREDITSBUTTON.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, CREDITSBUTTONHandler);

function CREDITSBUTTONHandler (e:MouseEvent) {

    thePreviousFrame = currentFrame;  

    gotoAndStop("credits");

}

On your credits page for the interactive element (button) to go back to previous page:

PREVIOUSBUTTON.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, PREVIOUSBUTTONHandler);

function PREVIOUSBUTTONHandler (e:MouseEvent) {

     gotoAndStop(thePreviousFrame);

}

(CREDITSBUTTON and PREVIOUSBUTTON are of course just placeholders for your instance names of those particular interactive elements.)

Klaus