How to make movieclip stay in frame?

[davea42252224]

I'm using HTML5 Canvas.

This is frame 1 of the main timeline and there is one movieclip.

this.myMovieclip.gotoAndStop(24);

this.gotoAndStop(2);

/*

Do some stuff here

...

*/

this.gotoAndStop(1);

Now that I am back at frame 1 of the main timeline the movieclip is no longer at frame 24 and it starts playing from 0. I'm pretty sure that this didn't happen in as3...

Thanks for helping.

[kglad]

comment all your code except the first line.  is this.myMovieclip on frame 24 (or 25)?

[davea42252224]

I actually mentioned something wrong. I'm not stopping the movieclip from the main timeline because "this.myMovieclip.gotoAndStop(24);" simply just doesn't do anything. I'm stopping at the frame of the movieclip itself. My problem is that it will always start from 0 when I come back to the frame it was created.

[davea42252224]

I think I know what the problem is. If you look ate the js file exported (projectname.js) it looks like the movieclip is assigned after the main timeline function.

Because if I immediately do this.myMovieclip.gotoAndStop(24) it won't work. But if i do:

setTimeout(function () {

     this.myMovieclip.gotoAndStop(24);

}, 5000);

it stops. Still don't know how to stop it immediately and avoid it starting from 0, though.

[kglad]

delay by 100ms.

[ClayUUID · Accepted solution]

Why don't you just put this.gotoAndStop(24); in the first frame of myMovieclip itself?

Well anyway, there's a fair bit of discussion in this thread on the subject of accessing uninitialized movie clips:

Re: Accessing movieClip.children array Animate CC Canvas