I need help! This is for school, it's important!! The animation within my symbol doesn't finish before everything moves onto the next scene.

[Sébastian]

Heyy! I got a bit of a problem I got a deadline in 5 hours and I need to make a virtual reality Everything is going great except one thing, and it needs to be fixed. I have a counter in a scene, if it reaches three it goes on to the next scene. it counts every time it clicks on a mouse event. I added the mouse events to symbols and those symbols are animations, I putted the animation within, so when you click on one it does something. the problem I have is, when the counter reaches 3 it instantly moves on to the next scene instead of finishing the symbol animation first. so how do I let the movie clip finish before it moves on to the next frame? I've been searching google for hours and I know I'm a bit late. I really need the help and I appreciate it a lot!!

I'll leave my action script code down here if it helps any.

var Teller = 0;

{if (Teller == 3)

  MovieClip(root).gotoAndStop(3);}

import flash.events.MouseEvent;

spacemaan.buttonMode = true;

spacemaan.mouseChildren = false;

spacemaan.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, startspacemaanAnimatie)

function startspacemaanAnimatie(evt: MouseEvent) {

  spacemaan.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, startspacemaanAnimatie)

  spacemaan.play();

  Teller++;

  if (Teller >= 3) {

  MovieClip(root).gotoAndStop(3);

}

}

Gebouw.buttonMode = true;

Gebouw.mouseChildren = false;

Gebouw.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, startGebouwAnimatie)

function startGebouwAnimatie(evt: MouseEvent) {

  Gebouw.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, startGebouwAnimatie)

  Gebouw.play();

  Teller++;

  if (Teller >= 3) {

  MovieClip(root).gotoAndStop(3);

}

}

flower.buttonMode = true;

flower.mouseChildren = false;

flower.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, startflowerAnimatie)

function startflowerAnimatie(evt: MouseEvent) {

  flower.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, startflowerAnimatie)

  flower.play();

  Teller++;

  var mySound:Sound = new PlantGrowing();

  mySound.play();

}

[Ned Murphy]

One way could be to have a status variable that gets checked before the scene change is made.  Have the functions start a checking function instead of a gotoAndStop(3) command and in that function be repeatedly checking that status variable.  Have the end of the animation change that status variable and the checking function can then use the gotoAndStop(3)

[Sébastian]

how do I do that, if I may ask?

[Ned Murphy]

I do not do students' assignments for them so you will have to try to work thru the description I provide below... realizing that I use function/variable names and values that I made up to be descriptive... you can name them as you please.

Use: addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, checkVariable); instead of gotoAndStop(3);

The ENTER_FRAME will process the checkVariable function continuously

and in the checkVariable function you have it check to see if the value indicates the animation has ended.

function checkVariable(evt:Event) {

     if(theVariable = "animation done"){

          1) remove the event listener to stop the ENTER_FRAME processing

          2) use the gotoAndStop(3) command here

     }

}

In your animation, at the end of it, set theVariable to equal "animation done"