Making the main stage timeline play in reverse.

Question

Hey all thanks for looking. I figured out how to do this with movie clips but I can't seem to get it right with the main stage. Can anyone tell me a simple methood of telling the stage to continue playing in reverse, after a button is clicked, until it reaches a keyframe that will tell it to stop? I'm trying to make it so buttons will tell the stage to play a transition from beginning to end and then have it play in reverse when the "back" button is pressed. I'm currently searching online to find an answer but I haven't had any luck yet. Thanks for the help!

kglad · Accepted Answer

This is good. Thanks! Can you tell me how to reference the root timeline from inside a MC. I thought I could do it like this:

ex. root.gotoAndPlay(25);

:

MovieClip(root).gotoAndPlay(25);

playF(MovieClip(root),MovieClip(root).currentFrame,1); // play the root from its current frame to frame 1.

Anonymous · Answer

Say back_btn is your reverse button. now go through the code below,

var speed:Number = 10;
//speed can be calculated using fps
var frameNoToStopOn = 5;
var t:Timer = new Timer(speed)

back_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, playReverse);

function playReverse(evnt:MouseEvent)
{
t.start();
t.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, goBack);
}

function goBack(evnt:TimerEvent)
{
if(currentFrame == frameNoToStopOn)
{
t.stop();
t.removeEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, goBack);
return;
}
else
{
gotoAndStop(currentFrame -1);
}
}

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