MovieClip - Adobe ActionScript® 3 (AS3 ) API Reference

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This question was posted in response to the following article: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/display/MovieClip.html

[CubOfJudahsLion]

A very simple question I'd like to ask a MovieClip: "hey, are you playing right now?"

Wrapping a MovieClip in a class meant to intercept every goto*() and stop() function is a bit too much work to get this one simple thing.

[kglad · Accepted solution]

there's no easy way to do that and no way to do determine that in less than one enterframe loop. the technique you sketched in your message won't work.

[CubOfJudahsLion]

It does work. It's one of the classes I use the most, as a matter of fact. But still, too much work for something so simple.

[kglad]

if you think your technique works, it's only because of your special circumstances.

an example where your technique would fail would be a movieclip that had a stop() on each of its frames.  if you executed a play() method for that movieclip, your technique would report the movieclip is playing when most people would judge that movieclip is not playing because it's not changing frames with time.

[CubOfJudahsLion]

shrugs Believe what you want to believe.

[jrunrandy]

I'm no expert, but doesn't MovieClip.isPlaying() tell you this?

Randy Nielsen

Senior Content and Community Manager

Adobe

[kglad]

that is logical but, no.

isPlaying is a property of the Tween class and AnimatorBase, not MovieClip.

[jrunrandy]

Thanks, @kglad. I stand corrected.

-R