How do I use Action script to make a symbol start to play whenever another symbol does?

[jamesp67108574]

import flash.events.MouseEvent;

stop(); //pause the timeline

addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, Go);

function Go(e: MouseEvent) {

gotoAndPlay("Frame1");

}

So this function plays an animation of a trap door opening.

In another symbol, I have the ball that falls out of the trap door and moves around the screen. What Action script do I have to put in the other symbol to make it start playing when function Go starts to play?

[ClayUUID]

You don't. You make the Go function tell both of them to start playing.

[kdmemory · Accepted solution]

Hi James

What ClayUUID is saying is that you have to extend your Go-function as below. First let's assume your ball-symbol is a movieclip. Give it an instance name in the properties panel. Call it simply "ball".

Now within ball in the timeline add a layer  and call it "actions". Here in the first frame code:

stop();

If you want the ball to stop again after the falling-out-of-the-trapdoor animation has finished, then add a stop(); in the last frame too.

I also assume that you have a button which starts the whole process (going to Frame1 and making the ball play. Let's call this button for this example "gobtn".

Then in the frame/actionscript where you have the Go-function, extend it like this:

import flash.events.MouseEvent;
stop(); //pause the timeline
gobtn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, Go);
function Go(e: MouseEvent) {
    ball.play();
    gotoAndPlay("Frame1");
}

You have to make sure that in the frame where the Go-function is, the ball is also present. See that in the first ball-stop()-frame any visual content itself is not present or invisible.

That should do the trick

Klaus