graphic flashing not animating when click button

[cancane1]

Hi,
I was wondering if someone could help me understand a simple concept. I have a list of images that revolve as I click a button. My problem is that I want the images to perform an animation as they are clicked on. When I try to make a MC below the main scene and make a short animatin then target it from an image I get a flashing picture of the last image in the series. I have 4 MC instances on the main timeline. Buttons, turning actionscripts to make the buttons revlove thru the images,The actual images in a series with a stop action at the begining and end and lastly the animation function that I want to apply to the images.
I am uncertain if I should try to create a label in the turner MC of the buttons and try a call function from the images in the images MC.((I tried this and it didn't work) The other alternative is to target the animation MC from the images MC with a telltarget but this doesnt work either. Can anyont tell me how to get around this and when to use a function with a label rather than the tell target?
Please helpcancane1@aol.com

[cancane1]

Hi,
I was wondering if someone could help me understand a simple concept. I have a list of images that revolve as I click a button. My problem is that I want the images to perform an animation as they are clicked on. When I try to make a MC below the main scene and make a short animatin then target it from an image I get a flashing picture of the last image in the series. I have 4 MC instances on the main timeline. Buttons, turning actionscripts to make the buttons revlove thru the images,The actual images in a series with a stop action at the begining and end and lastly the animation function that I want to apply to the images.
I am uncertain if I should try to create a label in the turner MC of the buttons and try a call function from the images in the images MC.((I tried this and it didn't work) The other alternative is to target the animation MC from the images MC with a telltarget but this doesnt work either. Can anyont tell me how to get around this and when to use a function with a label rather than the tell target?
Please helpcancane1@aol.com

[pknair]

hmmm...i'm afraid i'm not entirely sure what you're trying to say. you've got four images that you're moving around, but are on the stage at all times? or is it that when you click the button, you're swapping MCs, and then getting the clips to animate? or is it just that when you click the button, you animate an mc? or is it something entirely different? do you have an example swf or something posted online that we could see?


hth,
Deep (just a guy)
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[cancane1]

I'll make it a little clearer.
The main timeline has 3 MC's
a tuner, , A book, openup and 2 buttons: with respective instances of turner, book, turn

1) The buttons work fine: [one is-1 and the other is +1)
on (press) {
turner.q = -1;
turner.play();
}
on (release, releaseOutside) {
turner.gotoAndStop(1);
}

2) the tuner works fine. It has 3 keyframes
a)stop,.
b)_parent.book.gotoAndStop(_parent.book._currentfr ame+q);
c) gotoAndPlay (2)

3) the book is an MC that is on the main stage but its parent is the main timeline.

It has two layers. one code with stops and the other images with this code in frame 2 above image 1
ifFrameLoaded (_root.turn1) {
}
stop ();
Therre are a total of 8 images.

4) The last is the openup which is just a motion tween that I want every image in the book to call when the page is clicked on.

[pknair]

perhaps i'm just really tired (which i am - haven't slept in days), but i'm not wrapping my head around what you're trying to do. if you send me the .fla, though, i'm sure i'll see in a second what you're trying to do. if you want to send it to me, send it to pknair.<img src="images/smilies/nosp...i.uwaterloo.ca (remove the "." for the address to work)

thanks!


hth,
Deep (just a guy)
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Pradeep Kumar Nair, B.Math
Interactive Developer
http://www.bluespark.com
ICQ: 39102360
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[Stinger]

I would be happy to look at your .fla as well. I'll look at it and see if I can help you then.

Good luck,

Scott