Play movie clip at timed intervals

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February 23rd, 2004, 10:07 AM

venusdesign

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Play movie clip at timed intervals

Hi - i'm brand new to FLASH & am attempting a simple first project. I have a 6 frame animation of a duck quacking. I would like to create a FLASH movie to be embedded on a web page that will play the movie clip every 60 seconds. Can anyone point me in the proper direction to accomplish this... unfortunately looking thru the lessons & tutorials w/ FLASH haven't helped so far.

Any help is appreciated!

February 23rd, 2004, 11:40 AM

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Hi, you've almost described setInterval with your subject line :¬). setInterval is a flash actionascript function that can be used to call a function every x milliseconds. You can read up about it in the built in flash help. I think there's an example of it's usage there as well. You could do what you want without setInterval though simply by extending a single level to say frame 120, 200 etc...it depends on your framerate. Anyway at the final frame simply use gotoAndPlay(1); to jump back to the start and play the whole thing again.

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February 23rd, 2004, 02:06 PM

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thanks

hey Tann,

yeah, I was going to just increase the # of frames but figured I might as well start digging into ActionScript.

Anyways, thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

ciao!

February 23rd, 2004, 03:31 PM

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Code:

timer = setInterval(delay, 60000);
function delay() {
	clearInterval(timer);
	your_movie_clip.gotoAndPlay(2);
}

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