Okay so I am learning to write with with ActionScript for a flash project. First of all I hate this language and can't figure out how to solve my problem. I am trying to play the frames so that they appear 1 second apart but stop at a certain frame.
Right now I pause it on the first frame right away with the command
gotoAndStop(1);But then after the user clicks a button I want it to play until frame 5 and stop, each frmae in between is used to show different things appearing on the screen. THe problem is I can't figure out how to make it stop on the fifth frame. I mean I tried code that would pause the time line but wouldn't pause the code itse;f, so althought the timeline was paused the code kept going on, and I tried creating a while look to check if had reached the current frame but that just locked up the system
var testVar:Boolean = false;
while(testVar == false)
{
gotoAndPlay(2);
trace("What");
testVar = checkCurrentFrame(testVar);
}
function checkCurrentFrame(testVar:Boolean):Boolean
{
if(currentFrame >= 4)
{
trace("found it");
stop();
testVar = true;
}
else
{
trace("not yet");
}
return testVar;
}Above is the while loop that locks up the code, below is the pause play method I tried
var theTimer:Timer = new Timer(2000);
theTimer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, timerStart);
gotoAndStop(2);
trace("Step 2");
theTimer.start();
gotoAndStop(3);
trace("Step 3");
theTimer.start();
gotoAndStop(4);
trace("Step 4");
theTimer.start();
gotoAndStop(5);
//I used these trace methods to see if the code would stop...it didn't
function timerStart(e:TimerEvent):void
{
play();
theTimer.reset();
}Okay so I feel like I could be asking a really stupid question but I hate this language it's written poorly and I just hate it. I haven't yell at a code this bad in a long time (Last time was when I first leared to program)
So in the end is there anyway to stop the code for say a second at a time or use the timeline's Frames per second and detect when a frame is reached in which then I could pause the code cause I just can't figure it out and it's realy pissing me off.
Thanks in advance