[Chii]

hi!
i'm making a flash game. but no matter how i try i can't get the *** movieclip to move!
is it possible to have two onEnterFrame functions running at the same time?

any ideas? Please help!!!


i also have a problem with a _mc.onPress function.
i have an empty movieclip in which i upload a picture from xml. now i want to be able to click the movieclip to perform a function.

the code is something like this:

pic = node.firstChild.frstChild.attributes.thepic;
_root.pic_mc.loadMovie("picfile/" + pic);

pic.onPress = function()
{
trace("inside pic- function");
_root.anotherEmpty_mc.loadMovie("pic2");
}


the uploading of the picture is no problem, that works just fine, the thing is that i never get into the pic.onPress- function.

please !
i don't know what to do!

[stringy]

You can only have one onEnterFrame per timeline

You will have to wait for the movie to load before assigning onPress but i think your target should be root.pic_mc

[toby]

You can only have one onEnterFrame per timeline, but every movieclip has its own timeline, so you can end up having as many onEnterFrame's as you have movieclips on any timeline, including the _root.

Code:

_root.clip1_mc.onEnterFrame = function(){
  trace("foo");
}
_root.clip2_mc.onEnterFrame = function(){
  trace("bar");
}

The reason that your onPress is not working, is because the loadMovie command is asynchronous, and loadMovie will overwrite any existing code on the loaded clip. That means Flash will not wait for the load to finish before it processes the next line of code in your example, and when the load finishes, it will overwrite the onPress that you have defined just after the call to loadMovie. In Flash, the events happen in this order

1. start loading the movie into the existing clip
2. define the onPress for the clip
3. finish loading the movie into the clip- and overwrite any existing code on the clip

So - what you need to do is define the onPress AFTER the load has completed. You can do this by using the an instance of the MovieClipLoader class to detect when the loadMovie has finished, and assign the onPress then.

Code:

mcloader = new MovieClipLoader();
mcloader.addListener(this);
mcloader.loadClip(_root.container_mc,"myContent.swf");

function onLoadInit(target_mc:MovieClip){
   if(target_mc == _root.container_mc){
      _root.container_mc.onPress = function(){
           trace("the onPress was defined after loading was complete");
       }
   }
   mcloader.removeListener(this);
}

For more on this, see the help section for MovieClipLoader class. Hope that helps.