Pausing the action script motions and child movies

[jithu2000]

I am doing a presentation demonstrating hardware components. For that I have used frame by frame animation for showing components. The explanation for these components are done as subtitle scrolling. It is created using actionscript 3 motion. The particular subtitle text will be generated according to the currentFrame. When I pause the entire movie i need to pause the scrolling text that i created using action script. I was searching for a week , how to do this. Is there event to identify whether main movie is stopped or paused. Or any other way to do this. Please help to do this.


The child movies and sound i added in time line should be paused while pausing the movie ....

Please Help me ...Thanks in advance

[sk_86]

you have to reference the child movieClip. lets say you are on the main timeline and this is where your demonstration is at. inside this we have a movieclip called buttons_mc and inside that we have another movieClip called someClip_mc from the main timeline you would write:

buttons_mc.someClip_mc.stop();

stop can be replaced with whatever you like.
hope i answered your ?
gluck

[jithu2000]

Thanks for your help....

But I need to know the event for knowing whether main movie is stopped ???

The function to stop the sub movie should be invoked when the main movie (ie SWF file) playing is topped...

How can i do this...Plz reply...

[kingundkong]

just put it in a boolean variable:
var isRunning:Boolean=false;
and when the movie starts playing you set it to true and when it reaches the end of all your frames your dispatch an event changing isRunning to false again.
I hope this helps!

[jithu2000]

I want to stop the submovies , when the main movie is stopped in between playing. ie not at the end of frames.. Whenever the user purposefully stops or pause the main movie, submovie and scrolling should stop...

[abeall]

AFAIK, there's no built in event to tell when a movie is playing or stopped, surprisingly. However, you are in control of when the main movie is stopped, so you could use a recursive function stop all children and sub children:

function stopAllChildren(container:DisplayObjectContainer){
    var i:int = container.numChildren, child:DisplayObject, mc:MovieClip;
    while(i--){
        child = container.getChildAt(i);
        if(child is MovieClip){
            mc = child as MovieClip;
            mc.stop();
            if(mc.numChildren)
                stopAllChildren(mc);
        }
    }
}

[jithu2000]

Thanks....Let me see whether it works.