check if level exists...

[[raz]]

hi,

working on a menu system that loads a movie into a level upon button press (basic stuff), always loading the movies into the same level...

what i'm wondering is, how i could check to see if a level is ready or not, to then load the next level...

purpose? on button press, i'd like to have the loaded level movie, i.e. about.swf on level 2, play a set number of frames as an outro sequence...then load the desired next movie onto that same level once that outro sequence has ended.

all loaded movies will have a similar outro sequence, the same number of frames long, within the same numbered frames.

i.e. i have a menu system, on level 0, two buttons, one is "about" the other is "links"

when you press "about" the about.swf loads into level 2, plays, stops on frame 50

when you press links, the code reads...

on (release) {
_root._level2.gotoAndPlay(51);
}

which plays the outro sequence, frames 51 - 100...

now comes the tricky part (for me that is)...how do i check to see if level 2 has reached frame 100 before i load up the links.swf into that same level? I'm assuming there has to be some sort of loop checking to see if frame 100 on level 2 has been reached, but i don't know all that much about actionscripting...so when frame 100 has been reached, the desired movie (based on button press) will load smoothly after the outro sequence of the previous movie into that same exact level, replacing the previous one...

so the question is, how do you check to see what frame a level is on, all within the actionscripting of one button?

like...

on (release) {
_root._level2.gotoAndPlay(50)
}

if ...(help me !!) level 2 is at frame 100, then go to

loadMovieNum(selectedmovie.swf,2)

otherwise, wait till level 2 is at frame 100, then load the next movie...


i hope this all makes sense and you guys can help me out...thanks

[i++]

hi raz,

there are different ways to solve your problem.

either ask the _currentframe of _level2 from _level0:

if(_level2._currentframe >= 100){...}

or let the about.swf set a variable if it has reached frame 100:
actionscript for frame 100 of about.swf:

_level0.outroReady = 1;

and on _level0 in a frame loop or enterFrame-handler:

if(outroReady){...}

or let the about.swf call the loadMovie-command:
actionscript for frame 100 of about.swf:

_level2.loadMovie(selectedMovie);

hope it helps.

i++

[[raz]]

Originally posted by i++


either ask the _currentframe of _level2 from _level0:

if(_level2._currentframe >= 100){...}

i++

this seems the most understandable to my newbie knowledge of scripting... but my newbieness is most with "if" commands...

so then, what would come after the if statement? if correct, it would load the next movie, however, what if it hasn't reached frame 100 yet? this is kind of like a oldschool preloader in a sense right? if frame x is loaded, go to and play frame x, then if that came back false, the next frame would tell it to go back to frame 1 or something...but my question is can all this checking and rechecking be done all within the one script of the "on (release)"

so it would be like this...

on (release) {
_root._level2.gotoAndPlay(50)
if(_level2._currentframe >= 100)
?????
?????
loadMovieNum(links.swf,2)
}

what replaces the question marks above? what if it hasn't reached 100, then how do you repeat the checking process until it has reached 100, then continue on in the script, loading the next movie via the loadMovieNum action?

thanks for the help so far, appreciate it greatly...

[[raz]]

anyone?

[farafiro]

hey [raz], what i++ said is right but u just need to put it on an onEnterFrames to check it, so

//on the links button
on(release){
_level2.gotoAndPlay(51)
}
//then on an empty MC or if your are on MX make it on the _root
onClipEvent(enterFrame){
if(_level2._currentFrame == 100){
_level2.loadMovieNum("links.swf")
}
}

but I mostly recommend to make it with variables, cause if the second loaded movie has 100 frame, it will be re-loaded again.
but with variable u can stop checking if the variable has anoher value

also if u used the onEnterFrame with Flash MX, u can delete it later

[brusli]

instead of
if(_level2._currentframe >= 100){...}
try
if(_level2._currentframe >= _level2._totalframes){...}

[anonymous]

More simply...

if(_level2._width > 0){
// then something is loaded on that level...
}