Delay response in looping animation?

[sure]

I've yet another stupid question - this has to be simple right?
I have a movie that loops, say when it reaches frame 60 it starts over at 0. I need a button that when pressed will allow the movie to continue to 60, and THEN do a telltarget or a gotoframe or something - so that it can blend seamlessly (into another movieclip or frame within the same) no matter which frame was being played when the button was pressed.
Thanks to anyone who can help me on this!

[curryjon51]

Hi

Couple of things you can do.

First...

Have your button set a "flag" variable on say the _root.timeline... eg _root.go = true.

Then on your frame60, wrap your (now outdated) tell target in an if statement...

if(_root.go){
// do your tell target
}else{
gotoAndPlay(1)
}

or

Second...

something like:

bttn.onRelease = function(){
_root.createEmptyMovieClip("waiter", 999)
_root.waiter.onEnterFrame = function(){
if(yourmc._currentFrame==60){
// do your tell target
this.removeMovieClip()
}
}
}
Will have to check syntax of above ... is just off top of my head, and not checked.

hth

[oldnewbie]

Just set a variable to true on the button press. Then on frame 60, check to see if that condition is true and have your movie clip then do something else than looping back to frame 1.

on(release){
_level0.my_condition = true;
}

Frame 60...

if(_level0.my_condition){
// do something else...
}

With the above, your clip should loop until the condition is true...

[sure]

Ah yes, that makes sense! Thanks a lot, perfect. It's so great to get answers like this, many thanks.