pausing/counting in Flash MX 2004

[mikeinthemoment]

Hi all, great site, thanks for all the useful info so far.

Let me preface this by stating that I'm not as uhmmm...intimately familiar with the underlying language in this program, but since v4 of Flash, I have been learning some interesting things...

Anyway, onto the issue/question:

Ok, in Flash 5, whenever I wanted to make the "play head" loop over x amount of frames x amount of times, where it looks like the movie is paused, all I had to do was the following(for example):
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Frame 1:
a = 0 or 1

Frame 2:
a = a +1
if a > 30
then goto and play 5

Frame 3:
goto and play 2
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This worked like a freakin CHARM in 5. I could adjust the > number to however long I needed for the movie to pause and, by moving the "frame 2" code away from the 1st frame a certain number of frames, I could have animation looping while the movie looked "paused", but this SIMPLE method doesn't appear to work AT ALL in MX2K4.

I have googled myself to death on this one, and searched in this hyeah newbie section for a simple solution, but either I'm blind or the answer hasn't been forthcoming.

I have two questions:

- What happened that this doesn't work anymore??...LOL

and

- What is the FMX2K4 simple equivalent of code for the above loop?

Thanks for your help with what I'm sure is a simple problem for you's!

[prt1]

Try gotoAndPlay(2) one word with capital letters as shown.
MX2004 is case sensitive so 'var1' is not the same as 'Var1'
Code below should work.

Frame 1:
a = 0 ;

Frame 2:
a = a +1;
if (a > 30) {
gotoAndPlay(5);
}

Frame 3:
gotoAndPlay(2);

[nthpixel]

Can you put your actionscript in the as tag so we can see exactly what your code looks like.

[mikeinthemoment]

I tried the below suggestion, and made sure I had enable simple frame actions checked, and when I ran it, in either directly from the "timeline screen" or the Test Movie mode, flash seemed to ignore the if command and go right to the gotoAndPlay command.

I've found a solution that seems to work well enough though:

Frame 1

function pause(){
    play();
    clearInterval(timer);
};

Target frame to pause on:

timer = setInterval(pause, XXXX); 
stop();

Thanks for the suggestion though!
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Originally Posted by prt1

Try gotoAndPlay(2) one word with capital letters as shown.
MX2004 is case sensitive so 'var1' is not the same as 'Var1'
Code below should work.

Frame 1:
a = 0 ;

Frame 2:
a = a +1;
if (a > 30) {
gotoAndPlay(5);
}

Frame 3:
gotoAndPlay(2);