Controlling a MC's timeline

[kingkelly]

Hey everyone,

Im wondering if its possible to control a movieclips timeline a bit more than the simple play, stop functions.

I was hoping by pressing a button, it would make the MC's playhead not just jump to frame 20, but play to it.

So if the movieclip's timeline is on frame 60, I press a button and it scrubs all the way back to frame 20. Click another button and it scrubs to frame 40, etc....

I hope you guys get what im trying to say

[eki]

PHP Code:

this.onEnterFrame = function(){
if(myMc._currentframe != frameNumberToGo){
  if(myMc._currentframe > frameNumberToGo){
    myMc.prevFrame();
  } else{
    myMc.nextFrame();
 }
}else{
  delete this.onEnterFrame;
}
} 


[kingkelly]

Oooo thanks a bunch!

So to make this code work, do I keep both these lines and replace frameNumberToGo with the frame number?:

if(myMc._currentframe != frameNumberToGo){
if(myMc._currentframe > frameNumberToGo){

Im a bit lost, cant get it to work. I have the code on the first frame, and motion tweened myMc, but it just plays through. What should the buttons be doing?

[eki]

So to make this code work, do I keep both these lines and replace frameNumberToGo with the frame number?:

Yes you're right on this

About your second point:

PHP Code:

function runMc(frameNumberToGo){
myMc.stop();
  this.onEnterFrame = function(){ 
if(myMc._currentframe != frameNumberToGo){ 
  if(myMc._currentframe > frameNumberToGo){ 
    myMc.prevFrame(); 
  } else{ 
    myMc.nextFrame(); 
 } 
}else{ 
  delete this.onEnterFrame; 
} 
}  
}

//on your button:

myButton.onRelease= function(){
runMc(frameNumberToGo);
}