Trying to understand how the AS works.

[sebastienjb]

I'm at my wits end,

I attached a code to "frame 1" in a movie clip, and the movie stops on frame 16, yet the rollover script is still running on frame 16.

How do I make sure it only runs when its on frame 1? or whatever set of frames it's in?

so it looks like this
LAYER FRAMES
SCRIPT |1|
BUTTON |1------------------16|

But the code in "script" is still active and running way passed frame 1, I don't get it.

is their way to stop the code from running outside its assigned frame? like a stop command? I even used "if" conditions and it still runs the code.

And their is a stop command on frame 16 that so it's not looping back to
frame 1.

Thanks for reading, I'm really getting annoyed, haha.

[raghu_thejus]

try removing listener using removeEventListener in second frame like:

mc.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER,buttonRollOver);

i suppose mc is name of m\your movieclip.

if u add a listener to a movieclip it wil b present for that movieclip until it is removed using removeEventListener.if it is a Enter_Frame event then even if u remove the object from stage also the listener wil be active,in such cases if u dnt want listener remove it using removeEventListener.

[sebastienjb]

hey, thanks! while your answer didn't fix my problem, it lead me to learn this.

delete (this.onRollOver);

which solved the problem, now i'm trying to understand how to loop a code, I found some loop tutorials but their talking about things that are way over my head at this level, like "++i" which i don't understand.

right now I'm trying to make the buttons, when they are on their "on state" constantly check a variable called "page" so if it changes it goes back to "off state" I put it the code on the last frame of the movie clip and it looks like this.

---
stop();
trace("ON TEST 1")
trace(_root.page);
if (_root.page!=1){
gotoAndPlay(1);
}
----

I know it's not working because if it was it would constantly say "ON TEST 1" in the box so I know its constantly running the code, so I need to find out how to loop that code. any ideas?

I wish I could just use labels in the code and make it jump back to a certain point in the code.

[sebastienjb]

hmm, do you guys think if I add an event that sent the movie clip back to the same frame it would run the code again? or should i create an identical set of frames that jump back and forth between each other until the page number changes?

I know their is probably more efficient ways of doings this, I'm still learning and i really want to understand everything instead of just putting in code that magically works, you know?

edit: well that just crashed my flash -.-