Is there any way of knowing that a looping movie clip has reached a given frame?

petec

I've got a looping animation using code similar to this:

self.anim = MovieClip.new{ {1, 10, self.animFrames[1]}, {11, 20, self.animFrames[2]} } self.anim:setGotoAction(20, 1)

I want to trigger a sound every time the loop starts (so on frame 1 of the animation). Is there any way of doing this? If so, can it be used to trigger on any frame of the animation (e.g. if I wanted to trigger a sound on frame 5)?

Thanks
Pete

techdojo

Not with the existing system.

The only way to do this would be to create a new class that wraps lists of smaller movie clips that you'd chain together in a seemless sequence, however you'd then be able to pickup the end of a smaller sequence (using the COMPLETE event), trigger whatever event you wanted (sound effects etc) and then continue the sequence.

Alternatively you could create a new class that was inspired by MovieClip and had these extra features.

Sorry I couldn't be of any more help.

petec

@techdojo - Thanks for the reply and the suggestion. As the animation starts with a touch event I may just fudge it in this case by using a timer to play the sound at the correct time.

techdojo

No worries, that should work, but won't be very responsive to changes. Does the TNT animator library give you that flexibility?

petec

I agree that it will be a pain if I change things, but luckily it is in a very simple situation so I think it will be OK. I don't know about TNT animator library as I've not played with it. I'll take a look sometime.