Movieclip Frame

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• ar2rsawseen Maintainer

  October 2015

  @Ninjadoodle not exactly, but you can set stop actions to specific frames, which will execute Event.COMPLETE, in which callback you can do what you want and decide to run animation further or go to other animation, etc.
  

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• Ninjadoodle Member

  October 2015

  Hi @ar2rsawseen
  
  Thank you for the help It's not a big issue, as I'm using a workaround which is petty simple.
  
  Is there any chance of something like this being added in the future?
  
  I think it would be really useful to have a .currentFrame property.
  

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• ar2rsawseen Maintainer

  October 2015

  could you provide an example where you would want to use it?
  
  for example, if you would use it in enterframe, there is no guarantee that you would event catch the specific frame you need, it might be skipped due to low fps, etc.
  
  Basically it would be unreliable in such way to use it.

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• Ninjadoodle Member

  October 2015

  I'm thinking more along the lines of using a movieclip to store images. Let's say I have 10 diff aliens in a scene. All the same movie clip, just different frames. Now I want to check whether the alien you clicked is frame 2, 3 or so on.
  
  Another example is a lightswitch. I know I can set a on / off property to true or false, but I could also check the current mc frame.
  
  I used Flash a lot, so I'm it's to this kind of workflow. To sum it up ... I'm using this more in an onTouch / mouse down situation.
  
  Thank you again!

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• ar2rsawseen Maintainer

  October 2015

  Probably it is doable, but please add it to github issues, so we won't forget

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• antix Member

  October 2015

  I looked at using MovieClip in my game but decided against it because I need my animation frames to be able to be offset on their x and y axis, and MovieClip doesn't seem to support that.

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• ar2rsawseen Maintainer

  October 2015

  @antix, you can provide x, y positions in frame, or even tween them from one position to other

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• antix Member

  October 2015

  @ar2saween - hmm, I think I better revisit MovieClip

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• totebo Member

  February 2016 edited February 2016

  Added this to Github: https://github.com/gideros/gideros/issues/214

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• totebo Member

  February 2016

  @ninjadoodle, what was your workaround for this? A timer running in parallel with the MovieClip? Or something else?

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• Ninjadoodle Member

  February 2016

  Hi @totebo
  
  Because I mainly use it to store store several variations of images, for example (a lever in up , middle and down positions), all I do is just increment a variable each time the movie clip is pressed.
  
  This way I can check the variable instead of the mc frame.
  
  I haven't tried with a timer or checking for frames while the animation is running.
  
  Having the frame property would be really useful I think

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