Fast Clicking Freezes the Application!

[davidgue]

Thanks for the suggestions guys. I have a basic doubt here. Isn't gotoAndPlay a statement that you can use as a mouse event? As in, shouldnt it be used inside of on (release) or some event like that? Because I tried using the gotoAndPlay("Stage2") on the last frame of the scene and it did nothing . So I assume it is because of that. Any suggestions? Thanks for being patient guys - if this doesnt work i would definitely post the fla.

[guitarman]

Good point, Here is what i come up with:

At the last frame, put this script:

this.onEnterFrame = function() {
gotoAndPlay("stage2");
stop();
trace("enter new stage");
}

Becareful when using this as it will basically point you to the stage2 all the times when the movie is played (this, refer to the stage itself, i guess )

Another one idea is to create a movie clip (invisible one) place it in the last frame and give it a name, aMovie, for instance. And then add this script to the last frame:

aMovie.onEnterFrame = function() {
gotoAndPlay("stage2");
stop();
trace("enter new stage");
}

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You may wanna test out both method for your own understanding.

[davidgue]

Guitarman,

Thanks for the suggestion. I was thinking along the same lines. I tried both the codes, unfortunately neither worked! It seems straightforward but I guess am doing something wrong. I created a test file in which I am pretty much trying to do the same thing. This is the link:

http://www.speedyshare.com/403410536.html


Please take a look at it and let me know what you think. As you can see Scene 3 is not loading. I tried the invisible movie clip idea too..but I was doing something wrong with that and it didnt work. Thanks a lot!

[guitarman]

david, I was busy with my assignment and now i'm ready to look into ur issue.
Please follow this instruction based on the file you sent to me:

1- On scene 2, add another keyframe next to the first keyframe. On that keyframe, add the following code:

[davidgue]

Guitarman,

Thanks so much for taking time off to help me out. This code worked great!!!! I can't tell you how helpful this has been.. And the link is really useful too - i haven't read it fully, but I see the problem with gotoAndPlay(). I had a doubt though- what is the significance of using the this.onEnterFrame here. I typed in just these lines on the last frame of the movie clip (as opposed to entering it as a function):

_parent.gotoAndPlay(2);
stop();
trace("enter new stage");

And it seems to work fine. Your thoughts?

Thanks again mate!

[guitarman]

good to hear that david.
well, the onEnterFrame is just based on my taste, nothing important