Comments on: Flash Tutorial: Play a movie clip a set number of times and then stop

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 18:23:40 +0000

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Thanks for reading,
Mike

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By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:23:34 +0000

Hi,

Thanks for a great tutorial. New to actionscript, and I´ve been looking for the right way to play a movie clip a certain times before moving onto the next clip.

This explains it perfectly – helped me get past this hurdle – onwards to the next one.

cheers

By: T

Tue, 13 May 2008 15:36:08 +0000

perfect execution of instruction! informative and very helpful for those of us new to code.Thanks.

By: Linh

Linh — Sun, 04 May 2008 18:46:26 +0000

wow thank you Mike,
I’m doing my Flash assignment and your tutorial is really helpful.
Thank to your entry I can finish a very important part of my assignment, which is somehow similar to this
Keep on posting such great works ^^

By: Mejia

Mejia — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:46:59 +0000

Hi Mike,

I was surfing the web for flash tutorials and I found yours. I would like to thank you for having the time to replay to people that have questions about your code or want to do some changes. I think that’s great because most people don’t do that.

thanks again, keep the good work..

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:47:18 +0000

Hi Christer,

What you want to do is kind of similar to what’s happening here, but with a little modification. I’ll take a look at it later today and see if I can explain it for you fully, but a quick heads up is that instead of using this code on the enter frame,

_root.counter += 1;

you would apply it to your button similar to this:

on(release) {
_root.counter +=1;
}

Then, you would use the following script: (notices I changed the first if to be less than or equal to 3, the number of times you want the button to be clicked).

if (_root.counter <= 3) {
_root.mc_ball.stop();
}

else {
_root.mc_ball.gotoAndPlay(”begin”);
}

This was just a quick look at it, so I haven’t thoroughly tested it yet, but hopefully it gets you started. Let me know if you figure it out, but I’ll get back to you with a more thorough explanation.

Thanks for reading!

- Mike

By: Christer

Christer — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:19:36 +0000

Hi!
just read your tutorial! nice
But I wonder if you can help me in some matter ?
I want to be able to use a button, and the button wont work before the third time I press it.. For example you press on a ball, and nothing happens. You push it a second time and nothing happens. Yu push it a third time and i turns green and run away any help?

By: Jerry Galino

Jerry Galino — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:07:27 +0000

I found your site on faves.com bookmarking site.. I like it ..gave it a fave for you..ill be checking back later

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:50:43 +0000

Hey Paul,

Sorry that this isn’t working for you… If you can email me the file: contact@spitshine-design.com, I can take a look at it for you, or you can try posting the AS code here and I’ll see if I can debug it…

- Mike