New Component: pauseMyMovie, add a pause at any frame OR add controls to movie Options

[browndrake]

pauseMyMovie 1.0

This component is meant to make it easy to add a 'timed pause' to your movie (all timelines) or to any of your movieClips (individual timeline). OR, you can choose to have controls that will stop/start, with buttons, either all the timelines in the movie, or the timeline of any one movieClip.

It is compatible with sm2 (official release+) and with current pre-release builds swishMiniMax2.

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Note: For those that have never used components before: save the swi to the components folder inside of the SM2 folder(where sm is installed on your system). After saving a swi in the components folder it becomes accessible from the components tab within swishmax. You only then need to drag and drop it onto the stage.

Parameters include:

Controls?....Select true if you want stop/start buttons.
Scope.........Do you want the pause applied to the whole movie or just a specific movieClip?
Delay..........How long do you want the movie paused? (time in seconds)

Instructions:

1. Before even dragging component onto the stage, decide if you want it for the whole movie or for one specific movieClip.
2. If for one specific clip, then drag and drop it into that movieClip. If for whole movie, you can drop it anywhere in the movie.
3. Select to use controls or not. (If you use controls, then the time delay is immaterial, as all restarts must be with button.)
4. Set how long you want the movie/movieClip paused for.
5. If you chose to not use controls you must add the following code to the frame where you want the pause:

CODE

pause.pause()

example: I want a 5 second pause (without using a stop button) when my movie/movieClip gets to frame 25. I will set parameters to: Controls?..False, Scope..wholeMovie, delay..5. I will put on that timeline:

CODE

onFrame(25){
     pause.pause()
}

Here is an example. In the example, there is a three second pause (pause of whole movie) that is called on the 19th frame of the main timeline. ()

NOTE: If you choose to use controls, you can customize them as much as you want and place them wherever you want, on the stage. To customize the controls: expand the controls mc and expand the buttons. You can then change texts, shapes, etc. You can also add other button states.
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Anybody is free to use as they wish. Comments and suggestions are welcome.
Please post any improvements you make.
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Enjoy,

aaron

Attached File(s)

 pauseMyMovie.swi ( 11.05K ) Number of downloads: 70

 

[ancientdust]

hi aaron.
Looks interesting and a nice idea...
Will have to look further into it.
Thanks for sharing :-).