ActionScript 3.0 :: If Statement To Unload Any Active Swf Before Starting Another
Aug 10, 2010
I have a video player of sorts that plays one of 6 videos based on which buttons is clicked. Everything works perfectly if the user selects the "stop" button on the video control bar before switching to another video. But, if the current video is left playing when another video is started, the audio from the first video continues on overlapping the second one.
I know this is a common problem in AS3 and should be easy to remedy with unloadAndStop() but I can't get my if statement to work right. I'm working with the videos march_mc and august_mc to figure this out. Basically I'm trying to tell Flash that if march_mc is playing when august_mc is requested to unload march_mc then play august_mc. This works if march_mc was playing to begin with, but if I try to play august_mc when march_mc isn't playing it returns a null object error. In my head, the if statement should prevent this from happening but I'm doing something wrong...
Here's my code that's on august_mc:
augustPlay_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, startAugust);
function startAugust(event:MouseEvent):void{
if (MovieClip(root).march_mc.currentLoaded == MovieClip(root).march_mc.totalLoaded)
{
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I want to fix that.
Here's my structure.
I have a swf which load the "template" which load another swf which load the movie
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But the problem is that the car is moving when you controll it so the bullet stays on the same position and I want it to follow the car and start from the same position as the car whereever it goes.
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