Flash CS4, AS3 animation issue

Question

I was making an animation in flash cs4 and i was making a play/pause button. Everything pauses when clicked but the play button gives me an issue. I have some movie clips with animations in them so when i tell them to play, instead of resuming where they were, they play regardless of whether or not they should be playing. Is there a way to fix this?

Ok, its just very hard to troubleshoot without knowing the structure of your document. Most likely you just need to keyframe more appropriately... — citizen conn
What exactly do you mean by that and sorry I can't post the .fla. Is there like a command in as3 that will completely pause everything in the whole animation and completely resume everything. Like stop and resume the thread? — Globmont
No there's not. Its all a matter of how your movieclips are organized. Try doing it with a very simple animation first and then work from there. — citizen conn

gltovar gltovar · Accepted Answer · 2011-06-29T05:09:07

you could try recursively going though all the movieclips in a moveclip and stoping them, from there modifiying the below's link source to play wouldn't be too bad either.

http://www.auricom.com/devote/using-recursion-to-perform-an-action-on-all-displayobject-children

one thing in the the above link, is if there is a sprite with a movieclip his code wouldn't traverse into a the sprite, here is a small mod for his code to catch that:

private function stopAllMovieClips(mc:*) : void {

        trace("Stop: ", mc.name);

         if(mc is MovieClip) mc.stop();

         for (var i:int = 0; i < mc.numChildren; i++) 
         if (mc.getChildAt(i) is DisplayObjectContainer){  /// here is the mod
                      stopMovieClip(mc.getChildAt(i));
                 }

}

stopAllMovieClips(this);

Flash CS4, AS3 animation issue

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