flash script help

• ridg0026

  hopefully this will make sense to someone, bear with me. I'm building a FLASH site with a lengthy animation on the main timeline. I would like to have it so that when the mouse is moved on the stage, the play/pause button appears (allowing for the playing/pausing of the main timeline).

  my code for that piece (which is working fine):
  stop()
  btn_playhead_invisible.addEventL... showbutton)
  function showbutton(myevent:MouseEvent):v... {
  gotoAndPlay("showbutton");
  }

  the problem im having is that I cannot get Flash to recall the state of the play/pause button when the mouse event above re-occurs. I know its because my code calls the movieclip at frame 1 but I dont know how to fix it so that FLASH remembers whether the button was in the pause state or play state.
  my code for the play/pause:
  stop()
  btn_pause.addEventListener(Mouse... pausemain);
  function pausemain(myevent:MouseEvent):vo... {
  MovieClip(root).stop();
  }

  btn_pause.addEventListener(Mouse... showbuttonplay);
  function showbuttonplay(myevent:MouseEven... {
  gotoAndStop("play");
  }

  btn_pause.addEventListener(Mouse... pausemovie);
  function pausemovie(myevent:MouseEvent):v... {
  gotoAndStop("pause");
  }

  anyone?

  ridg0026

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• uan0

  use a boolean variable to store the actual playstate. when you show your button, check the var to decide to jump to 'play' or 'pause' and update the boolean...
  

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  • thanks uan :) googling now...ridg0026
  • > http://livedocs.adob…
    last example could be of useuan

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• ifeltdave0

  to expand on uan:

  var myPlayState:Boolean = true;

  On button click:

  if (myPlayState == true) { pause the movie } else { play the movie }

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  • also on button click:
    myPlayState = !myPlayState
    just flips it to the oppositeifeltdave

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• ridg00260

  thanks guys...very helpful

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