Matching Frame Numbers on movie clips

Okay so here's the deal: I have 4 of the same movie clips dragged onto the stage. The clip plays a movie that has a box changing different colors. There's also code in the movie clips that makes it go to random frames so not all the movie clips on the stage will play the same even though they derive from the same movie clip. In my main timeline I just have two frames, but it has script that makes it stopped on the first frame. I want to be able to have my code tell when all the four movie clips are on the same frame (frame 200), and when they are go to frame 2 on the main timeline.

I dont know if my explanation was too difficult but if you want me to provide an fla of what I have so far I can. I'm trying to use _currentframe.

Thanks

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Try this in your main timeline right before the stop();



Replace mC# with your movieClips instanceNames.
make sure there is a stop(); in the second frame or this will loop endlessly.

There's no explaining how much I love you. I would like to know a lot more about you and how you came up with this solution so fast. You saved me additional hours. I've already spent hours upon hours trying to figure this out! I shall show you my "game" when I'm finished.\

Edit: I'm trying to do one more thing. I'm trying to define a range a frames. I want it to be if its from frame 200 to 300 instead of just frame 200. I tried >=200<300 but it looks to be using both too litterally.

I did it now. I don't know if it's the best way but here it is.

Glad I could help.
Reading & trying devolop speed. (more trying than reading) Whenever you have nothing to do just open a new movie and play around, it's not like you can break anything if there isn't a project depending on it Also, a few good names to remember in Flash, "lostinbeta, digitalMedia, unflux, voetsjoeba, sencular" not necisarily in that order but none the less I've learned a great deal from posts by them.

Awesome, thanks.

Havent tested this one,

Ought to do the trick though

EDIT // I forgot to switch a variable name earlier

Here it is..

http://www.buzzybeetle.net/discofloor.html

I haven't used the new code you just posted. Still lookin at that..

However, the code you posted beforehand has helped me out a huuuge deal. I don't think I used it in it's tidiest possible way, but it worked! I only run into one problem: when a level starts up all the blocks may be the same color and the level ends. This only happens with the first level in a section, and after that it's it fat chance it will happen.

This keeps track of how many movieClips _currentframe is 200-300, the first time the code is run it initializes it at zero, each time after that it is reseting it to zero.

This is probably the first thing yor still looking at.
_root["block"+i] is referencing a movieclip in _root, puting the string "block" & the number that i is at in the loop together making a new string that is seen by Flash as the instanceName of a movieClip, an object or a variable.
you can also use this["firstPart" + variable] & _parent["firstPart" + variable] the same way. The only difference between the three is where Flash will start looking for the clip/variable/object.
So if our loop is at 3 then _root["block"+i]._currentframe is seen as _root.block3._currentframe by Flash.
count++ is just adding 1 to the number of movieClips that return true to the "if" statement.

This next part would have had me scratching my head awhile ago, it's called a "tertiary" & lostinbeta gives a most exelent explaination Here (halfway through 6th post)

Basically this,

translates to this,



As for the movieclips all being the same color once in awhile i'm guessing you have no conditional statement in your randomization function.
Somthing close to this should fix it,

This finds an average of all values, if the average is equal to every one of them by themself then they are all the same, if they are all the same it rewrites values 1 & 3 to 3 & 1 leaving 2 & 4 as they are ensuring that all of the cubes random values will never be the same.

Your game kinda reminds me of a Rubix Cube

Hey, sorry I haven't posted on this for a while. I got a little busy with some things. I'll implement what you showed me then I'll show it to you again. Thanks a lot!

Another thing: How busy are you? It seems that concepts of programming come really natural to you, and I was wondering if you'd like to help me out with a game. The animator Bryan Waterman is going to make graphics cut scenes for the game. He makes the Cartoon "Waterman" at http://www.watermanstudios.com I make the website!

Why not have a variable on the root timeline that holds a value, and adjust that value through AS on frame 200 of the movieclip?

Example...

Frame on _root timeline has something like

And on frame 200 of the movieclip symbol add in Although I never recommend using _root to target things, I don't really feel like getting into targetting and variable scopes and such, so as long as you aren't loadMovie-ing this into another movie, you should be fine.