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I am trying to get a button to replay a movie but no luck. Thanks to XemonerdX He gave me the code to get a button to play a movie,..
// place on your button
on (release) {
_root.myMC.play();
}

//
That worked very well, but what I am trying to do is after clicking on the play button, I want it to "disapear" and then on last frame of movie, I want to have another button labelled "replay". I am stuck on what code to use for this. I have tried using alpha fade at 0% but then the button "play" doesen't seem to work? My questons are these, how to incorporate a second button labelled "replay?" with correct code? And how to get the first button labelled "play" to dissapear when clicked so that only the movie clip is played and then when movie clip stops, I want the "replay?" button to appear. Thanks to anyone who can help.

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on the play button - keep your code the same, but after the play command - try
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ActionScript:
on(release){
        _root.myMC.play();
        buttonInstancename._visable=false;
}

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first of all - it should be _visible and not _visable

second.. if the code is on the button and you need to target the button itself from within it's code you can use "this"..

try:

ActionScript:
on (release) {
        _root.myMC.play();
        this._visible = false;
}

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<<< loves to spell things wrong

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it's better to spell wrong than do stupid mistakes.. lol!

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<<< likes to make those too

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Thanks guys, but I couldn't get that to work, the

ActionScript:
buttonInstancename._visable=false;

ActionScript:
on (release) {
        gotoAndPlay("Scene 1", 1);
        
}

ActionScript:
on (release) {
        _root.john.play();
        
}

ActionScript:
on (release) {
        gotoAndPlay("Scene 1", 1);
}

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use _root.john.gotoAndPlay(2) instead.. this would move the playhead to the second frame (after the play-button) and play the animation to the end (where your replay button is)..

I would reccomend to you to get rid of the scenes.. scenes are BAD.. they are a plague.. search this forum for "bad scenes" and you will get a LOT of threads where we explain why they are so bad

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Thanks ShapeShifter, but I tried that and it didn't work, ? I also used (5) and so on, but it still takes me back to the start of movie? where the "play" button is. OH, there is only one Scene 1 no others, just the default one? I'll keep trying... BTW, love that little character you have within your texts, ha ha, I haven't reached that stage yet!
Also what does the moderator mean by....AS-tags?

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hm.. can you zip up the file and post it here?

sorry 'bout that short add.. I usually write these short attention-messages but never think of that one might not know what it is.. check the picture you should use AS-tags to embrace your code-snippets.. this way the code's readability improves a lot.. I fixed your last post - you can see how it looks now

haha.. I found that gif in my Temps and thought that it represents the best with programmig

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Sorry late reply, bin busy. Here it is zipped for you to try work out, I appreciate your involvment. It is nothing special the movie clip, just a test of how to use a play and play again button. Thanks for taking a look.

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I just noticed it didn't attach? I used winrar,, so will send again when i've downloaded Winzip. And try using that. Cheers.

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Here is the zip file ,, I hope, I used WinZip 10 this time.

Attachment: johntest.zip
This has been downloaded 425 time(s).

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Finally figured it out, phew! Thanks all for your help, great forum this.
Here is the zip file with finished movie.

Attachment: new john2.zip
This has been downloaded 839 time(s).

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