Question

I’m thinking of making a movieclip which stops itself at certain points (just with stop(); at certain keyframes in the movieclip timeline), then the user is prompted to continue the clip.

What is the best why to listen for the stopping of the movieclip? I think I want an event listener that detects when the movieclip is stopped, but I don’t know if there is one.

Many thanks

Answer 1

Because you have to manually stop a MovieClip via stop() you can easily manually dispatch your own event on the same frame using dispatchEvent()

For example, on a frame you could have:

stop();
dispatchEvent(
    new Event("movieclip_stopped");
);

And the listener for that MovieClip would be:

myMovie.addEventListener("movieclip_stopped", _stopHandler);
function _stopHandler(e:Event):void
{
    trace('mc was stopped');
}