Webmaster Forum / Flash / Flash Actionscript / October 2005

Alright, I've made a generic fast forward function for you. Basically, you just
pass a reference to a MovieClip as a parameter.

Have a Button and the MovieClip that should be fast forward-able in the same
frame, and write this code in a layer in the same frame. The Button should be
named ff_btn, and the MovieClip in question is here named anim_mc. Basically
you can add any MC you want to.

Look through the code, and if there's something you don't understand, I can
for sure explain that for you :)

function fastForwardMC(mc:MovieClip):Void{
    var ff_mc = mc.createEmptyMovieClip("ff_mc", 999);
    ff_mc.onEnterFrame = function(){
        trace(this._parent._currentframe);
        if(this._parent._currentframe <= this._parent._totalframes-2){
            this._parent.gotoAndPlay(this._parent._currentframe+2);
        } else {
            this._parent.gotoAndStop(this._parent._totalframes);
            this.removeMovieClip();
        }
    }
}

ff_btn.onRelease = function(){
    fastForwardMC(anim_mc);
}