While trying to come up with a way to get two different movies loaded at the same time, to play at different frame rates, I came up with a method to recursively stop all child movies of an as3 MovieClip. I didn’t end up using it, but I thought it might be useful for someone, so here it is:<\/p>\n
[cc lang=’actionscript3′]
\nimport flash.display.DisplayObjectContainer;
\nimport flash.display.MovieClip;<\/p>\n
function stopAll(content:DisplayObjectContainer):void
\n{
\n\tif (content is MovieClip)
\n\t\t(content as MovieClip).stop();<\/p>\n
\tif (content.numChildren)
\n\t{
\n\t\tvar child:DisplayObjectContainer;
\n\t\tfor (var i:int, n:int = content.numChildren; i < n; ++i)\n\t\t{\n\t\t\tif (content.getChildAt(i) is DisplayObjectContainer)\n\t\t\t{\n\t\t\t\tchild = content.getChildAt(i) as DisplayObjectContainer;\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tif (child.numChildren)\n\t\t\t\t\tstopAll(child);\n\t\t\t\telse if (child is MovieClip)\n\t\t\t\t\t(child as MovieClip).stop();\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t}\n\t}\n}\n[\/cc]\n\nThe plan was to use that to stop playing movies, every other frame, and restart them on the alternative frames, but there is apparently no way to tell if a MovieClip is currently playing or not, to know which ones to restart.\n\nI did end up hacking Tweener to add support for a Timer based update method. That way I can adjust the stage FPS to match the older timeline content (at 12fps) and have my Tweener based interactions work at a silky smooth 60 FPS.\n\nI'll post more on that later.\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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