On the main stage, right click on the arrow that’s intended to play your movie clip <i>forward</i>, and select Actions. Instead of using on(release) as a trigger for the motion, we’ll use on(press) to start it, and on(release) to stop it – so that the closet items scroll while the user holds down the mouse button and stops when they release it:
on (press) {
_root.menu.play( ) ;
}
on (release) {
_root.menu.stop ( ) ;
}
This makes the forward button work in the same manner as the play and pause buttons from the lesson on creating video playback controls in Flash – but it combines both functions into a single button, acting on instance name menu on the root level.
I’ve run out of space on this lesson template, but we’ve still got one last crucial thing to do: we’ve got to wrangle the backward-scrolling button into working, so click here to continue on to the next steps of this lesson.
