flash event listener for movieclip end?

Question

Could anyone advise the best way to trigger a functiont when a movieclip animation finishes? I figure an eventlistener could handle this, but not sure the best way to go abo

Answer 1

You could use an enterframe listener that checks to see if the movieclip's currentFrame == totalFrames, and if they are equal, dispatch a custom event that you make (like TimelineComplete).

Another option would be to create a small component that dispatches your custom TimelineComplete event, and place that component on the final frame of any animation you'd like to monitor. This would allow you to get more creative in the future and add things like a delay before the event is triggered.

You've got a few options, none of which are ideal in my opinion, however they do work, and if done well they won't become unwieldy. The one thing I wouldn't do is add a little bit of code on the last frame. That gets rather hard to keep track of over time.