Script triggered animation

[backspin]

Hi.  I'm new to Hippo and trying to wrap my mind around the way Hippo approaches certain things.

I have a circle and a button.  The circle has a simple animation starting at frame 1. It just moves to the right.

I don't want it to start until I press the button.  Here is the code:


Movie General():
var Animation = false;
GotoAndStop(0);

Movie OnUpdate():
if( Animation == true ){
     GotoAndPlay(1);
}

Button OnClick()
Animation=true;


This starts out the way I want - the circle is not visible.  When I click the button, the circle appears in the frame(1) position, but the animation doesn't play.  

What am I doing wrong?

[backspin]

I think I figured it out.

Turn auto-play off, create the animations at different points on the timeline, and then use PlayClip(a,b) to run the animations as needed using button events.  Is that the general idea?

[Hippani]

Yes you can do it that way or turn off the timeline.