Real newbie question here, thought it would have been easy but don’t see a clear way to do this. I have a symbol that has an animation. the first frame of the symbol there is a stop action. On the main stage I have a button. When I click the button I want to start the animation in the symbol. How…

Or, You can add a Custom Behaviour to the Symbol’s Custom Behaviours , with an Action to start the symbols timeline. Then on the button Actions add a Trigger Custom Behaviour and use the name of the symbols Custom Behaviour. Simples… :smile: CBExample 2.hype.zip (14.7 KB)

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Button to start animation inside a symbol

Photics December 11, 2015, 11:01pm 2

This is accomplished with the Hype JavaScript API...

Controlling Symbols with Javascript