FLASH: Remembering variables after leaving a swf

[Jurus]

Thanks for the quick response. Answers below



In a message dated 4/5/00 1:32:33 PM Pacific Daylight Time,

bubaalphenaar [dot] nl

writes:


<< That won't be necessary.

 As far as I understand what your trying to do is that you have a flash

 animation that has somewhere at the end of the movie some interaction which

 results with a "get URL" action. which leads the user to a following page,

 and your trying to create something that when the user goes 'back' on the

 following page using his browser's 'back' button the user doesn't see the

 animation anymore but a static frame that's also at the end of your

 animation.>>



Yes, this is correct.




<<  is this is right, if yes... then you're now thinking ways too complicated 

:) >>


I thought so.  I am open to anything that works better because this little 

thing is 

driving me crazy.


 


<< You'll only have to put a frame loaded command into the first frame of your

 intro animation movie (as suggested earlier on the list). if the movie is in

 the cache, then the movie is already loaded, and if you've got the

 frameloaded command set up right to go to your latest frame. The user

 doesn't see the animation anymore and will go straight to your latest frame

 :) do you get it, or is the above in a very large grey area for you ? >>>



Yes, but the only problem is that the user never gets to see the animation 

again 

after that.  This is the ultimate goal:


+ The user enters the site

+ The animation plays

+  The user presses a button which goes to an HTML link

+  When they hit back it goes to a static frame

+  When then hit back again, or when they re-load the movie, the animation

starts from the beginning, and the cycle is repeated.


I tried it by having the animation start and at the end, do a get URL to call

the static site, but it flashes a blank screen, delays a little bit and goes 

to

the static screen which does not look very good.  I tried using the get

variable commands below, but it didn't work.




<< p.s. why does the user have to use the 'back' button, is this a necessary

 and usefull action to the user. seems to me it's useless interaction.  >>


Yes, because the HTML links go to Corporate partner HTML sites, and the

client wants these links.  If the user goes to the partner site, and then they

want to return to my client's site, they don't want the animation start over 

again.



I still can't figure out why the set variable will not work:


This is what I did:


ON THE BUTTON THAT LOADS THE HTML LINK:


    On (Release)

          Set Variable: "html" = 1

          Get URL ("http://www.xxx.com/page.html")

    End On




AT FRAME ONE:



    If ("html" = 1)

        Go to and Stop (149)

    Else

    End If




 

ON THE STATIC FRAME (149)



    Stop

    Set Variable: "html" = 0



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