FLASH: Bookmarking in Flash - Workaround?

[Jason Bouwmeester]

Been thinking, I haven't seen anything on here that this issue has been

solved regarding Flash and bookmarking specific portions. Anyways, I think I

may have a workaround, just haven't had a chance to test it out yet. 


I know that using the FS_Command you can tell a Flash movie to start playing

at a specific frame.


I think that it is possible to have a link that says Bookmark this page but

tell it exactly what to bookmark.


Now, I would think that within a movie there shouldn't be too many pages

needing bookmarked (i.e. content only, samples, et al.) so if there isn't a

lot to bookmark:


What if one was to bookmark a page called content1.htm. Now content1.htm

would be an EXACT duplicate of the main movie page, EXCEPT it would have a

javascript funtion that would run when the page is loaded making the movie

start at Content 1 instead of the beginning. The same could be done with

Content 2, Content 3, etc. 


The only reason I say this would be good with a few pages that need to be

bookmarked is because the Flash html page would need to be duplicated for

each page.


Anyways, any further thoughts on the technique I have outlined above?


HTH,

Jason


Jason Bouwmeester

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