RE: FLASH: Randomization in Flash

[David L. Salvaggio]

Marc...understand your technique but the problem is it will be displayed

immediately when the user comes to the page.  So we cant run it from a users

click (although a hidden button with a mouse over may work if all else

fails).  Do you know a way to do it without user interaction?


dls

dlsnueweb [dot] com

www.nueweb.com



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From: ownerchinwag [dot] com [ownerchinwag [dot] com]On">mailto:ownerchinwag [dot] com]On Behalf Of Marc

> Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media

> Sent: Monday, January 10, 2000 2:03 PM

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> Subject: Re: FLASH: Randomization in Flash

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> At 10:32 AM 1/10/00 , you wrote:

>

> >Anyone know how to randomize a bunch of MCs so that a random one is shown

> >when a user visits the page.  Would be helpfull if it were done

> in Flash3.

> >Thanks.

>

> In flash4 can use random function. In Flash3 you next a series of movie

> clips (one per frame) with identical instance names in another

> movie clip.

> These keep cycling but each one starts with a blank frame and a Stop

> action. You rely on a user action (mouse click) to tell target

> one of these

> (whichever of these happens to be current) to play. When it plays, it

> simply moves to frame 2 where it tellTargets an associated "real" movie

> clip (the one with visual content) to play. In this way, the

> timing of the

> user's mouse click determines which movie clip gets triggered to play.

>

> Not simple but it works.

> Marc Hoffman

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