RE: FLASH: playing two movies in series

[Mike Hondel]

mike-


- is it possible to tell target the loaded ocil2 movie within ocil1?  That

would get the movie playing when I want it.


yes. in the last frame of "ocil1" (assuming "ocil2" is loaded into level 2, and has a frame label "start" in the second frame): 


Begin Tell Target ("_level2")

      Go to and Play ("Start")

End Tell Target


good luck,

-mike


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mike hondel

blue room media

http://www.blueroom.net

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Sent:	Wednesday, January 12, 2000 10:36 AM

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Subject:	FLASH: playing two movies in series


Hello all,


Here's the situation:


1. Flash movie "ocil1" contains an intro image of a spinning menu system.

2. Flash movie "ocil2" contains the menu system in it's finished form

complete with mouseovers, calls to seperate movie clips etc.


The goal:


- Have ocil1 transition smoothly into ocil2  (ocil2 is 200k, ocil1 is only

40k)

- ocil2 will end up being called as a seperate menu page so people don't

have to suffer through the intro movie every time they go to the "home"

page.


Problem:

- I can't figure out how to set this up.  I could add the elements of ocil2

at the end of ocil1 but this means a lot more editing for future revisions.

- I tried to "Load movie" ocil2 while ocil1 was playing but that resulted in

overlapping images.

- then I tried making the first frame of ocil2 to be a "stop" action (to

prevent the image overlap until I was ready) but couldn't figure out how to

make it start playing.


Ideas:

- is it possible to tell target the loaded ocil2 movie within ocil1?  That

would get the movie playing when I want it.


Any other thoughts or suggestions would be most welcome!  It seems there

must be a simple way to do this but my book doesn't explain it!


Thanks much,

Mike





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