RE: FLASH: rough movie part III.

[Len Harrison]

Hi Alice,


I can't think of any way to do this without using your host scripting

language (i.e. Javascript here, probably). Using script you have two options

within a browser:


1) Open your flash movie in the main frame of a *, 100% frameset with your

script sitting in the * frame. Target your links to open in the main frame

also. This allows you to maintain a persistent global, curFrame say, in the

* frame which you stash your save frame in. When your flash movie loads it

triggers a script to check the value of this global. If that value is

non-zero, the script goes to curFrame. When you reach the link page, you

call a script to set curFrame. It gets a bit more complicated with clips,

but still works, just use arrays and an if frame is loaded loop if your

Flash is really large.


2) Use the same technique but set and read a cookie with an appropriate

persistence (probably session in this case). This is the technique we use to

set bookmarks in lengthy Flash instructional material. The first approach is

probably preferable in your case, however, because the main value of a

cookie is intersession persistence.


hth,


len harrison

instructional designer

lenhabtcorp [dot] com

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> Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 1998 2:48 PM

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> Subject: FLASH: rough movie part III.

>

>

> Hello again,

>

> I totally forgot to ask the main question I had in my last message. If

> you embed a movie in an html document and there are links in the movie

> ... how would I do this: if someone clicks on the link in the

> movie that

> takes them to the destination in the same window and then

> they click the

> back button, I don't want the movie to play all over again (but go to

> the final keyframe)... what do I need to specify in the movie

> for it to

> work?

>

> Thanks.

>

> Alice D.

>

>

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