Re: FLASH: playing sequential movie clips?

[Tommy D'Aquino]

Duh...  nevermind.  Just look at FlashBible a little closer.  Sorry for the

band width waster.


-Tommy


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From: "Tommy D'Aquino" <tommydaqFred [dot] net>

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To: flasherchinwag [dot] com, croteauerols [dot] com

>Subject: FLASH: playing sequential movie clips?

>Date: Mon, Nov 1, 1999, 9:59 AM

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> John (et al.),

>

> I'm developing a screen saver for a client using ScreenTime for Flash from

> MacSourcery.  It's going to be hard drive based so I'm using a pretty hi

> frame rate (30 fps).  The elements that appear on the screen are symbols but

> that's where I'm having my problem.

>

> Currently, I've got it set up so that the elements (currently graphic

> symbols) are just strung out along a very long timeline (being that it's 30

> fps, a 3 minute screensaver will be over 5000 frames long). I'd like to just

> be able to call upon the animated elents as movie clips, one at a time,

> keeping the projectmore manageable and possibly even randomizing it but I

> can't figure out how to.

>

> How do I get the main movie to hold on one frame while a movieclip plays for

> it's duration and then advance to the next frame to play the next movieclip,

> etc.?

>

> I looked at the preloader movie (at FlashBible.com) as I figured that that

> is how it was probably set up, but that has alot more going on than what I'm

> trying to do.

>

> Is there a fairly simple way to set up what I'm trying to do? John, it seems

> as thought this would fall into your MCs instead of Frames situations,

> wouldn't it?

>

> Thanks,

>

> -Tommy

>

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