Re: FLASH: Schedule/time an event

[Steve Rachels]

John,

First cup of coffee in the morning question:

    If you are working in Flash 4, but publishing as a Flash 3, which of the

options would you want to use?  Is the Plug & Play timer backwards

compatible?

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> Hi James,

>

> > I'd like to build into a movie the function of running

> > a certain set of frames/scene/or MC every 15 minutes or so.

> In Flash 4 it is simple use the Plug & Play timer set for 900 second.

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> In Flash 3 2 choices

> 1) FSCommand JavaScript

> http://www.FlashCentral.com/Tech/Scripting/Index.htm

>

> 2) Build a nested movie clip complex. Each MC in the complex should be

> about 100 frames. How many MCs and their exact setup would depend on the

> frame rate and how long you want the delays for. This would not be

> highly accurate.

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