Flash General - Starting movie symbols in a slideshow

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Starting movie symbols in a slideshow

AndyD

2006-12-06, 6:24 pm

Hi to all

I'm trying out Flash 8 Pro using the trial version.

I've been using Flash for many years to produce animated scientific
presentations. In the past, these have always been produced as
sequences of scenes where i have altered the actions of the custom
control buttons depending on what's happening within the scene and
whether it needs to move to the next one ..etc. I'm now trying to
re-create these using Screens in slideshow in F8. The problem comes
when I load up a slide that has a complex animation written as a movie
symbol. The symbol a placed on the timeline as a single keyframe, and
the 'playHidden' parameter set to 'false' to make the slide open up at
frame 1 .. but of course the animation in the symbol doesn't!! How do I
force the symbol to load frame 1 each time the slide is loaded, short
of stripping the animation out onto the base timeline (size changes
would make this a real pain in the proverbials to do).

ta very much

Andy

2006-12-06, 6:24 pm

Disclaimer - I've never played with the slideshow features in Flash.

If you can attach actionscript to frames, though, this shouldn't be
that tricky; just make sure the animation movieClip is given an
instance name (say for example anim_mc), then on frame 1 of your
slide, put a line:

anim_mc.gotoAndPlay(1);

Now when the slide is loaded it'll ask the animation symbol to start
playing at 1.

Does this help?

AndyD

2006-12-06, 6:24 pm

Brilliant h - ta very much .... works a treat :)

Andy
h wrote:
> Disclaimer - I've never played with the slideshow features in Flash.
>
> If you can attach actionscript to frames, though, this shouldn't be
> that tricky; just make sure the animation movieClip is given an
> instance name (say for example anim_mc), then on frame 1 of your
> slide, put a line:
>
> anim_mc.gotoAndPlay(1);
>
> Now when the slide is loaded it'll ask the animation symbol to start
> playing at 1.
>
> Does this help?