Flash movie in Director

[Hunble webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

Hi All, I am new to this user group.

I am facing a problem in Director MX. I have imported a Flash Movie ( SWF ) in Director. What I require is when the Flash Movie is done playing the control jumps to the next frame...

My flash movie has 600 frames and in the last frame. I have added a label END.... I am trying to use the FINDLABEL() command of director by means of which I can check if my movie has reached the LAST FRAME / Label so I can jump to the other Marker in the director Movie.

Can you please please tell me how to code it..... how to create a simple IF statement which checks the last LABEL and if found & Reached... it should jump to the next marker in director.

Thanks in advance...

HUMBLE

[Michael Hamstra]

You could do something like:

on exitFrame me
if sprite(3).playing=0 then
go to next -- goes to the next marker
else
go to the frame
end if
end

This will keep the playback head on that frame until the Flash finishes (the
above assumes the flash is in sprite #3)

Michael Hamstra


"Hunble" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:blu7r6$t1$1@forums.macromedia.com...

> Hi All, I am new to this user group.
>
> I am facing a problem in Director MX. I have imported a Flash Movie (

SWF ) in Director. What I require is when the Flash Movie is done playing
the control jumps to the next frame...

>
> My flash movie has 600 frames and in the last frame. I have added a label

END.... I am trying to use the FINDLABEL() command of director by means of
which I can check if my movie has reached the LAST FRAME / Label so I can
jump to the other Marker in the director Movie.

>
> Can you please please tell me how to code it..... how to create a simple

IF statement which checks the last LABEL and if found & Reached... it should
jump to the next marker in director.

>
> Thanks in advance...
>
> HUMBLE
>
>

[Rob Dillon]

You don't need to use the frame label, since your Flash movie is
linear, you can just use the duration of the movie to trigger the
event.

Something like this attached to the Flash sprite will work:

--------
property thisSprite
property thisDuration

on beginSprite me
thisSprite = me.spriteNum
thisDuration = sprite(thiSprite).member.frameCount
end

on exitFrame me
go to the frame
if sprite(thisSprite).frame >= thisDuration then go to the frame + 1
end
--------

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[JKLea webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

You could also use:

on exitFrame me
if sprite(x).frame < member("x").frameCount then go to the frame
else go to the frame +1 -- or use a marker of some sort
end


JKLea

[Rob Dillon]

In article <blu9le$4d7$1@forums.macromedia.com>, Michael Hamstra
<hamstra@bellsouth.net> wrote:

> You could do something like:
>
> on exitFrame me
> if sprite(3).playing=0 then
> go to next -- goes to the next marker
> else
> go to the frame
> end if
> end
>

On slower computers this method can fail, the first test for that
sprite's playing property can return 0 as it hasn't started playing
yet. The same problem exists when checking a digital video file.

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Rob
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[Rob Dillon]

In article <blukc6$qo4$1@forums.macromedia.com>, <
[email]webforumsuser@macromedia.com[/email]> wrote:

> You could also use:
>
> on exitFrame me
> if sprite(x).frame < member("x").frameCount then go to the frame
> else go to the frame +1 -- or use a marker of some sort
> end
>
>

This method causes Director to have to test for the frameCount value at
every frame loop. Since it never changes, it's better to get the value
once and then store it in a property variable.

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Rob
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[JKLea webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

I think that's called "memory management," right?

I always forget about that. :/

Thanks Rob.


JKLea

[Hunble webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

Thanks to everybody who have taken out time to respond to my query, I am really obliged.

ROB thanks a bundle, your solution really works. I also agree with you upon that slow machine problem with sprite(3)= 0 code. Also it will skips to next marker if I have paused my flash movie through lingo.

Now I am submitting another problem :)

I want to know how can I control flash movie audio / sounds through director. E.g.,

I have this flash movie which has a background voice over / narration playin in it. I have made a volume slider but I don't know how to control the sound in flash movie through this slider in director.....

Can you help me with this. Thanks in advance again.

Regards
Humble

[Rob Dillon]

See your other message on this subject...

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