tracking scenes in a flash movie

[greibo1]

Is there any way to track what scenes in a flash movie have been accessed by a
viewer? Example, If I have a movie with 4 sections is there any way to tell
which sections have actually been accessed by various viewers and with what
frequency?

[David Stiller]

greibo1,

> Is there any way to track what scenes in a flash movie have been
> accessed by a viewer?

The thing about Scenes is this: once the SWF is compiled, Scenes, as
you know them, go away. The timelines of each Scene become one single
timeline in the SWF. This basically means Scenes are an organizational tool
during authoring, and they're good for that, but problematic when it comes
ActionScript. (It has been documented that gotoAndPlay() can fail when
Scenes are included as a parameter. Frame labels are recommended instead.)

> Example, If I have a movie with 4 sections is there any way to tell
> which sections have actually been accessed by various viewers and
> with what frequency?

You can do this, for sure, but you'll have to code for it yourself. In
other words, when you have a button that sends someone to a given Scene --
and remember, you should put a frame label at the beginning of each Scene
and reference that instead -- you'll have to make that button additionally
invoke a function that records where you sent the user. You can use
variables for this; say, an object or array that contains "scenes" sent to
and the the frequency with which they were used.



David
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