Autostart Issue-flv Player

Autostart Mp3 Player
Hi, I have a flash mp3 player that only starts if I hit the play button. Is there a way to make it automatically start playing as soon as the movie loads?

Here is all the actionscript.




PHP Code:



stop();
playlist = new XML();
playlist.ignoreWhite = true;
playlist.onLoad = function(success) {
    if (success) {
        _global.songname = [];
        _global.songband = [];
        _global.songfile = [];
        for (var i = 0; i<playlist.firstChild.childNodes.length; i++) {
            _global.songname[i] = playlist.firstChild.childNodes[i].attributes.name;
            _global.songband[i] = playlist.firstChild.childNodes[i].attributes.band;
            _global.songfile[i] = playlist.firstChild.childNodes[i].attributes.file;
            // trace(songname[i]+"  "+songfile[i]+" "+songband[i]);
        }
    }
    _root.createEmptyMovieClip("sound_mc", 1);
    _global.song_nr = random(songfile.length);
    
};
function timer(sound_obj) {
    time = sound_obj.position/1000;
    min = Math.floor(time/60);
    min = (min<10) ? "0"+min : min;
    sec = Math.floor(time%60);
    sec = (sec<10) ? "0"+sec : sec;
    timeDisplay_txt.text = min+":"+sec;
}
MovieClip.prototype.songStarter = function(file, name, band) {
    if (this.sound_obj) {
        this.sound_obj.stop();
        delete this.sound_obj;
    }
    this.sound_obj = new Sound(this);
    this.sound_obj.loadSound(file, true);
    this.onEnterFrame = function() {
        if (this.sound_obj.position>0) {
            delete this.onEnterFrame;
            this._parent.display_txt.text = name+" / "+band;
            timeInterval = setInterval(timer, 1000, this.sound_obj);
        } else {
            this._parent.display_txt.text = "loading...";
        }
    };
    this.sound_obj.onSoundComplete = function() {
        clearInterval(timeInterval);
        this._parent.timeDisplay_txt.text = "00:00";
        (song_nr == songfile.length-1) ? _global.song_nr=0 : _global.song_nr++;
        _root.sound_mc.songStarter(songfile[song_nr], songname[song_nr], songband[song_nr]);
    };
    this._parent.volume1.dragger.onPress = function() {
        startDrag(this, true, 0, this._y, this._parent.volBG._width, this._y);
        this.onEnterFrame = function() {
            var p = (this._x/this._parent.volBG._width)*100;
            this._parent._parent.sound_mc.sound_obj.setVolume(p);
        };
    };
    this._parent.volume1.dragger.onRelease = function() {
        delete this.onEnterFrame;
        stopDrag();
    };
    this._parent.volume1.dragger.onReleaseOutside = function() {
        stopDrag();
    };
};
btn_play.onRelease = function() {
    clearInterval(timeInterval);
    this._parent.timeDisplay_txt.text = "00:00";
    this._parent.sound_mc.songStarter(songfile[song_nr], songname[song_nr], songband[song_nr]);
};
btn_stop.onRelease = function() {
    clearInterval(timeInterval);
    this._parent.timeDisplay_txt.text = "00:00";
    this._parent.sound_mc.sound_obj.stop();
};
btn_fw.onRelease = function() {
    clearInterval(timeInterval);
    this._parent.timeDisplay_txt.text = "00:00";
    (song_nr == songfile.length-1) ? _global.song_nr=0 : _global.song_nr++;
    _root.sound_mc.songStarter(songfile[song_nr], songname[song_nr], songband[song_nr]);
};
btn_rev.onRelease = function() {
    clearInterval(timeInterval);
    this._parent.timeDisplay_txt.text = "00:00";
    (song_nr == 0) ? _global.song_nr=songfile.length-1 : _global.song_nr--;
    _root.sound_mc.songStarter(songfile[song_nr], songname[song_nr], songband[song_nr]);
};
playlist.load("playlist.xml"); 




Thanks for any solutions.

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[CS3] Media Player Component No Autostart
Okay,

I'm going insane here - I have checked the option on the component (on the stage) to not autostart - yet it autostarts the download anyways (it is set to false in the HTML as well). Driving me crazy here. Anyways, what I want is like an embedded You Tube movie, it places an icon over the start image and once the user clicks it then it starts the stream.

If I need to use Actionscript please inform me of where to place it (on the button, on the frame, etc), also of what form of AS to use. Thanks for the help.

--
Greg

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Mac Textinput Issue + New Player Fullscreen Issue
Please inform me if I am a total idiot,... but it appears that holding down backspace while in a TextInput on a mac will only delete one character rather than deleting chars as long as the button is held down. I have tried making the simplest project consisting of only a base sprite and a textinput, and it fails (i thought i may have been preventing the event from bubbling or something.) I tested the movie on PC and holding down backspace works fine. Is this a known issue? and so I just have to extend textInput?...

Also, it seems like when coming back from fullscreen in a swf embedded on a page causes some flickering of the swf content upon resizing the browser window, 3 people I know have also encountered this problem.

Thanks for any help,

Chris Laan

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Autostart CD ROM
HI,
I wonder if anyone can help me. I've created a flash movie which I want to burn onto a cd rom. I've saved the projector file and everything, but I want it to start automatically when you insert the cd, is there a FS command or some actionscript to do this? It's for use on a mac and I am using a mac.
Thanks in advance for any help.

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Autostart CD In OSX?
hi all

is there a way you can make a CD autostart a projector in OSX ????????

i can do it for OS9 in toast and PC with autorun.inf but not OSX, any help would be great

Cheers

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Autostart
okay this should be easy.... i am creating a flash movie and publishing it as a projector for a mac platform... how to initial an autostart so the program automatically starts when placed in the cd rom drive....


thank you in advance

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Autostart Cd-rom
I need to autostart a CD with a mac projecter file and a PC exe file on it.
I would like the relevent file to automaticly open when you insert it into the drive.
Can anyone tell me how to go about doing this?

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Autostart Cd Help
how can i make a pc cd that autostarts using flash mx?
i need it to automatically starts the flash movie, and the movie will have a password script in it.
thanks sooo much for your help.
aleloop

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Autostart
When someone puts a cd (my movie) into their cd drive, does anyone know how to make it autostart?

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XML Autostart
Howdy I was wondering if anybody in this forums could help me auto start my videos and lead in right into the next video i've pasted the code and attached the "sample"........

Thanks Chuck

var playlistXML:XML = new XML();
playlistXML.ignoreWhite = true;
var currentVideo:String;
var currentFLV:String;
playlistXML.onLoad = function() {
var tempArray = new Array();
for (var i = 0; i<this.firstChild.childNodes.length; ++i) {
tempArray[i] = new Object();
tempArray[i].label = this.firstChild.childNodes[i].attributes.vdate+newline+this.firstChild.childNod es[i].firstChild.nodeValue;
tempArray[i].data = this.firstChild.childNodes[i].attributes.flv_url;
}
playlist_lb.dataProvider = tempArray;
};
playlistXML.load("video_list.xml");
playBut._visible = false;
pauseBut._visible = true;
playlist_lbListener = {};
var playlist_lbListener:Object = new Object();
playlist_lbListener.change = function() {
currentVideo = playlist_lb.selectedItem.label;
currentFLV = playlist_lb.selectedItem.data;
playBut._visible = false;
pauseBut._visible = true;
nc = new NetConnection();
nc.connect(null);
ns = new NetStream(nc);
ns.setBufferTime(0);
ns.onStatus = function(object) {
// rewind and pause on stop
};
// Attach the NetStream video feed to the Video object
the_video.attachVideo(ns);
// Set the buffer time
ns.setBufferTime(5);
// Begin playing the FLV file
ns.play(currentFLV);


// build sound object
this.createEmptyMovieClip("snd", 0);
snd.attachAudio(ns);
audio = new Sound(snd);

};

playlist_lb.addEventListener("change", playlist_lbListener);

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CD Rom Autostart
I'm thinking about making a CD Rom with Flash and I was wondering about how to make the autostart on the CD. Is it difficult? Probably not. Can anybody tell me how?
Tx

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Autostart Help
Hello all. I've been trying to learn more about sound and flash lately and have an existing mp3 player that I need help with.

I've built my own simple mp3 player so far, but this one is a bit more complicated and I'm stuck on one thing...

What needs to be added/changed so that this player will not autostart?

I have tried changing this.sound_obj.loadSound(file,true) to this.sound_obj.loadSound(file,false) but it still autostarts.

I'm still a newbie when it comes to Flash and I've tried searching on this topic for something that will answer my questions for this particular player, but no luck.

So, any help is greatly appreciated. Source code is below.

Thanks,

Opusmx

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stop();
playlist = new XML();
playlist.ignoreWhite=true;
playlist.onLoad = function (success) {
if(success) {

_global.songname = [];
_global.songband = [];
_global.songfile = [];
for (var i=0; i<playlist.firstChild.childNodes.length; i++) {

_global.songname[i] = playlist.firstChild.childNodes[i].attributes.name;
_global.songband[i] = playlist.firstChild.childNodes[i].attributes.band;
_global.songfile[i] = playlist.firstChild.childNodes[i].attributes.file;
//trace(songname[i]+" "+songfile[i]+" "+songband[i]);
}
}
_root.createEmptyMovieClip("sound_mc",1);
_global.song_nr = random(songfile.length);
_root.sound_mc.songStarter(songfile[song_nr],songname[song_nr],songband[song_nr]);
}


function timer(sound_obj) {
time=sound_obj.position/1000;
min=Math.floor(time/60);
min=(min<10)?"0"+min:min;
sec=Math.floor(time%60);
sec=(sec<10)?"0"+sec:sec;
timeDisplay_txt.text=min+":"+sec;
}
MovieClip.prototype.songStarter = function (file, name, band) {
if (this.sound_obj){
this.sound_obj.stop();
delete this.sound_obj;
}
this.sound_obj = new Sound(this)
this.sound_obj.loadSound(file,true)
this.onEnterFrame = function () {
if(this.sound_obj.position>0) {
delete this.onEnterFrame;
this._parent.display_txt.text=name+" - "+band;
timeInterval = setInterval(timer, 1000, this.sound_obj);
} else {
this._parent.display_txt.text="loading..."
}
}
this.sound_obj.onSoundComplete = function () {
clearInterval(timeInterval);
this._parent.timeDisplay_txt.text="00:00";
(song_nr==songfile.length-1)? _global.song_nr=0 : _global.song_nr++;
_root.sound_mc.songStarter(songfile[song_nr],songname[song_nr],songband[song_nr]);
}
this._parent.volume1.dragger.onPress = function() {
startDrag(this, true, 0, this._y, this._parent.volBG._width, this._y);
this.onEnterFrame = function() {
var p = (this._x/this._parent.volBG._width)*100;
this._parent._parent.sound_mc.sound_obj.setVolume( p);
};
}
this._parent.volume1.dragger.onRelease = function() {
delete this.onEnterFrame;
stopDrag();
};
this._parent.volume1.dragger.onReleaseOutside = function() {
stopDrag();
};

}

btn_play.onRelease = function () {
clearInterval(timeInterval);
this._parent.timeDisplay_txt.text="00:00";
this._parent.sound_mc.songStarter(songfile[song_nr],songname[song_nr],songband[song_nr]);
}
btn_stop.onRelease = function() {
clearInterval(timeInterval);
this._parent.timeDisplay_txt.text="00:00";
this._parent.sound_mc.sound_obj.stop();
}
btn_fw.onRelease = function () {
clearInterval(timeInterval);
this._parent.timeDisplay_txt.text="00:00";
(song_nr==songfile.length-1)? _global.song_nr=0 : _global.song_nr++;
_root.sound_mc.songStarter(songfile[song_nr],songname[song_nr],songband[song_nr]);
}
btn_rev.onRelease = function () {
clearInterval(timeInterval);
this._parent.timeDisplay_txt.text="00:00";
(song_nr==0)? _global.song_nr=songfile.length-1 : _global.song_nr--;
_root.sound_mc.songStarter(songfile[song_nr],songname[song_nr],songband[song_nr])
}

playlist.load("jukebox.xml");

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Anyway To Autostart From CD?
Well you know, I am making a interactive cd rom & I am looking for a way for it to start when someone inserts the cd, on mac & pc. I guess I need 1 exe file & something for mac?? If you guys have any idea or know of any software that does this please let me know. Thanks & happy holidays (love the theme)

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Help With Autostart
I am a total n00bie with this so I apologize in advance for my ignorance.
I have this animation that refuses to start rotating unless I click on the animation and then hit the spacebar...

What can I do in order to get this stuff going?

Since i'm a new user the forum wont allow me to post the URL... PM if you have any ideas PLZ.

woodallcreative.com/proofs/strong/index.php

P

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AUTOSTART IN MACINTOSH
AUTOSTART IN MACINTOSH

This has been put into the Newbies and Mac forum.

I read how to autostart a pc flash file.

How do I autostart a macintosh flash file?!

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Autostart With Certain Program
hi there,

is it possible to create an autostart with a certain
program on a cd?
if so, how does it work?

as usual every help appreciated

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Mac Autostart With Application
hi there,

my problem is to create an autorun for a cd-rom which
starts a html file with a browser.
autorun itself is working fine, unless u use os X. I think
they just skipped it, so it will work only on os 9 or earlier.
well, if i e.g. create a html file with dreamweaver, autrun will
open the html file NOT in a browser BUT in dreamweaver.
the windows autorun for the same thing works fine, if u use stuff
like runfile.exe in addition.
so does any1 have a clue, how to solve this or if there's a similar
utility for mac??

as usual every help appreciated

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Autostart File For CD
How can I create a file that autostarts a flash movie called start.exe on a CD when the CD is inserted into the computer?

Thanks,
Jason

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Loadmovie Must NOT Autostart. How To Do This?
Hello :-)

Maybe one of u knows the answer to this problem.
I have a swf, lets name it swf1. In swf1 a movieclip is playing. During the playing of swf1(the user is watching the movie) I load a second swf (lets name it swf2) with the ‘loadmovie’ action. I only want to do this because on the next page of my website swf2 is needed. So by ‘preloading’ it, it’s already in the browsers cache and the user doesn’t have to wait for swf2 to download when he surfs on. Now the problem. Swf2 is a movie clip with video and sound. When swf1 is playing and swf2 is fully loaded, swf2 begins playing to. I know this is the normal behaviour of AS and the loadmovie command. The result is that swf1 and swf2 are playing over each other. That’s not what I want.

1. Is it possible to give a loadmovie command the option NOT to start playing when it is loaded? When yes, how to do this?

2. If 1 is not possible, can i mute the sound of a loaded movie?

3. If 1 and 2 are not possible, are there other ways to ‘preload’ swf’s in the background (without playing them) for later use on the website?

Thanks in advance for the help.

Greetings, Luut.

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Autostart For Macs (please Help)
creating a cd for co., and I was wondering if there is a code which would auostart a mac projecor file when the cd is put in the computer.

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[F8] As 2.0 Video Autostart
Hello,

I have embedded a video in flash, and I do not want it to automatically start playing when the swf file loads. I want the rest of the movie to play though. Is there a way to do this ?

best,

Aaron

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Want To Get FLV NOT To Autostart And NOT Loop
I clipped this code from a tutorial at gotoandlearn and am trying to figure out how to have the FLV NOT automatically start playing and once it completes, NOT loop but go back to first frame. Please help or offer suggestions. Thanks.


PHP Code:



var nc:NetConnection = new NetConnection();
nc.connect(null);

var ns:NetStream = new NetStream(nc);

theVideo.attachVideo(ns);

ns.setBufferTime(10);

ns.onStatus = function(info) {
    trace(info.code);
    if(info.code == "NetStream.Buffer.Full") {
        bufferClip._visible = false;
    }
    if(info.code == "NetStream.Buffer.Empty") {
        bufferClip._visible = true;
    }
    if(info.code == "NetStream.Play.Stop") {
        ns.seek(0);
    }
}

ns.play("flv/#.flv");

playButt.onRelease = function() {
    ns.play();
    playPaus.play(1);
}

playButt.onRelease = function() {
    ns.pause();
    playPaus.play();
}

stopButt.onRelease = function() {
    ns.seek(0);
    ns.pause(true);
}

var videoInterval = setInterval(videoStatus,100);
var amountLoaded:Number;
var duration:Number;

ns["onMetaData"] = function(obj) {
    duration = obj.duration;
}

function videoStatus() {
    amountLoaded = ns.bytesLoaded / ns.bytesTotal;
    loader.loadbar._width = amountLoaded * 238.6;
    loader.scrub._x = ns.time / duration * 238.6;
}

var scrubInterval;

loader.scrub.onPress = function() {
    clearInterval(videoInterval);
    scrubInterval = setInterval(scrubit,10);
    this.startDrag(false,0,this._y,238,this._y);
}

loader.scrub.onRelease = loader.scrub.onReleaseOutside = function() {
    clearInterval(scrubInterval);
    videoInterval = setInterval(videoStatus,100);
    this.stopDrag();
}

function scrubit() {
    ns.seek(Math.floor((loader.scrub._x/238)*duration));
} 

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Disable Autostart
This is probably one of those things that is so simple and staring me in the face that I just don't see it however,

How do you disable the autostart on a flash clip? We are placing a flash clip on a website and want to have the flash clip default autostart setting set to disabled so that users who are not interested in the clip are not forced to listen to it against their will, while users who are interested can simply select the play button.

(Using Macromedia Flash Professional 8)

Thanks.





























Edited: 05/15/2007 at 07:36:49 AM by bytbb

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Can't Turn Off Autostart
I'm using MX 2004 Pro.

I've created an .flv file from a QuickTime movie, audio only.

When I created the .fla and .swf, I UNCHECKED "Automatically Play" in the Media Playback Window of the Component Inspector - but the audio ALWAYS starts playing when the page loads, even though the controller says, "Paused."

I've tried all of these parameters in the code on the HTML page, to no avail:

<param name="play" value="false" />
<param name="autoplay" value="false" />
<param name="autostart" value="false" />


What's going on here, and how do I fix it?

Thanks,

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How Do I Edit This To Not Autostart?
Code:

/***********************************************************************************
***********************************basic setup**************************************
***********************************************************************************/


//setup sound object
var s:Sound = new Sound();
s.onSoundComplete = playSong;
s.setVolume(75);

//array of songs
var sa:Array = new Array();

//currently playing song
var cps:Number = -1;

//position of music at pausing
var pos:Number;

//position of the volume loadBar
var nlp:Number = 75;
volume.loadBar.gotoAndStop(nlp);

//pausePlay state
var songPlaying:Boolean = false;


//load the songs xml
var xml:XML = new XML();
xml.ignoreWhite = true;
xml.onLoad = function() {
   var nodes:Array = this.firstChild.childNodes;
   for(var i=0;i<nodes.length;i++) {
      sa.push(new Song(nodes[i].attributes.url,nodes[i].attributes.track,nodes[i].attributes.artist,nodes[i].attributes.link)); //keep an eye on this bit here
   }
   playSong();
   songPlaying = true;
}

xml.load("xml/songs.xml");



//play the mp3 file
function playSong():Void {
   s = new Sound(sHolder); //wipes out the current sound object and creates a new one   
   s.onSoundComplete = playSong; //this function is recursive, but needs to be adapted to implement shuffle mode
   s.setVolume(75);
   //mute.gotoAndStop("on");
   
   
   if(cps == sa.length-1) { //if the song array is at the end, set it back to the beginning
      cps = 0;             //this section will be the best to adapt for shuffle mode
      s.loadSound(sa[cps].url, true);
   }
   else {
      s.loadSound(sa[++cps].url, true);
   }

   trackInfo.text = sa[cps].artist + sa[cps].track;
   playPause.gotoAndStop("pause");
   textPos = 0;
   //numSongs.cpSong.text = cps+1;
   //numSongs.saLength.text = sa.length;
}


/***********************************************************************************
****************************transport controls**************************************
***********************************************************************************/

//button functionality*******************************************

playPause.onRollOver = function():Void
{
   if(this._currentframe == 1)
   {
      this.gotoAndPlay("pauseOver");
   }
   else if(this._currentframe == 10)
   {
      this.gotoAndPlay("playOver");
   }
}

playPause.onRollOut = function():Void
{
   if(this._currentframe != 1 && this._currentframe < 10)
   {
      this.gotoAndStop("pause");
   }
   else if(this._currentframe >= 11)
   {
      this.gotoAndStop("play");
   }
}

playPause.onRelease = function()
{
   if(songPlaying == true)
   {
      this.gotoAndStop("play");
      this._parent.pauseIt();
      songPlaying = false;
   }
   else
   {
      this.gotoAndStop("pause");
      this._parent.unPauseIt();
      songPlaying = true;
   }
}


nextSong.onRollOver = over;
nextSong.onRollOut = out;
nextSong.onRelease = function() {
   this._parent.playSong();
   songPlaying = true;
   playPause.gotoAndStop("pause");
}


prevSong.onRollOver = over;
prevSong.onRollOut = out;
prevSong.onRelease = function() { //this is the function that takes the songlist from the 1st song to the last
   if(cps == 0) {
      cps = sa.length - 2;
   } else {
      cps -= 2;
   }
   this._parent.playSong();
   songPlaying = true;
   playPause.gotoAndStop("pause");
}

// Mute Button
mute.onRollOver = function()
{
   if(this._currentframe == 1) this.gotoAndStop("onOver");
   else this.gotoAndStop("offOver");
}

mute.onRollOut = mute.onReleaseOutside = function()
{
   if(this._currentframe == 10) this.gotoAndStop("on");
   else this.gotoAndStop("off");
}

mute.onRelease = function()
{
   if(this._currentframe == 10)
   {
      this.gotoAndStop("offOver");
      s.setVolume(0);
   }
   else
   {
      this.gotoAndStop("onOver");
      s.setVolume(75);
   }
}



//button functions*************************************************

function over():Void
{
   this.gotoAndPlay("over");
}
function out():Void
{
   this.gotoAndPlay("out");
}


function pauseIt():Void
{
   pos = s.position;
   s.stop();
   songPlaying = false;
}

function unPauseIt():Void
{
   s.start(pos/1000);
   songPlaying = true;
}



/***********************************************************************************
*********************volume slider**************************************************
***********************************************************************************/

volume.scrub.left = 0;
volume.scrub.right = 100;
volume.scrub.top = volume.scrub._y;
volume.scrub.bottom = volume.scrub._y;

volume.scrub.onRollOver = function() {
   this.gotoAndPlay("rollOver");
}
volume.scrub.onRollOut = function() {
   this.gotoAndPlay("rollOut");
}

volume.scrub.onPress = volume.scrub.onReleaseOutside = function() {
   this.startDrag(false, volume.scrub.left, volume.scrub.top, volume.scrub.right, volume.scrub.bottom);
   this.isDragging = true;
}
volume.scrub.onMouseMove = function() {
   if (this.isDragging) {
      s.setVolume(this._x);
      currentVolume = this._x;
      nlp = this._x;
      volume.loadBar.gotoAndStop(nlp);
   }
}
volume.scrub.onRelease = volume.scrub.onReleaseOutside = function() {
   this.stopDrag();
   this.isDragging = false;
   s.setVolume(this._x);
   nlp = this._x;
   volume.loadBar.gotoAndStop(nlp);
   currentVolume = this._x;
}



/***********************************************************************************
*********************track info**************************************************
***********************************************************************************/

var size:Number = 45; //how many character slots are displayed
var textPos:Number = 0;
var intervalId:Number = setInterval(scroller,1000);

function scroller():Void
{
   var t:String = (sa[cps].artist + " - " + sa[cps].track);
   if(textPos + size < t.length)
   {
      textPos++;
      trackInfo.text = (sa[cps].artist + " - " + sa[cps].track).substring(textPos, textPos+size);
   }else
   {
      clearInterval(intervalId);
      intervalId = setInterval(scroller2,1000);
   }
}

function scroller2():Void
{
   var t:String = (sa[cps].artist + " - " + sa[cps].track);
   if(textPos > 0)
   {
      textPos--;
      trackInfo.text = (sa[cps].artist + " - " + sa[cps].track).substring(textPos, size);
   }
   else
   {
      clearInterval(intervalID);
      intervalID = setInterval(scroller, 1000);
   }
}
   
   
   
   
   
infoButton.onRollOver = over;
infoButton.onRollOut = out;

infoButton.onRelease = function():Void
{
   this.gotoAndStop("up");
   getURL(sa[cps].link,"_blank");
}

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Looking For The Code To Create A Mac AutoStart?
I have a hqx file that I am trying to create a AutoStart program for. I know how to create the AutoRun for PC, just a little hung up on the Mac version any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

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Autostart On Flash Movies?
I have made a flash movie and it works fine when i test it as I'm making it, but when I upload it to the server and view it on the webpage, the movie doesn't start automatically, I have to right click it then hit play. Is there something that I did wrong when I made the movie. Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance

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I Want The CD With Flash Content To AUTOSTART. How Do I Do That?
I want the CD with Flash content to AUTOSTART when you load the cd in the cd-rom. How do i do that?
can i do that?

thanks in advance!!
//
Marcus Tinnerholm
Virtual Visions Scandinavia

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Flash Buttons Don't Autostart
Sorry if the question doesn't make a lot of sense. I'm really really new to Flash.

I'm using IE 6 and 7 (2 different pc's) to test on.

If I view a swf file that has animation it starts as soon as the page loads however, if I load a swf with a button on it (like one with a hover effect) I can not get it to start unless I click on the control first and then hover over it.

When I hover over the button the tooltip says, "Click to activate and use this control"

So I have to click on the control and then it works, but animations do not require this action. They start up as soon as the page loads.

Is there a setting or something in IE or in flash itself that I should have enabled to allow the buttons or menu to autostart as soon as the page loads?

Thanks, and again sorry if this doesn't make sense.
-Dave

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Autostart Flash Exe File From Win 98 When I Switch On PC
Please all the flash guru help me how to autorun flash exe from win 98 whenever I switch on the computer.

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Script To Make Projector Autostart On Mac?
I was wondering if there was a script that would make a projector auto start from a mac platform. As in, the user inserts the CD into their computer, and the flash movie automatically launches and plays. (not in a browser window, just through the projector)

I've had no trouble finding the script for a PC, just haven't had the same luck for the mac.

Thanks.
-nic-

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Query - Audio Track Autostart
Hi there,
A quick question, I am using an audio track for a website.
A movie clip sits on the main timeline and is linked a .wav file.
The movie clip contains a button in frame 1 that uses the following code to start the audio playing:
on (release) {
s.start(0,100);
gotoAndPlay (1);
}

Frame 1 actions has the following code:
s = new Sound(this);
s.attachSound("mySound");
s.setVolume(100);

It works perfectly, but takes a user clicking the button to start the track.
I want it to auststart. Using an OnClipEvent to start the audio makes a huge mess! Any ideas?

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Slideshow Autostart, Button And Music
I am about as new to Flash MX 2004 as you can get and need some help. I don't know much about code. Here is what I am trying to do: I created a slideshow using the template provided with Flash MX 2004 Profesisonal and placing it inside a web page. I would like to:

1. Have the slideshow start automatically
2. Have music play automatically
3. Eliminate the big start button that comes with the slideshow

Can someone help me? As Sargent Shultz said, "I know nothing, nothing!"

Thanks,

Big Mike

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Query - Audio Track Autostart
Hi there,
A quick question, I am using an audio track for a website.
A movie clip sits on the main timeline and is linked a .wav file.
The movie clip contains a button in frame 1 that uses the following code to start the audio playing:
on (release) {
s.start(0,100);
gotoAndPlay (1);
}

Frame 1 actions has the following code:
s = new Sound(this);
s.attachSound("mySound");
s.setVolume(100);

It works perfectly, but takes a user clicking the button to start the track.
I want it to auststart. Using an OnClipEvent to start the audio makes a huge mess! Any ideas?

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Music Loop Autostart Problem
Hi.
I created a player in Flash MX that loops an external MP3. However, this looping only starts playing automatically in Flash Mx test environment. When I put the SWF in the browser the music loop does not start automatically; I have to press my play button to get it started. Here's the actions frame.

myMusic = new Sound();
myMusic.loadSound("sample.mp3");
myMusic.start(0, 0);
myMusic.onSoundComplete = function() {
myMusic.start(.1, 0);
};

Any help is much appreciated.
Ivan

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Scrolling Image Autostart? Code Included...Please Help
I am trying to make an image scroll from top to bottom. As ur mouse goes over it, you can scroll it back up or down. It stops at the top and bottom. But I can't get it to have a default scrolling speed and direction for when there is no mouse on it. Here is the code I have on the movie clip! Thanks!

onClipEvent (load)
{
ycenter=150;
speed=1/30;
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame)
{
var distance=_root._ymouse-ycenter;
_y+=(distance*speed);
if (_y > 800) _y=800;
if (_y < -535) _y=-535;
}



The if statements stop it at the top and bottom. I still need those to work after we get it to start scrolling. I need it to act as if the mouse is already at the top of the .swf file. Thank you!

-L

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Player Issue
Hi, I have posted this in a few forums now. I hope someone here might be able to help me.

I have a movie developed in flash 4 (I was asked to develop it in this format) when I publish it and run the swf it all fine .... until I update my player to the flash 6 player. Now when I run the swf the text isn't appearing ot some of the graphics

Any ideas of how to fix my flash 4 movie to work in this player.

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Mp3 Player Issue
Hey I got this problem with an mp3 player I am working on.

I have an mp3player that loads the value of the variabel "songinput"
from a text file when my swf loads, it is a small file that just preloads that file that is indicated by the "songinput" variabel.
I now have a guy that wants to use this on his current asp driven site. He wants it so when you click a button in his asp page that variabel should be sent to a script and then open the flashmp3player
in a new html window, the mp3player should then load the variabels from the script that the asp button sent the variabels to.

Can this be done or is there a better way??

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MP3 Player Issue
Info: Created mp3 player to provide users ability to sample (listen to) sndFX files. Player is simple with only a "play" and "stop" botton.
Issue: When an mp3 is allowed to complete on it's own without the user exicuting the "Stop" action, the "Play" action does not exicute.

To rectify this I thought All I needed to do was exicute a function that would reset the playhead of player to the start position upon the completion of the mp3: such as -
code:
// Reset Playhead if MP3 completes
MP3Player.onSoundComplete = function(){
MP3Player.stop(); // stop current playback
MP3Player.start(0); // reset playhead position to 0
MP3Player.stop(); // prevent imediate playback
onEnterFrame = null; // stop tracking playstate
}

This isn't functioning at all.

Below is the script for the player which functions perfectly otherwise. You can see that I commented out my solution above and used the function I created for the stop button. This solution is not ideal as it only works once; i.e. if mp3 is allow to complete it will restart the mp3 if the "play" button is pressed; however, upon completion of the second complete playback it does not function.
code:
/************************************
MP3 PLAYER
************************************/

prevUrl = null; //store current url in global variable
isPlaying = false; // store playstate in global variable

// create sound object, assign events
function createSoundObject(){
MP3Player = new Sound(this); // define sound object
MP3Player.onSoundComplete = updateStatus; // change state at song end
return;
}
createSoundObject(); // create initial sound object

// load and/or play sound
function playSnd(url){
// check playstate
if(isPlaying){
return; // deactivate button during play/load
} else {
isPlaying = true;
}

// check if same or new sound
if(prevUrl != url){ // new sound
MP3Player.loadSound(url,true); // sound automtically plays afer loading
prevUrl = url;
} else if(MP3Player.position > (MP3Player.duration - 100)){ // same sound
MP3Player.start(0); // replay from beginning
} else { // same sound
MP3Player.start(MP3Player.position/1000); // start sound at last paused
}
onEnterFrame = showPlayState; // start tracking playstate
}

// stop both playback and download
function stopSnd(){
MP3Player.stop(); // stop playback
delete MP3Player; // stop download
createSoundObject(); // create a new sound object
isPlaying = false;
prevUrl = ""; // clear for next load
onEnterFrame = null; // stop tracking playstate
}

// Reset Playhead if MP3 completes
MP3Player.onSoundComplete = function(){
MP3Player.stop(); // stop current playback
delete MP3Player;
createSoundObject(); // create a new sound object
isPlaying = false;
prevUrl = ""; // clear for next load
//MP3Player.start(0); // reset position to 0
//MP3Player.stop(); // prevent imediate playback
//onEnterFrame = null; // stop tracking playstate
}

// assign variable to imported url
mp3URL = url;

// assign button events
playBtn.onRelease = function () {playSnd(mp3URL);true}
stopBtn.onRelease = stopSnd;

/*******************************
END MP3 PLAYER CODE
*******************************/

stop(); // prevent timeline looping

Any assistance would be appriciated.

Thanks!

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Player 7 Vs 8 AS2.0 Issue
Can anyone tell me why this script works in Player 7, but gives the error message in 8?

on (release) {
if (user add pass eq "xxxxx" add "xxxxx") {
gotoAndPlay("Scene 5", 3);
} else if (user add pass ne "xxxxx" add "xxxxx!") {
gotoAndPlay("tryagain", 1);
}
}

Here is the error message:
**Error** Scene=animated opening, layer=Layer 3, frame=6:Line 2: ')' expected
if (user add pass eq "xxxxx" add "xxxxx") {

**Error** Scene=animated opening, layer=Layer 3, frame=6:Line 3: Statement must appear within on handler
gotoAndPlay("Scene 5", 3);

**Error** Scene=animated opening, layer=Layer 3, frame=6:Line 4: Unexpected '}' encountered
} else if (user add pass ne "xxxxx" add "xxxxx") {


Thanks!

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Mp3 Player Issue
Hi,
I have an mp3 player that calls a playlist from an xml file. The first line in the code is


Code:
_root.playlist == undefined ? playlist = "mp3player.xml" : playlist=_root.playlist;
If I want to have a button change the playlist, how would I do it? I hope this makes sense as I am a novice at these players. Any help appreciated.
thanks,
skee

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Mp3 Player Issue.
Hello, I made an mp3 player in flash a while back but I've been having some issues with it. This issue actually existed ever since I first made it but I'm just now asking....

Issue:

Whenever my mp3 player is playing, and I open another instance of my mp3 player in another window, the sound for the first instance of the player stops. Basically the song pauses. This also occurs if I have another window open with the myspace default flash player (you know the one with the silverish rectangle) and then I open an instance of my player in another window, the sound of the myspace player stops.

So obviously there is an issue with my coding since this doesn't happen when I open different instances of the myspace flash player, does anyone have any Idea what the problem could be?

thank you for any help.

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Player 6<>7 Issue
In mx2004 I coded an interactive movement with a simulated z-axis. Basically positioning and scaling, nothing special really. When published for player6(r65) it works fine but for player 7 it doesn't work at all. It has to be player 7 cause I need css.

So, can you please tell me what should I look at? Are there common issues and differences in AS for player 6/7?

Thank you!

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Mp3 Player Issue
Hi.
I have a mp3 player on a site.
When i made the website i made it on my own server and there it worked fine, but when uploaded to the server it was to be hostet on, it played the mp3 at a much higer velocity.

Anyone know what could cause this?

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FLV Player Issue
On my time line I have 5 frames for 5 different pages on the site. Frame 1 I have an empty mc and a flv player that call this code and everything works fine:

PHP Code:



//empty clip
var mc_empty:MovieClip = new MovieClip();
addChild(mc_empty);

//remove instance of the flv player on the stage and put it in the empty mc
var myPlayer:FLVPlayback = flv_player;
removeChild(myPlayer);
mc_empty.addChild(myPlayer);

btn_alchemist.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, buttonClick);
btn_alchemist.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, populateAlchemist);

function populateAlchemist (evt:MouseEvent):void {
    
    textLoader.text_txt.text = "Title";
    textLoader.subText_txt.text = "Content"
    textLoader.link_txt.text = "Extra Content";
}
//function of flv player
function buttonClick(evt:MouseEvent):void{
    if(evt.target==btn_alchemist)
        myPlayer.source = "alchemist.flv"; 




Now when I try to put code on another frame I get the textLoader to work fine but I can not clear out and populate my flv player anymore. When I add this code in I keep getting output errors.
PHP Code:



//empty clip
var mc_empty:MovieClip = new MovieClip();
addChild(mc_empty);

//remove instance of the flv player on the stage and put it in the empty mc
var myPlayer:FLVPlayback = flv_player;
removeChild(myPlayer);
mc_empty.addChild(myPlayer);
// add event to project buttons
btn_4XPress.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, buttonClick);
btn_4XPress.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, populate4XPress);

function populate4XPress (evt:MouseEvent):void {
    
    textLoader4.text_txt.text = "Title";
    textLoader4.subText_txt.text = "Content"
    textLoader4.link_txt.text = "Extra Content";
}

//function of flv player
function buttonClickXpress(evt:MouseEvent):void{
      if(evt.target==btn_4XPress)
        myPlayer.source = "4XPress.flv";} 




It says there is the conflict exists with definition mc_empty and myPlayer. How can I get around this? Thanks.

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Mp3 Player Issue Please Help
Hi guys.

Im using this streaming mp3 player, and it works fine, but the problem is that plays one track at a time, it plays the track and then you have to go bacl to teh player and click the next song to play , So I want the tracks plays continuosly, just click play, and the tracks start to play one after another.

Could you please help me with this probelm..

Thnx.

this is the .fla

mp3 player

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MP3 Player Issue
Hi!
I have a simple flash mp3 player, controlled by an external xml file.
It works almost fine, but if a song is finished, the next one just won't start. I gotta press a button to start it:(
Could anyone please take look at the fla, maybe you could figure it out.
Thank you

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Player Version Issue
Hello
I am using flash MX 2004, but my client want the site to use the flash player ver 6 (and not 7).
I notise that i can publish the swf as 'Flash Player 6', but do i need to restrict my self in some way when i build the Movie? is all the Action script the same???

Many thanks
Adi

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Standalone Player Issue
Hi,

okay, say I made a standalone exe.

Say theres a button in there that has a getURL command to download a pic off my server when I press it.

Say I want to download the pic INTO an empty movieclip which is also in my standalone exe.

Why cant I do that?

When I click on the button, it opens a browser window with the pic i want. But I want the pic to be fed into the empty movieclip in my exe, not in a seperate browser.

What would the script be to download it into my exe?

I tried

on(release){
getURL("http://www.mysite.com/my.jpg", holder1);
}

and

on(release){
_root.holder1.getURL("http://www.mysite.com/my.jpg");
}

but this doesnt work at all...strange


could someone please let me know why not?

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