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How To Delay The Start Of External Swf(start From Say 10th Frame)
I am using the following code to load an external swf.Now I need to start the playing of the swf movie not from frame 1 but from say 10th frame.
Please help

Code:
var myMcl:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader();
var myListener:Object = new Object();

myListener.onLoadProgress = function(target_mc:MovieClip, loadedBytes, totalBytes) {
//swfToLoad._visible = false;
loadedPercent = Math.floor((loadedBytes/totalBytes)*100);
_root.bar_mc._xscale = loadedPercent;
//trace(bar_mc._xscale);
c.text = loadedPercent+"%";
//trace(loadAnim.percLoaded.text);
spacer.loadMovie("images/loadingss.jpg");

};

myListener.onLoadComplete = function(targetMC:MovieClip) {

swfToLoad._visible = true;
loadAnim._visible = false;
//swfToLoad._width=367;
//swfToLoad._height=255;
}

myMcl.addListener(myListener);
myMcl.loadClip("Jason_500.swf",swfToLoad);

MC Start Delay
is there any actionscript code that i can put on an movie clip that tells it to wait 0 - 3 seconds before playing?

seconds in real form please (decimals)

Delay Start Of Swf
Hi, I'm building an mp3 player and I have included a fake equalizer. Problem is, the mp3s are streaming and don't start to play for about 5-7 seconds. So the equalizer swf, which loads externally, starts playing before there's any music.

My question is, can I delay the start of the equalizer swf?

Better yet, can I get the music to start playing as soon as they hit play?

Thanks in advance,

spark
_____
I'm a girl!

Delay At The Start Of The Scene...
Hi! I have a problem and I would appreciate any help that I can get on that. If you check out:
http://www.xenwebsolutions.com

After the intro the bars come up with the logo and if you click on it the bars open up and you see the content. Well... most people just see the intro and they think that that is the whole website. The preloader is the 1st scene and the intro is the next scene and the other stuff is in the 3rd scene. So what I want to do is that after the intro scene and at the start of the main scene where those bars appear I want the movie to wait for 3 seconds before it starts playing. I mean if no one clicks on the button which in this case is the logo then the movie should start playing. Anyways right now on the first keyframe of that scene I have an action movieclip and on the first keyframe I put the following action:

delay = 3

On the second keyframe of that action movieclip here is the action:

temp = int(gettimer()/1000);
if (temp == delay) {
tellTarget ("_root") {
play ();
}
gotoAndStop (1);
}

and on the 3rd keyframe the action that I have is:

gotoAndPlay (2);

It almost never works. Sometimes it does and most of the times it wont work. So I was wondering if anyone can help me out so it would work everytime.

Mp3 Player Start Delay
Hi. I use several instances of one mp3 player in a movie.

Generally, everything's working fine but some people have a delay before all the songs can play.

The songs are external mp3 files that stream on demand. Sometimes, when pressing "on" on the player, songs don't play, even after 30 seconds. We have to stop and press play again and then they play.

On other computers, they play instantly.

Example: www.jeffmusic.ca/songs

Any ideas?

Thanks

Delay On Start Of Video?
How can I add a delay on a FLV Playback video? 5sec or so

Trying To Delay The Start Of A SWF Files In Web Page
Hi all,

It's been a while since I've been here. I have a simple swf file that functions as an intro on my homepage. It plays once and works fine. The only thing I'd like is to get the movie to start playing AFTER the page has finished loading. How can I do this? Alternatively, is there a way to delay the start on the movie for say, 10 seconds? BTW, I use Dreamweaver, if that's relavent.

Thanks, Steve

How To Start Playing Many Clips With A Different Delay For Each One?
Hi,
I have, let's say, 50 occurences of the same movieClip (a ball changing color) and I want to play them all with one click BUT not at the same time, so I need to put a different delay on each clip.
I use the following code to catch all my movieClip but then don't know how to play them with delay...

Code:
for (x in atomMain_mc){
var myMcs:Object = atomMain_mc[x];
if (typeof(myMcs) == "movieclip"){
myMcs.play();
}
thanks for helping....

Play/start Mc From Frame After 35 Sec Delay
Hello,

I'm stuck. Searched actionscript.org for a descent answer but couldn't find one.
My problem is I've made an animation using the tweening prototype.

My animation takes 35 seconds and after that a timeline based animation has to start. My prototype animation stops at frame 5 and on frame 6 a timeline animation starts.

How do I build a delay in my movieclip so it does start after 35 sec?
Right now it start right away ...

I need some kind of loop like this one, but this one doesn't work?

PHP Code:

/// time delay
pauseDuration = 35*1000; /// delay duration 35 seconds
if (startTime == null) {
startTime = getTimer();
}
lapsedTime = getTimer()-startTime;
if (lapsedTime>pauseDuration) {
startTime = null;
gotoAndPlay (6);
}

Or is it possible to pause at a frame with the tweening prototype and continue after the last animation has ended?

Delay Before Sounds Start Playback
I tried either from code like this:
public function onRollOver()
{
_root.dbg.text += this.beepSound + "
";
this.beepSound.start(0);
}

or from timeline. I got debugging text and about 0.5-1 sec after the wav file is played back.
I don't have any gap in the sound file. Using CS3.

Looking forward for any ideas.

FMS3: Delay In Start Of Video Stream; Error
Hi,

We're setting up an FMS3-based video streaming system for a new website, and have built a player using AS2 (for compatibility with Flash Player v8) and the FLVPlayback componenent which uses FMS3's new native bandwidth checking to provide us with a figure with which we can work out which of 3 streams to play and how long to buffer before playback. The initial NetConnection connection happens pretty much instantly and we get the numbers we're looking for, but it then takes about another 30 seconds before the FLVPlayback component connects to the server and begins to stream the video. There doesn't seem to be anything in the logic of the player to cause this, and when we test on a local deployment of FMS3 we don't get the problem. Furthermore, we had this player working nicely with FMS2 on the remote server until recently, when we upgraded during our development stage. We think the key must be in the errors we get in the FMS server log:

quote:Mon 09:30:33 AM: Connect : rtmp://OurDomain/OurAppName
Mon 09:30:35 AM: Core (10567) connection to admin accepted.
Mon 09:30:35 AM: Core (10567) sending register cmd to edge. - Player receives BW check numbers here
Mon 09:30:35 AM: (_defaultRoot_, _defaultVHost_) : Application (OurAppName) is not a valid signed application; loading access denied.
Mon 09:30:35 AM: (_defaultRoot_, _defaultVHost_) : Application (OurAppName/A201EB4C-C3F3-4A56-8C42-CA9373F0CA90) is not a valid signed application; loading access denied.
Mon 09:30:35 AM: Connection rejected by server. Reason : [ Server.Reject ] : (_defaultRoot_, _defaultVHost_) : Application (OurAppName/A201EB4C-C3F3-4A56-8C42-CA9373F0CA90) is not a valid signed application; loading access denied.
Mon 09:31:05 AM: Connect : rtmp://OurDomain:1935/OurAppName - Video begins streaming

The GUIDs are the folder names on our server containing the media, and appear here because FMS takes the first part of the path to be the application instance, which has not proved to be a problem before.

I can't find anything about validating or signing applications, but I suspect these errors have something to do with the inexplicable delay before streaming starts. Does anyone know anything about this?

thanks,
Ben

Rewind, Pause, And Start Start Buttons For Base Movie And External Mov

I'm lost...

I have a base movie that contains three buttons (Rewind, Pause, and Start)

The code for the rewind button that sends the base movie to frame 2 which is set to play and then reloads the external movie (images/4_24.swf). works perfectly and is shown below.

on (release) {
gotoAndPlay(2);
}
on (release){
    function test(){
    _root.createEmptyMovieClip("container",25);
    loadMovie("images/4_24.swf", "container");
    container._x=15;
    container._y = 95;
}
test();}

My question is does any one know how to now pause both the base and external movie with the pause button and then start both movies again with the start button????  Some how I need to control both movies with these three buttons.

Code for play button is ---
on (release) {
play();
}

Code for pause button is ---
on (release) {
stop();
}

Thank you MJR

Delay Starting Flash Movie
Hi all
I am new to this forum and flash itself. It would be much appreciated if anybody can help me solve my problem. I've created a web site using flash 8 and put a preloader at the beginning, but for some reason it shows a white box first and then the preloader starts. This is very annoying really. That white box shows on some computers up to 1 minute. Again I would be very glad if any of you guys can help.

Thanks

Making A Flash Movie Delay Before Starting
Thread deleted.

Flash Movie Will Not Start Up
I have managed to solve my previous problem. And have come up with this code

Code:
var imgLoader = new MovieClipLoader();
this.createEmptyMovieClip("image_mc",0);

if((firstLoad == false) & (secondLoad == false) & (thirdLoad == false))
{
_root.myBar._visible = false;
}
else
{
myBar.mode = "manual";
myBar.setProgress(0, 100);
myBar.mode = "polled";
myBar.source = image_mc;
_root.myBar._visible = true;
}

image_mc._x = 20;
image_mc._y = 20;
image_mc._alpha = 0;

if((firstPic == false) & (secondPic == false))
{
imgLoader.loadClip(thirdpicture,image_mc);
}
else if((thirdPic == false) & (firstPic == false))
{
imgLoader.loadClip(secondpicture,image_mc);
}
else
{
imgLoader.loadClip(firstpicture,image_mc);
}

stop();
imgLoader.onLoadComplete = function(targetMC)
{
_root.myBar._visible=false;
onEnterFrame = function()
{
targetMC._alpha +=3;
if(targetMC._alpha >=100)
{
delete onEnterFrame;
gotoAndPlay(3);
}
}

}

Thing is, when embedded to a webpage, my flash movie will get hanged up on this code's frame (frame 2) with the progress bar stuck at 0%. Not unless I either refresh the page, or press a button...It's as if it hangs up on the stop(); there. If I refresh the page then the progressBar loads normally and so does the movie go on playing.
Anyone else encountered this?

http://www.ravenguild.net/HavenSlide.html

is the web site's address where you can see what is happening for yourselves.

Many thanks in advance.

Making A Flash Movie Delay Before Starting For The First Time
Flash noob here. I've currently got a little bit of actionscript in my flash movie which makes it loop a couple times, and then pause, before looping over again, and then pausing again, and wash-rinse-repeat, which is fine.

But now what I also need is to add a small bit of code (preferably on the first frame) which allows me to set a delay time, that the movie will just appear to be paused, but it should ONLY do this the first time. Every other time, the movie should loop like it does normally.

The reason is because I've got about 3 movies on my page, when one stops moving, I want a 2nd one to start, then when that one stops, the 3nd will start, and when the third one stops, the 1irst one will start again, etc. so I have to time it just right.

Can You Start A Flash Movie With A Clip?
is it possible to put like a 5 second clip from a movie into a flash movie here is a example
5 second clip of a nuke exploding then going into flash and making the video continue after that

Delayed Start Of Flash Movie
Hi there

I'm really not at all good at actionscripting so I need a really simple solution to this problem. Basically, I just want my movie to wait about 30 seconds before it starts to play. Could some kind person please enlighten me as to what code I would need to achieve this?

Can I Start Flash Movie At Another Frame?
hi,

i want to start a flash movie at frame 100 instead of 1. calling it from an html document.... please help.
thanks

Auto Start A Flash Movie
Hello Everyone!

Does anyone know how to make a movie created in Flash MX auto start?

I have created a Flash Movie (MX) and saved it on cd. I would like the Flash Movie to start automatically when the user puts the cd in their PC.

Hopefully someone has a solution for me.
Thanks so much!

Using A Log Filr To Start A Flash Movie
hi All,

I am a newbie to flash actionscript. Recently I am required to use actionscript to read data from a log file (.log) to start a flash movie. Eg. if the log filec contain the word "start", then my flash movie will begin.

can someone please help and enlighten me on how to do it?

Thanks

regards
mirage

How Can I Start The Flash Movie At Random Frame
do any 1 have any idea on how ti design an swf file the will be embedded in a web page, so that whenever the page is loaded or reloaded the swf file will start at a rendom frame.

Flash Movie Doesn't Start In Safari For MAC
Hi!

I have a web application that is supposed to start a flash movie. In IE and FireFox it works nice, but in Safari it doesnd load.

Here's the code:
<object id="obj1" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0" width="520" height="500">
<param name="movie" value="softcover-limfrest.swf">
<param NAME=autostart VALUE=true></embed></object>

Does anyone know why it doesnt load in safari? PÃ¥l Nesteby

PDC-Tangen
Norway

How To Control A Flash Movie - Start And Stop Actions?
Hi all,

I need to know how I can control a movie with a stop/play or stop/start button? How to achieve that the movie will stop (it has no sound), and then resume from the position where it was stopped? Thanks

--
Cheers,
elfe.

Can A Html File Tell A Flash Movie To Start (for Example) At Frame 10 ?
can a html file tell a flash movie to start (for example) at frame 10 ???

[MX04]Steps Required To Start A Flash Movie...
Hi!

Im going to start my first flash movie and I was wondering if you guys could teach me the steps required to start one, Im using Flash MX2004. like, do I have to install the pre loader before I start making the movie, how to propely put stop to the movie, you know, all sorts of important stuff that cant be ignored.

I've tried reading some tutorials from the site but it seems they're aimed at people who own Flash5 ect. like, I've still havent learned how to loop music, or stop it, same thing with any kind of looping.

please help!

Creating A RANDOM Start Up Page For My Flash Movie...
I have a movie that contains 5 pages and a menu bar
that jumps from each page.

by default the movie stops at page 1 due to the current

time line

stop( ) ;

command set in the page 1 cell.

how can i change the

stop ( ) ;

so that it stops randomly at either page 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5
(cell 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5)

help truely appreciated...

I Want To Create A Start/Stop Button For A Flash Movie
So I have this flash movie, that someone else made, and I don't have access to a flash program...I have access to Swish2, but I've tried importing the program to swish, but it won't work...is there any way that I would be able to make some kind of code in HTML or Javascript that would link to the movie? Any help would be greatly appreciated...this is kind of a rush rush thing...

oh, and here's the link to the site, I know the start-stop buttons on there now don't work...but it was something I tried of many things...if anyone could help me it would be so great and I would be forever in your debit.

http://www.oldorchardinn.ns.ca/et_home.htm

**Andi

How To Let A Flash Movie Embedded In HTML Start On MouseOver?
I've made a simple FlashMovie and embedded it in HTML within a layer:

<div id="layer">
    <object width="100%" height="48">
    <param name="movie" value="cyclersdef3.swf">
    <embed src="sunmovie.swf" width="200" height="148">
    </object>
</div>

The layer is hidden, only on a certain command (MouseOver) the layer is made visible. I would like to make it so that at that time the clip starts playing and when the layer is hidden again the clip stops playing. Could anyone tell me how this can be done?

When Creating A Flash Site- How Do I Start The Movie By Stopping It At The Home Page?
I am trying to build a flash site. I want to start it so nothing is moving and when you click on a button it goes to a certain frame. I am having a heck of a time. Is there anyone out there with some time and energy that can help me accomplish this.
I am in panic mode....

Thank you to all that respond.

Flash 8 Movie Won't Start In Flash 8 Player?
EDIT: nevermind... I was just retarded... missed something stupid, got it fixed... This can be locked, etc, plz.

Creating A Flash Game, Buttons Pressed = Play Movie Clip, Stuck On How To Start
Hello All, as it's Christmas time, the time of goodwill to all, I thought now would be the best opportunity to post this 'plea for help'. Don't worry I'm not asking you to create it for me I'm just looking for a 'heads up', or for (metaphorically speaking) someone to show me the door so I can walk through it.

Basically I need a wee bit of help on what I actually need, how I need to go about creating it, where I need to put it, and so forth.

Feel free to call me 'stupid' or 'moron' throughout this thread as I have accepted that in doing something like this is completely beyond my capabilities, but hey, if I get a step in the right direction I may just pull it off.

---------------------------------------------------

Right I'm basically trying to create a penalty shoot out game, where the gamer has the best of 20 penalties to score a goal.

What I planned to do goes a little something like this.

Game loads

Screen pops up, saying "blah blah blah welcome, instructions, blah blah blah"

"Please enter your name" (User enters name in a text field, this is stored)
"Please enter your team" (User enters team name in a text field, this is stored)
"Please choose difficulty" (dropdown list of either 1. Easy, 2. Medium, 3. Hard)

User then has to press 9, and the title screen goes away and the game starts.

Scoreboard at the top of the screen, a goal, a ball and a keeper on the game screen.

Scoreboard states how many penalties taken (starts at 0) and how many scored (starts at 0).

The user has the option of pressing 1,2,3,4,5 and 6 (this is where the football will go, e.g. 1 = bottom left, 2 = bottom middle, 6 = top right etc)

The user makes their choice and presses the button.

A random number is generated between 0 and 10. if difficulty is easy then any number between 1 and 9 is a goal, if difficulty is medium then any number between 1 and 7 is a goal, if difficutly is hard then any number between 1 and 5 is a goal.

Lets say the user pressed the number 4

if it is a goal then play movie clip goal4 and add 1 to the penalties taken and add 1 to score.

if it is a miss (e.g random number is 8,9 or 10) then play movie clip miss4 and add 1 to the penalties taken and 0 to the score.

Once the penalties taken = 20, then end the game.

THE END

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Sorry if that's bored you to death, feel free to ignore it and get on with your lives whilst I wake up in a ditch somewhere on xmas day due to not being to create this simple game as I didn't know where to start etc, and spend the rest of my life on the street corners begging for money to feed my drug habit and gambling addiction.

In all seriousness though, have a merry christmas everyone and have an even better christmas if you actually help me out.

Loading A Movie (within A Movie) & Assigning A Random Start Frame
Flash 5

Hello everyone.

After taking almost a year off from web programming Im relearning flash :0

I haven't gone past the basics with Flash 5 and have a couple projects coming up.

The routine I wish Flash 5 to do should be something simple to explain I hope for a vetrin user.

1) Flash Movie A (180 x 60) loads Flash Movie B (60x60) into left most space (say slot 1) and then randomly tells Flash Movie B to start at a particual frame (random(8). Each frame is a simple image with an actionscript Stop; command).

2) Flash Movie A fades in 1st Flash Movie B at slot 1.

3) Flash Movie A loads another Flash Movie B in the middle space (slot 2) and once again randomly tells Flash Movie B to starts at a particual frame (random(8) (just a static picture like in 1).

3) Flash Movie A fades in 2nd Flash Movie B at slot 2.

4) Flash Movie A loads another Flash Movie B into the far right space (slot 3) like the others (tells Movie B which random frame to start at).

5) Flash Movie A fades in 3rd Flash Movie B at slot 3.

My feeble mind is having a problem telling:

1) Where to tell Flash Movie A to position each load of Flash Movie B.

2) How to tell Flash Movie B I wan't it to start at a random frame.

I have the fade in and fade out set

also.... slightly more complex.. Does anyone have experience in doing somethnig similar to this and setting a variable to define which random numbers were selected for each slide so they will not repeat. (i.e. after loading slot 1 it will also define 'slot1' at the same time it creates that random number for slot1 and so on).

TIA
Dan

My Movie Has A Delay
I'm working with scenes and when I'm playing one scene (pictures and music) the timing is fine. When I'm playing the whole movie the timing with the pictures and one sound file is different. What can I do? Thank you for your support!

Delay A Movie
Hi,
can somebody give me a script to delay a movie clip in a scene.
Thanx

A Delay Movie?
Some body know how to set a delay time for playing a movie?

Thanks!

How Add Delay At End Of Movie
Hello,
RB (Raw Beginner) here again. Now that I have a successful movie in place, how do I create a 20 second delay before it plays again? I know there is a better way than creating 400 still frames at 20fps using F5 for every single layer!

Also, unrelated..How do I change my unpalatable ID from "3888ffni879de777" to something more useful? I have looked all through the PROFILE and PERSONAL OPTIONS, but no help.

Thank you!

Delay Movie
I'm trying to use a setInterval to delay my movie ....

It's not waiting the correct duration that is noted. Here's the code:

delay = 6000;
// milliseconds
function playMovie() {
gotoAndPlay(16);
clearInterval(pauseInt);
}
stop();
pauseInt = setInterval(playMovie, delay);

It works fine, but when I change 6000 to something like 12000, it doesn't wait that long.

Another thing to remember is that I have about 6 of these in different frames on the timeline. Is the 'clearInterval' in the right place?

I'm lost....

Delay: Need Escapable Time Delay Actionscript2.0 Function (Flash8Pro)...
Hi,

I am brand new to Flash® 8 Professional. I have many year experiece as a Visual C++ programmer, but am having some troubles learning to code in Actionscript2.0...

I wish to have an Actionscript2.0 function that does the following:
Delay for x milliseconds, but if user clicks mouse in Flash document then delay is immediately over.

Can someone with experience give me some hints on how to code this in Actionscript2.0? I am using Flash® 8 Professional.

Thanks in advance!

P.S. - Working on a Flash® Tetris® game called "TetriCrisis100%™".

JeZ+Lee
Silent Hero Productions®