[thelist] Flash Frame Recognition

At 9:50 AM 6/19/0, J. Ross Dishner wrote:
> ...is there a way to start the Flash movie on a specific frame.
> ...The movie is incredibly large....

If you can pass a variable in through the HTML then your Macromedia Flash 4
movie can act upon that information. Or you could use JavaScript to control
the Macromedia Flash 4 Player with any SWF file, in browsers which support
this ability.

But remember that a SWF file streams in. If it's very big, then that means
they'll have to download the entire thing before seeing the latter
sections. If you'd prefer nonlinear access to this great mass of content,
then it's simpler to make smaller SWFs, or a usual webby size, and to
switch among them as desired.

(Technotes contain info on variable-passing, JavaScript control, fast-start
SWFs.)

jd




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