[thelist] Flash Frame Recognition

Is this whole process possible without making a change within the 
movie. My client wishes to pass a variable to the movie (which by the 
way will be preloaded so size really isn't an issue thus the need to 
use the same move multiple times) instructing it to simply start the 
play head at a given frame. The movie is set up with three tiers and 
each one shows a specific path to a page. Here is the movie again if 
anyone can help me finish this off. Erik was a tremendous help 
yesterday but I never really got it figured out the way he was 
pointing me. Thanks in advance.

>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....
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>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.
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>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.)
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>jd
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