[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.

Guess I didn't follow through on that one. Gotta keep my head down 
and be the club head. Be the club head...

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>>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.)
>>
>>jd
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>>John Dowdell, Macromedia Tech Support, San Francisco CA US
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