Indicating Flash is done

[glg1]

Hi All,
not sure if this question should be here or in the Flash forum...

so I'll start here.
I've got several flash movies that are controlled nicely with several JS functions. (Play, stop, goto frame #, etc.) However, I would like to indicate to the viewer the progress of the viewed movie - given that they are several minutes long. At the least - I would like to show a sign that the movie was done. One way would be to put a "The End" frame at the end of the movie, but eventually I'd like to have a progress bar, clock or something like that on the page. Hence, polling the progress of the movie will be needed. Any thoughts on where to start - tutorials, ideas, etc.? Nothing pops out of google with my selection of words. (lots of progress bars with onload...)

Thanks so much,
George

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Use Flash to call a JS function on the page every <insert arbitrary timing frequency here>. Flash could pass its timeline details to JS that way.

Hope this helps,
Dan



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[glg1]

Thanks Dan,
I'll need to figure out how to call JS from flash, but I suspect its not too hard.

Cheers,
George

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

One way would be to use Macromedia's Flash Proxy... but there are probably simpler ways. I'd ask in the Flash forum for more help on that one.

Dan



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