I would like flash to only play once throughout the site?

Question

Conditions:

Its a "banner" that can be static and animated. I only want the animation to play when the user first enters the site, after that it remains static for all the other pages. The flash is in a web template. All pages have the flash movie. Situation is whenever a new page loads, flash is reloaded. Would like to stay away from frames.

Answer 1

Your answer lies within FlashVars.  You will need to set up a variable in the root timeline, something like:

var whereis:Number =0;

if (_root.whereis == 1){

gotoAndPlay(1);

}

else if(_root.whereis ==2){

gotoAndStop(2);

}

This is assuming frame 1 is the start and frame 2 is the end.  You of course can use frame labels as well.  The above code is standard AS2, so if you are using AS3 you will need to alter to remove _root and follow AS3 code rules.  But it is very similar.

Then follow flashvars instructions: http://www.mediacollege.com/adobe/flash/... and pass whereis ==1 or whereis ==2 from the pages on the site to the swf.

Good Luck!

More:

http://blog.circlecube.com/2008/05/22/fl...

http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewCont...

Answer 2

you have to Copy this banner dude, make the first one attached to your index page, and the second one for the other pages but with another name , that's all.

You can't code this flash banner to play only at the first page and stopd!! only if the whole website is in flash...

good luck.

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