Desperate for Slide Show Help

This is my first Flash slide show, and I am just lost. I've
posted this on a couple of Flash groups and haven't gotten an
answer at all, and so I'm still clueless. Here it is:
https://michael-von-krenner.com/Slideshow/slideshow.fla
Obviously I am missing a few things to make this happen like
it should, and I can't figure out what I've done wrong. Here are my
issues:
1. Why won't it automatically go from slide to slide? (There
are nine and you can go from one to the other with the arrow keys
just fine.)
2. Why won't it go back to the first slide when it's done,
which is what I specified using the Behavior panel?
3. These aren't that important for this slide show, but why
won't the "Next" and "Previous" buttons stay on the screen?
If anyone can help me, I'd really appreciate it. I did this
in Flash 8.

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Setting slideshows to advance manually
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By sdmacuser at 2007-08-23
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--start copying
on open the_Droppings
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ALL CREDIT TO: http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=46359
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http://macscripter.net/articles/4670_10_0C/

Looking For Slide Show Script - Freeware

Can anyone recommend a freeware script for a simple slide
show that allows slow dissolve transitions? Something that can be
imported into DW and used from inside DW. I have one that's almost
perfect, but does not offer any transitions, just hard edits from
one slide to the other:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=extensionDetail&extid=1165474
Claims they offer transitions but I couldn't find them. Plus
the transitions are for IE only, and I need it to work in all
browers, at the very minimum FFX, Safari as well as IE.

Aside from looking at the pretty transitions, did you read
the rest of the
page? See the part where it says "Step 1 - copy and
paste....."
Then do Step 2. It just can't get any easier than that.
Read the bit underneath step 2 and it tells you how the
script can be used
multiple times on a page - Again - step 1: you give it a new
name in the
javascript file, and add the names and paths of the images
for the
consecutive slides you wish to display. Then, again, Step 2 -
you call the
slideshow somewhere on your page.
Without sounding condescending, sit back, read the
instructions again, and
have a go at implementing them into your page.
Upload your efforts, post a link to the page, and we'll be
able to help you
further if you need it.
You can describe what you have, how you want it to work, but
until we see a
page live, its a bit hard to help further.
Last resort, spring for a paid solution to do it all for you
(which I highly
recommend) -
http://www.projectseven.com/products/galleries/ssm/index.htm
Brendon
"Fugasi" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> Brendon-
>
> >I've used this one many times before with good
success:
>
> I don't know how to use this, its a bunch of code.
>
> 1. Do I C&P this and paste it into my page? Where on
the page?
> 2. I actually want to have four separate slide shows
happening at once on
> the
> same page. Will this code allow me to do that?
> 3. Right now I have four photos in-line horizontally in
non-css table. I
> want
> those four to interchange as a slow dissolve slide show.
How do I specify
> that
> I want the slide show to appear in the table cells?
>
> Thanks
>

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