Autoplaying a website intro slideshow in Flash Catalyst

I was wondering if anyone knew a way, in Flash Catalyst, to create a Website Introduction slideshow as seen in the following websites:
http://www.infinityward.com/
http://www.spinxwebdesign.com/
http://www.whitehouse.gov/
The goal is to create 5 or 6 slides / states that a user can click on, but until they do, for it to AutoPlay all the way through, then circle back around [Loop] to play it again.

Hello,
Creating a slideshow is one of the more common questions in the forums here. Peter wrote up a good answer in this thread.
You can link this up with the video play complete action sequence trick documented in the faq here.
You also have the option of building a fancy slideshow that exports to a swf and importing that swf into Catalyst. If you do that, your swf may need to load external files, and there's a little bit of trickiness documented here.
-Bear

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Aside from the long loading time, does it work on all your fabulous devices, tablets, etc.?
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The program has certainly come a long way since version 1! Thanks so much for including all the lessons right inside the program, it made the learning process super-easy.
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I just had a look at it in Chrome... performance was crap!
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You can choose whether images are embedded in your Flash Catalyst SWF, or loaded dynamically; this can help to keep your SWF's small. Simply right-click an image and chose "Externalize Image".
Answered by: Adam Cath.
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2. In Catalyst, Run/Preview your project (Ctl/Cmd-Enter)
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I'm new to Flash and I need to learn how to do a slideshow with exactly the same features as can be found in this link:
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Just like at the link above, it needs to play through the slides automatically once the page is loaded, each slide needs to link to a specific URL, and I need controls similar to the boxes at the bottom so the viewer can click on any specific slide they wish to view (I'd like to have numbers in the boxes though). The transitions don't have to slide across like this. If a fade is easier, that would be fine.
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I really want to learn how to do this. I expect to go on and create more using Flash, but for now I just REALLY need to figure this slide show out.
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Edit:
i'm sorry. it is a huge work to type this and will be confusing as hell. i'm already up to 1 full word page of explanation. Though i am able to do it, explaning it in full lengh is ... well.. very hard. Way harder than it is to make your flash itself.
I can however point you to some element you should read about how to make them:
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- how to create a button in flash cs4
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- How to import thing in library.
keep in mind that what you want to make is mostly a Logic probleme...
- Image 1 click = GetURL X,
- After Y time, Switch image 1 to image 2 with animation. Do the same for the button.
- If you click on button 1 while being on image 3, you have to set all the reverse animation in the timeline, and use a lot of Gotoandplay.
Hope this help you a little.
I'm sorry. i really wanted to help you do it, but it is just a monstruous job to write all this.

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Could you add a link to your site here at all ? That would help with some workarounds maybe.
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My name ist Peter and I tried Flash Catalyst the last two days.
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
    
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But I don't see anything where it calls to my bathinline.flv file. Yet this one plays just fine. I've played both .html files, and only the run-local html file plays fine on my computer (not viewing from website this time). So I agree with you that I think it's a pathing issue on the deploy to web thing, but I have no idea what. The code isn't showing any difference.
Any more ideas. You've been really, really helpful so far!

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