[Cp6] Execute action on a specific frame (kind of "onAppear" trigger)

Hello,
I would like an script to be executed without any user interaction on a particular frame (just to set a variable with that particular frame number).
Ideally, I would put the script on an object that appears at this frame and it would be executed when the object appears.
I've go buttons appearing on the final frames of this slide and I need to return back to this particular frame after the buttons have sent me elsewhere.
I know I could set the value on a script for each button. I know I could maybe compute the frame number but the "I'm here and this is my frame number" solution is so straightformward !
Any idea how to achieve this ?
Thanks in advance !
PJ

The only way I know to trigger an action that way is with the time based actions widget, created by Jim Leichliter: http://captivatedev.com/2012/09/26/adobe-captivate-6-0-free-widget-time-based-actions/
Beware: only compatible with SWF output.
Lilybiri

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code on the last frame of your movieclip instance:
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Is it possible to load an external swf at a specific frame?

Hey! I've got a flash file which acts as the main menu for a
program I'm developing. Everything works fine from the main menu
however when you click to return to the main menu the whole main
menu file reloads. Is it possible to use loadMovieNum( ) to go to a
specific frame within the main swf file? If not, is there a way to
do this?
Here's the button code I'm using now:
on (release) {
unloadMovieNum(0); //unloads the current movie so we can
reload the main menu
loadMovieNum("DemoMainMenu.swf", 0); //reloads the main menu
Thank you for whatever help you can provide! :)

mcommini wrote:
> Hey! I've got a flash file which acts as the main menu
for a program I'm
> developing. Everything works fine from the main menu
however when you click to
> return to the main menu the whole main menu file
reloads. Is it possible to
> use loadMovieNum( ) to go to a specific frame within the
main swf file? If
> not, is there a way to do this?
First let me clarify one thing with you. Level zero is the
main level on the flash
player. By loading things in level zero you will remove
current content and replace
it with the new one. This is not a good idea because it works
like purge, clears the
player and from there on you can't maintain any functionality
unless you reload the
whole html document over again. Also, do not unload and load
in the same time in the
same level. Flash can hold single SWF per level, once you
load content, whatever previously
loaded will be automatically replaced, so just the loadMovie
action and you all set.
Good practice is to have the main level (zero) an empty base
and than load and unload
things in above levels, 1 and so on...
> Here's the button code I'm using now:
> on (release) {
> unloadMovieNum(0); //unloads the current movie so we can
reload the main menu
> loadMovieNum("DemoMainMenu.swf", 0); //reloads the main
menu
> }
>
In regard to the load and go to. Yes it is possible but no
matter what frame you want to
go to,you need to load the whole movie first. I will come
back to that in a second.
While you execute the loadMovie action, you can set up a
variable, for example:
loadMovieNum("file.swf", 1);
Variable="mcommini_01";
Than in the loaded movie you have preloader which makes sure
that the movie is loaded before
playing and once done loading, make it jump to frame which
has IF ELSE condition in some kind
of loop, using setInterval or Enterframe. That condition
checks for the variable value and based
on it proceed to particular frame.
That's why I told you not to clear level zero, if you set
variable and load movie in that level
in the same time, all the information will be gone and you
have totally no reference point to
get the variable from.
You could as well use shared object which is native form of
Flash's cookies. Write SOL file into
user drive temp folder, than read it from the other file and
go to frame based on the given value.
Best Regards
Urami
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IE11 can't post form data to specific frame or window dialog opened via window.open()

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Form POST targeting to specific frame or dialog popped up via window.open() no longer works in IE11.
It worked fine in IE10 and all previous versions of IE.
Please see screenshot attached with simple test that reproduces this problem.
Direct Link to screenshot:
http://173.231.98.44/cgi/TestFolder/IE_11_widow_frame_targeting_BUG.jpg
Direct link to simple test page demonstrating this problem:
http://173.231.98.44/cgi/TestFolder/page2.asp
Note: IE11 doesn't report any errors, doesn't complain about anything, even when debugged via F12 developer tools. The only thing it complained initially was missing doc type declaration on top of page, but even after adding doc type definition, problem still
persists, makes no difference.
I tested this on fresh install of Windows 2012R2 while testing our web application with the new IE11.
I believe doing this on Windows 8.1 with IE11 will result in same bug/problem.
Our web application uses a technique whereby it launches a popup window via call to window.open(), passing blank URL and specifying a name for the new window. It then does a from post targeting the name of new dialog.
In IE11 this functionality has been broken and no longer works.
Problem is that IE11, instead of posting form to the newly created dialog, it launches a new instance of IE and then loads the requested form in this new instance of IE, while the dialog launched via window.open() remains on screen and is empty. If user repeats
launching same form post request (via button click for example), IE 11 keeps creating new empty dialogs and new IE instance for every form post executed. This totally breaks our application because we use many so called "wizards" that encapsulate
specific functionality in separate web page launched in a popup window.
Another related problem is that if a dialog is launched with window.open(), the java script code in the dialog can not target the parent frame that opened the dialog anymore. In our application, when a dialog is closed, it typically needs to trigger a refresh
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the default action of <input type="button" is submit. Note also that the default type of <button> elements is 'submit' also.
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the outcomes of all scripted windows are affected by
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which in turn is affected by your IE Security zone settings (for popup blocking handling)
and the settings of any third-party popup blocker you may have installed and enabled... it may not necessarily be visible on your browser toolbar.
The first step in troubleshooting web browser issues is to test in no-addons mode.
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Use File>Properties to find out what IE Security zone it maps to... there is a security setting to prevent navigation into zones of lower integrity.
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I've duplicated an FLA with exactly the assets you have in
the same places, with the code on the main timeline. And mine
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proposed above works, but it is not the only way (See #2 below).
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Still I have no answer for my question No1, BUT I could find my answer to the 2nd question and here it is for your kind notice:
Special thanks to Daniel Dura
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/screen_orientation_apis.html
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Using Style and Create Frame I know but some specific frame How to create any one have Idea Please Share.
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I am still learning Action Script but I have a problem with
writing the full script for combing navigate to new URL and
gotoAndPlay. More specifically what I want to do is use a button
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to navigate to a new URL and used the gotoAndPlay ( ) ; command to
play a certain frame, both have been successful but when I combine
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in a new window with the movie playing from the beginning. The
correct sequence within the correct Webpage is playing but only if
I close the current page, in other words what I am trying to
achieve is running but in the background.
I have attached some of the code I have tried if that helps.
Many Thanks.

How extensive are the corresponding text changes on the HTML
page? How many HTML pages are there? The reason I am asking is that
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1. user clicks a button on a column
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3. the movie starts to play a different section
4. the text on the web page changes to match the new movie
sequence.
There is a problem here - No 4 requires browser reloading. I
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sequence after the click occurs. Perhaps a better experience can
be:
click --> load appropriate page --> perform animation
sequence.
As for the variables that you add to the request,
conceptually it is not different from appending url variables to
the url string:
You can do it this way:
var url:String =
"www.domain.com/mypage.html?myVariable1=something&myVariable2=somethingElse";
Or you can do it this way:
ar url:String = "www.domain.com/mypage.html";
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variables.myVariable2 = "somethingElse";
var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest(url);
request.data = variables;
I hope you see the similarity. The result is the same - Flash
sends request with the variables.
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important is that Flash automatically makes variables values url
formatted which is critical when you send strings with special
characters. In addition, when you send many variables - it is much
more manageable than keeping track of the variable and making
assignments in one-line url string.
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(say No 50). You may want to:
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variables.startframe = 50;
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location string.
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I guess a question is "How good are you at HTML and
JavaScript?"

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As may be self evident I am not an expert..... Is it possible
for a button (or series of buttons) on one page which, when
clicked, opens another html page with an embedded swf movie and
then goes to a specific frame in that movie ???
If that makes sense

no - simply put, if the html page/SWF and frame isn't loaded
when button is pressed - there isn't a
way because it doesn't exist yet.
Chris Georgenes / mudbubble.com / keyframer.com / Adobe
Community Expert
LindnArden wrote:
> As may be self evident I am not an expert..... Is it
possible for a button (or
> series of buttons) on one page which, when clicked,
opens another html page
> with an embedded swf movie and then goes to a specific
frame in that movie ???
>
> If that makes sense
>

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I need to create and execute Actions programmatically. Is this possible?
Can anyone provide me the documentation for this?
Thanks.

I don't think either of these actions is supported. You can run the individual steps offered by action processors using the AVCommand interface, but the packaging up of AVCommands into batch processes or actions is a non-automatable UI task.

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browser window via a navigation bar button, it always open on its
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http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/deep_linking.html

Linking to a specific frame from JSP page

I am trying to link to site that has frames. I want to load a specific jsp in frame 3. Does anyone know how to pass the target and source values? I have been looking for tutorials unsuccessfully.

You can not point to a specific frame ina document from an external document.Your best bet might be to pass the parameters using URL and on the recieving end write some javascript to parse the url adn if it has a parameter then process that else just load standard document.
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Linking to a specific frame from html?

Hello all:
Does anyone know if it is possible to have an html page that
links to a swf file, but ALSO goes to a specific frame or label
within that file? I'm trying to avoid having to start the Flash
file from the very beginning, but I can't say that I've ever seen
this done.
Thanks,
Wayne

The simplest way:
in the HTML you expand the two occurences of "movie.swf" (in
the object and embed tag) to "movie.swf?jump=50", where "jump" is
the variable name and "50" is the frame somewhere in the middle of
your movie.swf that you want to start with.
In the first frame of movie.swf you have actionscript
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else {
this.gotoAndPlay(jump)}
Of course, this doesn't check for error conditions and has
other weaknesses, but I hope you get the point.
Good luck
Wolf

[Cp6] Execute action on a specific frame (kind of "onAppear" trigger)

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