End of FLV advance? Cue points

Hi there.
Have been playing around with cue points in MX2004pro to get
my swf movie to advance once the FLV that it loaded was at its end.
However, MX2004pro gets really confused if you use the display
component in instances in different scenes to call different videos
with their own cue points. (you can delete them and then they just
always exist when you're on the component again. No reference to
the 2nd and 3rd component's action script for cue points in script
editor etc.) Only got the first one to work and its cue points work
fine, but the others are hopeless. Is there any other way to
advance & play the timeline once a FLV reached its end apart
from cue points?

>>Is there any other way to advance & play the
timeline once a FLV
reached its end apart from cue points?
Yes, you can use the onStatus event of the NetStream object
to know when
play has stopped.
Dave

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6       name   q4in time @s G® zá type   event
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