Flash equivalent to refresh pragma (Linux API)

Question

Hi folks,
I'm completely new to flash, just using what can be done with
it on a Linux
machine. Seems to be quite a lot, but of course it's not the
fully featured
API. So please apologize if my question happens to sound
strange to people
being familiar with the original application. :-))
I am already able to play a sound via Flash in the
background. Once, looped
or endless if required. But I would like to play a bunch of
sounds in
randomly randomly order, each one time.
HTML provides the refresh-pragma to reload content after a
defined amount of
time. With a CGI providing the random function, this would
work quick and
dirty. But since the length of a sound/movie differs and the
loading time
is not predictable, this is unlikely to be my choice of final
solution.
Is there a way to define in Flash what to do at the end of a
movie/sound,
e.g. like the mechanism a DVD makes the player load the next
part of a
movie at the end of the actual one? I have read about action
scripts. Could
it be done with this? Any hint appreciated. :-))
Thanks in advance
Tarper

Answer 1

Hello NG,
I found a workaround for this
[email protected] wrote:
> HTML provides the refresh-pragma to reload content after
a defined amount
> of time. With a CGI providing the random function, this
would work quick
> and dirty. But since the length of a sound/movie differs
and the loading
> time is not predictable, this is unlikely to be my
choice of final
> solution.
A given MP3 file offers information about its playlength in
mm:ss.ss via
mpginfo. This can be calculated to seconds to feed the
refresh tag of the
HTML page the Flash sound-movie gets embedded into. So after
conversion
wav->mp3 this information is available. Converting
wav->swf afterwards, all
it needs to do is integrating the total seconds of playlength
into the
filename of the flash file for further parsing.
Greetings
Tarper