Flash ring (rotating) as clipart?

Question

Hi,
this is a combination of questions.
I am doing some tutorial videos. I want to have a rotating ring on the screen to show people where to click.
My understanding is, that you can use *.swf files as cliparts.
My questions:
1) Is there a free download for a simple rotating ring? (e.g. a ring made with a dotted line that rotates, used often as loading gfx in flash)
2) Is there a detailed tutorial how to use these things? I made a test with a free SWF file, and I can't change the lenght of the swf. So if the animation is a lenght of 1 second, I want to display it for 10 seconds, starting over and over again. I did not find anything on that topic in the Elements' help.
Thank you
Smo

Answer 1

Now, one way to "loop" would be to drag multiple instances of the animation onto the Timeline in the appropriate Video Track. This would have the same effect as having an animated Clip that did loop. The trick would be to make sure that the starting point, Frame 1, matched the end point, last Frame. That would need to be done in the animation program.
If one needed interactivity (not sure if this is a goal), then the output would need to be into a format, like Flash/FLV, which could then be packaged in an SWF container for distribution.
Good luck,
Hunt