Flash SWF Anim

Help!
I'm new to RoboHelp and to Flash MX 2004, and I'm trying to
get an animation to play once in RoboHelp 6 and stop! Does anybody
have any suggestions?

Hi all
While it would have been nice for K. Niemeyer, Author to
advise of what exactly they did to resolve their issue, I'm
guessing that whatever it was, was done using Flash MX 2004 and had
nothing whatsoever to do with RoboHelp. There is no way I'm aware
of that a Flash animation loop can be controlled from RoboHelp.
Cheers... Rick

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> When I tried to import a Flash CS4 animation into
captivate, i get a
> message
> saying something about "actionscript references root"
and the animation
> might
> not play back correctly. When i publish the captivate
project, the
> animation
> just loops continously. Any ways around this?
>
Try fixing the FLA doesn't reference root. Also make sure the
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Click here to
visit the Captivate Exchange.
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"Smile2JP" <[email protected]> wrote in
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news:gmqtde$fbi$[email protected]..
> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm having a problem to make my Flash SWF working in
Flex. I created an
> animation movieclip, made a button and wrote a script to
play this
> movieclip in
> Flash. Everything works fine but when I use SWFLoader in
Flex to integrate
> this
> SWF in my application. This "play" button is working
anymore in Flex.
>
> Should I remove the button and script in Flash and put
them in Flex? How
> could
> I write the script in Flex to call a function to play
this SWF?
> Is there any other way to solve this problem?
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might find one
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A quick solution for creating simple SWF animation.
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