Looping a flash movie

Question

I have been unable to find the correct property to test on a
flash video to see if it is running or not.
for an avi, i check the movierate, if it is not equal to 1,
the video has stopped playing.
for a wmv, i get its duration and loop for that length of
time.
is there a similar property or technique for a flash video?
here is the code for the behavior on the avi member that i am
referring to:
property s
on beginSprite me
s = sprite(me.spriteNum)
end
on exitFrame me
if s.movieRate = 1 then go to the frame
end

Answer 1

Working with Flash in Director is somewhat undocumented.
There is a full dictionary and contextual listing of Lingo in both
the Script window and the Message window. The Message window is
very handy for testing code before you commit to a behavior. In
MX2004 when working with Flash 8, you can usually reach any Flash
function, method or property by using Actionscript after the
reference to the Flash sprite in Lingo. For instance you can find
the current frame of a Flash .swf by using:
sprite(X)._currentFrame
If you need to reach a movieClip in the .swf then just
include the clip's instance name in the path:
sprite(X).clipName._currentFrame
for example.
Take a look at the read me that comes with the Director 10.1
update for some other insights.