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First, please check out my site...this will be easier to
explain once you see it....
http://www.ekorastudios.com/index2.html
Navigate yourself to "Portfolio" and then to "Video"
I can't get any of my flv files to play, and I'm guess it's
because when you click on the thumbnail of a particualr video you
want to watch, it pops up a new window with just a swf file in it
that plays the flv file. I've been told not to do this (I should
use html to embed the swf), but I did it out of necessity.
Here's my wish, please let me know if you can help me figure
out how to do this...
I'd like to make one swf file with a keyframe for each movie
clip to show. I'd like to code the buttons to open up that one swf
file and tell it to go to a specific frame. That way, everything is
in one swf file (not the actual flv files of course, I use the flv
player to call them in) instead of 60 different swf files and 60
different html files.
Please help!!! Thanks,
B

Answer 1

"ekora" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Thank you very much for the response. Two questions:
>
> 1) If the button is in a seperate swf file all together
and it opens up a
> new
> window (where the FLV player & array would be),
would the on (release)
> event
> change? Would it still work if it's not in the same swf
file?
>
From what I can tell from your link, the first swf requests a
new web page
with another swf.
What cannot tell is if you intended the second swf to be the
same for all
flvs or you are having a different swf for each flv?
If different swf for each flv file, then you place the
FLVPlayback component
in each and simply set the contentPath ( you can do this in
the Parameters
panel when you click it on stage).
If the same swf for all flv files, then you need to learn how
to pass
information from one swf to another running in a different
web page window.
Based on you novice level, you are moving into challenging
scripting
territory both in Actionscript and in Javascript along with
dynamic HTML tag
writing.
Perhaps on design it would be wise to use two frames in one
swf and dispense
with the popup html windows.
Frame 1 is the flv selection page and frame 2 is the page
with the
FLVPlayback component.
Frame 1 sets a timeline scoped variable for the flv url
var myFlvUrl:String;
and stops
stop();
Frame 1 has a button for each video
on (release)
myFlvUrl = "TheCowJumpedOverTheMoon.flv"
gotoAndStop(2);
Repeate for each video button on frame 1
On frame two the action is
myFlvPlayBack.contentPath = myFlvUrl;
a FLVPlayback component with the instance name
myFlvPlayBack.contentPath.
A button that returns to flv selection page (frame 1)
on (release)
gotoAndStop(1)
> 2) I checked out the docs about FLV Playback.contentPath
and it looked
> like
> I'm supposed to put the FLV file there - i.e.
> my_FLVPlybk.contentPath =
> "
http://www.helpexamples.com/flash/video/water.flv";
> - Wouldn't this only play water.flv then?
A variable name can also go there or more generically any
String expression.
The variable represents a URL. The variable was assigned
dynamically
elsewhere in the scripting such as via a button. Thus you
only need only one
FLVPlayback component and scripting to dynamically change the
variable's
value.
myFlvPlayBack.contentPath = aVariableName;
>
> Thanks again...
> B
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Lon Hosford
www.lonhosford.com
Flash, Actionscript and Flash Media Server examples:
http://flashexamples.hosfordusa.com
May many happy bits flow your way!