SWF Slideshow

Hi Everyone,
I've created a slideshow where SWFs load externally into the
main file. When one SWF's animation is completed, next SWF gets
loaded.
Problem: If the animation in any particular SWF is created on
Stage (ie. on main timeline) then we can easily know its completion
while knowing its currentframe == totalframes. But in case of SWFs
which have dynamic animation and obviously would have 3 or 4
frames, here the code fails. It loads next SWF before previous one
is finished as we are dependent on seeking totalframes.
Can we check out somehow if the running SWF is actually
completed, no matter the animation is within Movie Clips or created
with the help of programming?
Quick replies would be highly appreciable.
Looking for the response as quickly as possible.
Thanks,
Rohit Arora

Most of my projects are done in just AS. I do a lot of
forward thinking during designing and usually use listeners to
control when stuff fires off etc. Environmentally, I mean that a
slower computer isn't going to process your animation as you'd
expect and it is possible for the code to finish executing way
before the actual animation completes. Try as you may, its hard to
account for these sorts of things.

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