How to Play once? ... How to advance frame by frame?

[new2kool]

Hello again, and thanks in advance for help.

Two separate questions:

1) How do you set things so that the movie plays only once, and does not repeat playing?


2) Can Koolmoves make buttons on the movie which would give viewers these two options:

A) the movie can play itself (at the preset speed, of course) OR

B) by clicking a button that says NEXT, the viewer can advance and watch the movie at his/her own pace, frame by frame?

thanks .. new2kool

[Bob Hartzell]

1) How do you set things so that the movie plays only once, and does not repeat playing?

-> File > Export Settings > Html Settings, uncheck loop.

2) Can Koolmoves make buttons on the movie which would give viewers these two options:

-> I need to give this some thought

[new2kool]

Thanks, Bob.
Here is an .swf file that is an example of the feature I need: this one ALMOST works, but not quite.

http://www.zorbapress.com/youthtopia/kool_tests/buttons-001.swf

Right now, my "NEXT FRAME" button moves to the next tween. I would like to move to the next KEY FRAME.

thanks ...

[Bob Hartzell]

You can't use Go to next and Go to previous frame actions if tweens are not 0.

[new2kool]

Why am I trying to do this? ...

Suppose I have an .swf movie in 6 parts:
for example:

1) Dangers of Sunburn
2) Choosing the right hat
3) Sunscreen
4) Times to avoid the sun
5) Sunglasses
6) Summary

Somone watches the movie and then says: I want to see part 3) (Sunscreen) again.

I would like to have some kind of control that would let them begin watching at part 3.
Something like a CD playlist, where you can choose one song out of the list.

Thanks again ... New2Kool

[Fingermonkey]

I thought you wanted to simply play a movie frame by frame, but what you are saying now is different from what I was thinking. If you are designing this for the web, do this:

This is a little more involved than what I am posting here, but here is the general idea. Instead of making one single movie, probably what you want to do is make seven seperate movies (.swf files) - a main movie (Level0) with your playlist on it and use a load movie action (to level0 in order to load the other movies into the Flash Player), stringing all six of the other movies together to play one after the other. Then include buttons and keep the main movie open by using a load movie action for each button to load each of the remaining .swf's (parts 1-6) individually when the viewer clicks on a button.

Load the main movie onto your web page and the others into a directory to be called upon (making sure the urls are correct). By doing it this way, the main movie will load faster, and the rest will be called after.

Look in the KM Help file under Load Movie action.