Get the _totalFrames of an external .swf?

[kingnerk]

Hi, as the title suggests im loading a .swf into a mc using loadmovie, but i need to know when the movie has finished playing. But as the mc on my timeline is only 1 frame it thinks it has reached the end (even though the movie .swf plays till the end)

dropZone is 1 frame but the mc being loaded into it is about 100, but this will be dynamic. Hope that makes sense. Any ideas?

if (dropZone._currentframe == _totalframes){
	gotoAndStop("tester");
}

[a_modified_dog]

dropZone.loadMovie("a.swf"); // load the movie

this.onEnterFrame = function(){ //loop at FPS
if (dropZone._currentframe == dropZone._totalframes){ // note paths here
gotoAndStop("tester");
this.onEnterFrame = null; // end loop
}
};

[kingnerk]

Hi, thanks for that but it doesnt seem to be quite right. It seems to think that the totalframes is 1 as as soon as it plays it skips to the "tester" even though the dropZone is playing a movie.

Here is the code on the frame

stop();
loadMovie("flvs/kitchen1.swf", "dropZone");
this.onEnterFrame = function(){
	if (dropZone._currentframe == dropZone._totalframes){ 
	trace("TESTER HERE");
	this.onEnterFrame = null; 
	}
}

This does the trace as soon as it enters the frame. but if you change the if to

	if (dropZone._currentframe == 50){ 

}

it seems to work. Like its recognising its on the 50th frame, but it doesnt seem to recognice totalframes...

Any ideas?

[a_modified_dog]

hmm .. strange,
try checking only the movieclip._totalframes property -

this.onEnterFrame = function(){
total = dropZone._totalframes;
trace(total); // what is the output ??
};

[kingnerk]

I tried tracing the total frames of the movie and it comes up as 0. I think this is because im asking flash for the total frames of a movie clip it hasnt had time to load. Its just too quick. As if i trace it after a few seconds it gets the correct amount.

Is there a way of pausing mid function? ie:

function forwardFrames(roomNum){
	loadMovie("flvs/"+[roomNum]+".swf", _root.mainContent.kitchenMovs.dropZone);
	//PAUSE HERE FOR A SECOND?
        // do rest of function

[a_modified_dog]

onEnterFrame is invoked at the FPS of the movie
so if the movie is set at 30 FPS, onEnterFrame runs 30 times every second
this method, and setInterval, is the standard way of looping to check the
value of any changing variables.
i tried this in a test file -

this.createEmptyMovieClip("dropZone",1);
dropZone.loadMovie("trailer.swf"); // 496 frames

this.onEnterFrame = function(){
trace(dropZone._totalframes);
}

my output from the trace is -
1
496
496
496
....

[kingnerk]

Hi, thanks for that. i have solved this by using the setTimeout() command which i found out about on live docs (its not in the flash help) does the job as it waits a second to check the number of frames.

http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash...=00001717.html

Thanks for all your help!
Neil