flash (macromedia): I have created a click-thru screens slide presentation in Flash MX Pro. Each
slide contains a MediaController component associated with a MediaDisplay
component that streams its own external FLV. The presenter uses buttons to
navigate from slide to slide.

Now I need to create a self running version of this presentation that would
advance from slide to slide, on its own, when each external FLV stream has
finished (yet still maintain the navigational nature of the click-thru
version). Not sure how to do this where external FLVs are concerned. Any
suggestions will be appreciated.

In general, it is better to have a single shared MediaDisplay (or MediaPlayback) component
that you place on the root presentation slide, rather than having separate Media
components on each slide. The reason for this is that the MediaDisplay components will
by default continue playing even on the hidden slides and you may run into limitations
with the number of concurrent controllers.

So, I'd suggest putting a single shared media component on the root presentation slide.
Add an on(revealChild) handler to the root presentation slide that does something like this:

on(revealChild) {
myMedia.contentPath = eventObj.target.myMediaPath
// eventObj.target is the screen being revealed.
myMedia.play()
}


Then on each slide, set something like:
on(load) {
this.myMediaPath = "media1.flv"; // different for each slide
}

To make it self running, add the following handler to the mediaPlayback itself:

on(complete) {
_root.presentation.currentSlide.gotoNextSlide(); // advance to next slide
}

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Ed Skwarecki
Principal Architect
eLearning