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Help! Playing random scene - frame action??? Sheila K Hughes
3/15/2005 10:16:09 PM
flash actionscript: I'm not too familiar with Action Scripts yet, so feel free to reply as though
you're talking to a first grader. Ha, ha!

Here's what I'm trying to accomplish:
I have created a flash movie for my company.
The flash movie contains testimonials from customers.
Each testimonial has its own scene.
The movie requires no interaction - there are no buttons - it just plays, so I
need a frame action to accomplish what I want to accomplish.
There are 7 or 8 scenes in the movie right now. There will be nearly 100 by
the time I'm done.
What I'm trying to accomplish is to get these scenes to play randomly rather
than sequentially (as they do now).
I want people that visit our company's website to see a different testimonial
each time they visit rather than the same 4 or five over and over again since
people won't stick around on the homepage for long?
If you need a better idea of what I'm doing, here's the url:
http://www.frog.com/newhome.html

Thanks so much for your help.
-Sheila
Re: Help! Playing random scene - frame action??? kglad
3/16/2005 1:31:35 AM
a better idea would be to make each testimonial a separate swf and load them
into your main swf. the reason that's better is because your file size is
going to grow as you add testimonials. if these include graphics and/or sound,
your main file size could be very large and very slow to load.

however, if you're only using text for your testimonials, your file may not be
that large even with 100. in that case, i would think you would not use
different scenes but different keyframes for each testimonial.

in any case, you'll probably want to use the shared object and frame labels if
you use different scenes or frames.
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