Couple of Flash questions

[D4VE]

Hi all,

Quite new to Flash so these are probably easy dumb questions

First one:

How do I make a movie just play once in Firefox - Ive tried <param name="loop" value="false" /> but that only does IE, Firefox ignores that.

Second one:

Is it possible to make it so that the "frame" style border and "click to activate control" don't appear in IE when you mouse over the movie?

Thanks in advance

 

[ballen]

Hi all,
How do I make a movie just play once in Firefox - Ive tried <param name="loop" value="false" /> but that only does IE, Firefox ignores that.

I think FF looks at the embed so you'd need to use:

<embed src="myswf.swf" width=xxx height=xxx bgcolor="#xxxxxx" quality="high" loop="false"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspace="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />

Is it possible to make it so that the "frame" style border and "click to activate control" don't appear in IE when you mouse over the movie?

Annoying isn't it. It is possible via the use of javascript, see http://www.mix-fx.com/flash-prompt.htm

 

[nav...]

1) convert the final frame of the animation to a keyframe and add "stop();" in the actions pane.

2) google swfobject. best thing ever. after jquery, sex and apple macs.

 

[D4VE]

Thanks guys. nav, that's exactly what I did in the end.
Ballen, nice Javascript, simple and worked well!