CHALLENGE: sm. novelty of a/s

Look at what the right click menu can do.

http://www27.brinkster.com/clownstaples/rclick02.html

Try all the play, forward, rewind and back options to see what they do.
This is not normal behavior. See if you can figure out how to make a swf that behaves the same way.

(Bonus: make the Loop option actually do something)

my guess is you keep track of the previous frame as well as the “requested” frame of the movie. when a movie normally plays, the “requested” frame is always prev+1 right? now a simple if statement can test otherwise and call the necessary functions for playing backwards, blah blah blah…

sort of. try it out and see if you can make it work. (I actually had the whole animation inside a separate clip.)

arhg…too tired i need rest. maybe tomorrow.