# CHALLENGE: sm. novelty of a/s

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/challenge-sm-novelty-of-a-s/23188>\
**Category:** random\
**Created:** [June 14, 2003, 5:27am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/challenge-sm-novelty-of-a-s/23188 "2003-06-14T05:27:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Clown\_Staples](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Clown\_Staples](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Clown_Staples)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2003, 5:27am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/challenge-sm-novelty-of-a-s/23188/1 "2003-06-14T05:27:45Z")

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Look at what the right click menu can do.

[http://www27.brinkster.com/clownstaples/rclick02.html](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)

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2003, 5:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/challenge-sm-novelty-of-a-s/23188/2 "2003-06-14T05:54:28Z")

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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…

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2003, 5:58am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/challenge-sm-novelty-of-a-s/23188/3 "2003-06-14T05:58:58Z")

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

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2003, 6:01am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/challenge-sm-novelty-of-a-s/23188/4 "2003-06-14T06:01:23Z")

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arhg…too tired i need rest. maybe tomorrow.