Flash CD - users choose which movie they want to play

programming flash
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I’m creating two very similar movies which will go on a CD. When the user puts the CD into their computer, the first thing I want them to see is a welcome screen explaining what the CD is about (it’s a product demo). Then they will see a screen with 2 options of movies to watch - they click a button to select the one they are interested in.

Then the movie starts and there is no more interaction.

At the end of the movie, I’d like them to return to the choice screen from the beginning so that they can watch the other movie if they’d like to, or see the same one again.

Can anyone help with this? :h:

I’m planning on (probably) publishing these as exes.

Any help much appreciated! I’ve made Flash movies before but never one for a CD.
[color=black][font=Arial][size=3][size=2]Unfortunately[/size] [/size][/font][/color]I don’t have Director which I suspect would be ideal for this project.

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I make CDs all the time with Flash for work.

Only the menu clip needs to be an exe file, once that is running you can “swap out” movies with loadMovieNum

Your original movie will be on layer 0 so if you use:

loadMovieNum(“othermove.swf”, 0);

(replacing othermove.swf with the name of your movie to play) as the action on the button, your users movie choice will replace the menu movie.

Then at the end of each movie available to the user put loadMovieNum(“mainmenu.swf”, 0); on the last frame to reload the menu movie into the layer.

If you want to spend a little cash to dress things up even further I use a program called IceProjector to allow the projector file to run chromeless you can find it here:

http://www.flashants.com/

Hope this helps

3

What if you want that movie to load but in it’s own window leaving the main swf intact behind for offline flash?
I’m trying to achieve pop ups without html and java.

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[color=magenta]Thanks very much![/color]
[color=magenta]Cara[/color]

5

Little off topic but thought this might also be useful for a CD-ROM:

Make a file in a text editor named:

Autorun.inf

In the file put the code:

[AUTORUN]
OPEN = Filename.exe

This will make your .exe start up when you put the CD in.

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I don’t know if anyone had already said this, but i think that this is one way making an .exe:

  1. Open the .swf file.

  2. Click the "file","archive" menu or what it's called, and choose "Create Projector" or what it is.

(I’m Swedish so if anyone want this on swedish send me a message.)

The reason why I don’t know whats it is called is because im swedish the menu is called “Arkiv” and where you create the .exe is called “Skapa Projektor”…

I hope that I atleast helped someone…

/Cobra