I’ve got one that seems simple but I can’t figure it out.
I need to rapidly build a slideshow of sorts and instead of doing it with XML, etc. I’m just putting these few images into clips within my main movie. Once the clips are complete I want to put them in the proper order on the timeline and have them play one after the other in order. Problem is they won’t. What happens instead is the the last clip (from left to right on the timeline) loops over and over again since it doesn’t have a stop in it somewhere. Even if all the clips have stops in them it still doesn’t do any good.
I would put each image on the timeline and its accompanying crossfade, but I’d end up with an animation with 10,000 frames. Lame. There has to be a way to do this with symbols.
Could I put a keyframe on each subsequent frame and load each image in a blank clip, and then dispose of it and play the next clip in the same empty container?
This is one of those times when Flash seems so needlessly complex. Macromedia crows on and on about “clips within clips” as being such an easy way to work in Flash, and then something as basic as this is so arcane in its implementation. I just want to play one clip after the other. Does it need to be this obscure?
