Rotating Banner Adds

programming flash
1

How do I create an fla that rotates banners made in flash (external flash animations) upon refresh on the browser?

2

you’d probably have to do that with javascript, and tell the browser to load a different swf each time…

3

loadMovieNum(“http://something”,0)
this says to replace _level0 which is the current swf, with a new movie, so

urlArray = [“http://…firstbanner.swf”,
“http://…secondbanner.swf”,
“http://…thirdbanner.swf”,…];

loadMovieNum( urlArray[Math.random(urlArray.length)],0);

this will replace the current movie with a random swf from the list.

4

Ok. So that replaces the last banner, but how do I go about replacing it randomly every time you refresh? Like… onLoad some random function picks some random URL from a list?

Thank you;

Nathalia

5

I actualy don’t really even understand how to use the random function in Flash. Could someone explain that function for me?

Thank you;

Nathalia

6

that should do it i think, because when you refresh it sould reload the movie with that code in it…
which would cause a new random number to be selected and a different movie to be loaded

random() = random number between 0 and 1
random()*100 =random number between 0 and 100
random()*n =random number between 0 and n
random()*100-50 =random number between -50 and 50

random(100) = random integer between 0 and 100 , you wont get 23.4 or anything like that
random(n) = random integer between 0 and n
random(myArray.length) = random number of a member of the array

myArray[random(myArray.length)] = a random entry from the array

thats some random basics

im 65 % sure everything i just told you is off by 1 but you can check