I need to load SWF applications into my Director files. Currently, I am using
the timeline with an arbitrary amount of time. My problem is that the length
(playtime) of these SWFs are dependent on the end-user interactivity. If they
press every button, answer every questions, etc? one viewer could be done in 5
minutes and another user could be done in 30 minutes. I have no way of
determining. Currently, my timeline will run out and I send the users to a Menu
screen. Is there a way to dynamically load a SWF and have it play indefinitely?
I will have a button on the screen if the use wishes to exit early.

Thanks in advance for any help with this problem!-
|rossimo|

hi rossimo:
Maybe this is totally dumb to suggest, but what if you add a "go to the frame" command, wouldn't that hold the play head and still allow your SWF to run properly?

Rafael.

Thanks for the reply Rafael!-

No suggestion would be dumb. I am a Flash user trying to get terms with
Director 11. I am still trying to wrap my head around the differences in
timelines. I would have thought that would stop the playback of the SWF, but I
think you may be correct! I will give that a shot and report back. More to
come...

|rossimo|

In Director, 'go to the frame' works VERY differently than Flash's
'stop()' command. It does not stop anything on the stage from doing
things. It only stops the timeline from progressing.

If you have a swf sprite that takes up only one frame, and it has a
frame script like this:

on exitFrame me
go to the frame
end

then that swf will continue to play until you tell Director to go to
another frame.