Looping Finished Movie Using Actionscript

I'll admit, I know very little about Flash, and the FlashEff component has allowed me to create a very nice looking flash ad banner for a client. However, I need the banner to loop, and I'm assuming that I need to do this in Actionscript, ideally after around 5 seconds has passed. Anyone got any clues as to how this might be done?

TIA
Phil

We have now posted a few video tutorials that might help you in starting to understand and use FlashEff. The tutorials are very straightforward and all the necessary knowledge os very well explained. This is a tutorial on how to create a banner using FlashEff: http://www.flasheff.com/tutorials/webBanner.html and also, here is a tutorial on how to create a slide show: http://www.flasheff.com/tutorials/slideShowpres.html.

You should also check out all the other video tutorials we have: http://www.flasheff.com/tutorials/.

Hope this helps.

I have gone through the tutorials but have seen nothing that explains this. One tutorial explains how to add a button that causes the slide show to start over, but I am having problems creating an auto loop. On my AS layer in the last frame of the slide show, I placed a "gotoAndPlay(1);" command. It does respond, but on the second loop, it begins to skip some slides, (the 2nd and 4th ones), and then eventually falls into a loop of just the first slide.

Please make sure you have added enough frames to your FlashEff animations. For example, in case your flash movie has a frame rate of 30 fps, you would need 60 frames for a 2 seconds animation.

negush Wrote:
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> Please make sure you have added enough frames to
> your FlashEff animations. For example, in case
> your flash movie has a frame rate of 30 fps, you
> would need 60 frames for a 2 seconds animation.

This was the problem... thanks very much.

Have the same problem. I have several text animations coming in sequence. At the end of the last one, I want to start the whole clip again starting at frame 1 (infiinte loop). I tried to add the number of frames you mentioned (though I'm not sure how to be sure I add the exact number of frames) but not way. It doesn't work....HELP. Thanks in advance.

bressst
maybe your problem is different from the others...so you may need to add a blank keyframe next to the last frame. if not, just see what is your frame rate and how many frames do you have, in order to check the seconds you set for flash eff

How do I loop my Effin video? It's so good and it's a shame this hiccup is stopping me doing my best with it!

If you would did a quick search you would have found a lot of ways to create a loop. Here is another way: listen to the Transition End listener of the component.
myEffect is the FlashEff component instance name.

myEffect.addEventListener(FLASHEFFEvents. TRANSITION_END, transitionEndHandler);
function transitionEndHandler(evtObj:FLASHEFFEvents): void
{ if(myEffect.currentTransitionType=="hide")
{ trace("The transition has ended.");
this.gotoAndPlay(1);
}
}

Ionut Wrote:
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> If you would did a quick search you would have
> found a lot of ways to create a loop. Here is
> another way: listen to the Transition End listener
> of the component.
> myEffect is the FlashEff component instance name.
>
> myEffect.addEventListener(FLASHEFFEvents.
> TRANSITION_END, transitionEndHandler);
> function
> transitionEndHandler(evtObj:FLASHEFFEvents): void
> { if(myEffect.currentTransitionType=="hide")
> { trace("The transition has ended.");
> this.gotoAndPlay(1);
> }
> }

I am getting this error when I add the actionscript
Description: 1046: Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant: FLASHEFFEvents.
Source: function transitionEndHandler(evtObj:FLASHEFFEvents): void

Any ideas?

I forgot to add
import com.jumpeye.Events.FLASHEFFEvents;



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/23/2009 09:48PM by phoenixcoyotes.

I'm sorry I didn't add that, my bad. If anything comes up let me know.