How to prevent flash animation from refreshing when returning to a screen?
September 10, 2013 12:00 AM
I have a screen where I play an animation and when it is done, I want the animation to stay open where it ended. It's an animation of a briefcase opening with a dollar amount showing. I have to come back to this page (Main Menu) 16 times during the course but whenever I come back the page and of course the animation refreshes and goes to the beginning. Is there any way to control this .swf so it doesn't refresh? I want the user to see that this briefcase has been opened and the contents have already been shown so they will select a new briefcase to open. I have a total of 16 of these identical animations that the user can choose to open upon returning to the screen.
Any and all help would be greatly appreciated.
Discussion (1)
This is doable. In Lectora set up a variable, lets call it donePlaying and set it to 0.
In flash on first frame add this code
var tmp = flash.external.ExternalInterface.call("VardonePlaying.getValue");
if (tmp == 1) {
gotoAndStop(yourLastFrame);
}
On the last frame, set the Lectora variable to 1
flash.external.ExternalInterface.call("VardonePlaying.set", 1);
Remember to add the variable as a Required Variable in the swf properties in lectora
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