TIME LIMIT PAGE

[BILLIS]

Hey everybody! I am a new guy here and I need some help.
I want to make a page (intro) jump automatically to another one (index) after a specifical time (eg. sec). I don't know much about advanced actions & events, except few orders such as "if", "else", so I ask your advice.
Thanks for anvance
Billis

[Derek]

Hi - you can use the splash screen option on the General tab in Project settings for this or use something like the following Actions on the Page Properties of the intended splash page:

Application.Sleep ("5")
Page.Jump ("%PageNext%")

[BILLIS]

I should have been more specific. What I am trying to do is to load a flash clip for intro.
I read another relative reply in this forum, and I found that I have to insert the flash file into the 1st page of AMS, with a link to a 2nd page-index. The bad thing about me is that I dont know how to use macromedia flash itself. Instead of that, I use Swish to make flash banners quickly. As a result, I can't make a link from the flash intro object to the autorun.exe (AMS file) that can be adjusted in a time limited space of few seconds until the last frame (of flash) will be completed.
The last choise -which I used- was to place a button "SKIP INTRO" below the flash object to do the job. But it is not a complete work.
Here we go again asking how can a page of AMS jump by itself to another one few sec later, without clicking any button or intervening in the frames of the flash movie (I cant do it!) ?

[Corey]

You can still insert fscommands with Swish can't you? (That's all you need to control AMS from your flash even if it comes from Swish)

Corey Milner
Creative Director, Indigo Rose Software (http://www.indigorose.com)

[BILLIS]

No , I don't know how to do it even with Swish.
I had found a video tutorial on Indigo Rose pages that explained this proceeding, but I can' t find it anymore. Can you let me know where is this video (*.mov) file?
I thought it was on Bnowledge Base, but I don't find AMS4 relative stuff, except for AMS3.
*The video guide gave details about linking the last frame of a flash object with an AMS4 page using FS commands.
Thanks for your response.
Bill

[Derek]

Hi - here's what you do:

<ol type="1"> In Swish, right click the last [or appropriate] Frame in the Movie Scene and choose FSCommand from the ContextMenu.
In the Action pane, you'll see the FSCommand added. Click 'FScommand' to show the command/arg boxes underneath it.
In the top of the two boxes [the command box], type something as a command: <font color=green>SplashFinished</font color=green> [for example].
Save the movie as swf file.
Import the movie into AMS and adjust accordingly.
Double click the Flash Object and goto the Actions Tab.
Add the following Actions:[/list=a]
<font color=purple>%Property% = FlashObject[Flash1].GetProperty ("Last FSCommand")</font color=purple>
<font color=blue>IF</font color=blue> <font color=purple>(%Property% = SplashFinished)
Page.Jump ("%PageNext%")</font color=purple>
<font color=blue>END IF</font color=blue>

The Actions get the last FSCommand and store it in the variable %Property%
The IF statement then checks to see if the %Property% variable contains "SplashFinished" - which it should do!
If this is the case, it jumps to the next page. If not ... it doesn't.

Hope this helps /ubbthreads/images/icons/smile.gif

[BILLIS]

Thanks for your response !

[BILLIS]

Hoo dude, it works fine !

[Corey]

Awesomeness...

Corey Milner
Creative Director, Indigo Rose Software (http://www.indigorose.com)