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I would like flash to only play once throughout the site?

Conditions: Its a "banner" that can be static and animated. I only want the animation to play when the user first enters the site, after that it remains static for all the other pages. The flash is in a web template. All pages have the flash movie. Situation is whenever a new page loads, flash is reloaded. Would like to stay away from frames.

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1. you have to Copy this banner dude, make the first one attached to your index page, and the second one for the other pages but with another name , that's all. You can't code this flash banner to play only at the first page and stopd!! only if the whole website is in flash... good luck. http://templates4all.blogspot.com Free Flash Templates Free html and dhtml Templates Free Blogger Templates Free Webmasters Tutorials Ways to earn money and other things... http://templates4all.blogspot.com
2. Your answer lies within FlashVars. You will need to set up a variable in the root timeline, something like: var whereis:Number =0; if (_root.whereis == 1){ gotoAndPlay(1); } else if(_root.whereis ==2){ gotoAndStop(2); } This is assuming frame 1 is the start and frame 2 is the end. You of course can use frame labels as well. The above code is standard AS2, so if you are using AS3 you will need to alter to remove _root and follow AS3 code rules. But it is very similar. Then follow flashvars instructions: http://www.mediacollege.com/adobe/flash/actionscript/flashvars.html and pass whereis ==1 or whereis ==2 from the pages on the site to the swf. Good Luck! More: http://blog.circlecube.com/2008/05/22/flashvar-tutorial/ http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_16417