FLASH: Flash 4 timing loop

[Harrison, Len]

Hi all,


Feeling very dumb today. 

Objective: Display a splash screen with option buttons for m milliseconds,

then go on to main movie.


Things I've tried:

Single Frame:

Stop

Set Variable: "interval" = 10000

Set Variable: "startTime" = GetTimer

Loop While (True)

      Set Variable: "thisTime" = GetTimer

      If (startTime + interval  >=  thisTime)

            Load Movie ("Overview.swf", 0)

            FS Command ("loadMovie", "00Overview.swf")

      End If

End Loop


Assumption: loop will terminate when Overview.swf loads into level0.


Behavior: Overview.swf initalizes in about 1500 ms., not 10,000.


Multiframe


Frame 70:

Set Variable: "interval" = 10000

Set Variable: "startTime" = GetTimer


Frame 80:

Stop

Set Variable: "thisTime" = GetTimer

If (startTime + interval  >=  thisTime)

      Load Movie ("Overview.swf", 0)

      FS Command ("loadMovie", "00Overview.swf")

Else

      Go to Next Frame

End If


Frame 81:

Go to Previous Frame


Assumptions: None that I know of


Behavior: More or less the same as before


Variant: replaced If (startTime + interval  >=  thisTime)

         with If ((startTime + interval)  >=  thisTime)

Result: no change


I have several other variants and a bunch of traces thrown in for some, but

all behave the same way, essentially and these are the two main

alternatives. 


Does anyone have a clue what I'm doing wrong here?


BTW the Load Movie and FS loadMovie commands are old code, tested, and work

okay by themselves. They exist to support multiple platforms (browsers and

Director, which doesn't support layered .swfs)


TIA,


len harrison

instructional designer

lenhabtcorp [dot] com

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