make it stop looping in explorer!

[t3mul3nt]

i thought it was supposed to be easy... in the embed tag you included the line loop=false and a short flash animation would play itself out and stop on the last frame.

and for netscape it works. but the other white meat just keeps looping it over and over and over, even worse, it starts looping each individual layer once it ends regardless of the others.

i'm totally in diapers with flash, but really i just wanted a simple intro that loaded, started, and ended. (oh, and if anyone could tell me the action to put into the flash document that wouldn't let it play until it had fully loaded i'd appreciate it too)

so what does explorer want? NOLOOP? LOOP=NEVER? LOOP="CUT IT OUT YOU MICROSOFT PIECE OF CRAP"? should i just yell at it?

judson/t3mul3nt

[Ian]

Hi and a warm welcome to HTMLForums t3mul3nt.

While I do not have an answer for you, I would like to congratulate you on your entertaining post. It is good to see that although you are pulling your hair out over your problem, you have not lost your sense of humor.
Thanks and I hope someone can supply an answer for you.

[Dr. Web]

hahahahhahahahahahhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! That was a hi-larry-ous post! try loop="false"

yes I know you already tried that, and you say it doesn't work??! Wrong. It does work. I just tested it in IE 5.0, 5.5, and N4.7

Don't believe me? Goto http://www.volcanic-design.com and watch my "welcome" intro. Plays once. Stops. No magic there.

where did you make the flash app? Swish? FlashTyper from Flashkit? Sometimes those apps incluse a repeating action which is INSIDE the flash movie. This would override the HTML you type in.

If nothing else, post your:
HTML file (URL)
and the .fla (flash uncompressed file)
so I can look at it.

[sillyfish]

When you code your object, it should look like the following:

<OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=5,0,0,0" WIDTH=550 HEIGHT=400>
<PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="yourmovie.swf">
<PARAM NAME=loop VALUE=false>
<PARAM NAME=menu VALUE=false>
<PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high>
<PARAM NAME=bgcolor VALUE=#000000>
<EMBED src="yourmovie.swf" loop=false menu=false quality=high bgcolor=#000000 WIDTH=550 HEIGHT=400 TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash">
</EMBED>
</OBJECT>

I have a movie that works perfectly in NN/IE/NN6. Also, in the movie, I jump to a url on the last frame...that may help.

HTH
-sillyfish

[t3mul3nt]

i've had loop=false in the embed tag and haven't tried it in quotes yet, if that fixes it then i'm pleased as punch. all i know for now is that i can never trust what netscape 4.6 on a mac tells me... wish i had a windows machine around to see what the other 95% sees.

thanks again for your help, i'm coming to the realization that throwing the monitor down the steps is ineffectual, however satisfying.

out-t3mul3nt

[Dr. Web]

Your going to have to post more often. Its good for a few laughs! I haven't viewed too much on a mac, as the market share for mac users is really tight. The new G4 cube is sharp though! I do know of some limitations on the mac, but overall my pages do ok on them.

[jonirvine]

http://www.new.101tutorials.com/tutorials/tutorial.asp?Tutorial_Id=2&TutCat_Id=1