Flash header, prevent re-playing on new page?

[blueocto]

Sorry to be a bit vague, but I have a Flash header that animates (no menu or anything on it).
Is there a way, using Javascript or AJAX etc, to have the animation play once, regardless of how many times a page on the website is viewed?

So it doesn't repeat the animation for each page load?

Hope that makes sense!

[Toon]

Just use a static image on the other pages

[blueocto]

We were hoping to have the flash there, as we have one part of it that loops, once the the whole animation has ran once (if that makes sense)
So if it was able to continue looping, but not reload the whole animation, that would be what we are after.

I've tried looking at shared objects and pagevisits but the info seems really limited (and im a total beginner when it comes to flash lol)

[Kim]

loop="false"

[blueocto]

loop="false"

Umm.... where would I stick that? lol

[Jamie Lucky]

In the embed code

[SineQuaNon]

Use SWFObject to embed the SWF

Pass a flashVar that'll let the SWF know if you want it to play the animation or not

In your FLA write some ActionScript that checks for the flashVar, and if true, have it gotoAndStop() on whatever frame has the looping animation part

EDIT: Wow, totally missed that fact that this is over a month old post. Whoops...

[blueocto]

lol no worries we got it sorted in the end. Thanks anyway!

[Shanice Regan]

I haven't looked at your site yet, but I'm guessing the Flash menu is pulling in the text from either an XML file or text variables from an HTML file. You will need to load that external file to your web server and make sure the path is the same relative path as on your local computer. Unix file and folder/directory names are case sensitive, so be aware of that.