I'm a complete Flash n00b, but I'm having difficulty and I thought posting my question here was worth a shot, even if it's probably too complex to effectively convey here.
My client wanted a Flash intro (yuck!) so I made it so that it results in a menu with links to other pages on the site. To minimize annoying visitors, I'm using a cookie to determine if the user was already on the home page, and if so skip the whole animation and just show the menu.
I'm using the ActiveContent JavaScript library to embed Flash to my page. I'm passing a value to the Flash file via the query string (e.g., myflash.swf?animation=false
) and in Flash when reading that value using gotoAndPlay()
to jump to the last frame of the animation. I'm using ActionScript 3.
In Internet Explorer 8, and only IE, it works as intended. Unfortunately, no other browsers do this; they all show the full animation. The cookie is working correctly, but it's like Flash is totally ignoring the gotoAndPlay
command.
Since I don't really know what I'm doing, I've probably done this wrong. Like I said, I know this is a longshot without posting gobs of code, but anyone have any ideas?