fastForward function?

[fad]

Hi everyone,

hope you can help me with this.

I've got some kind of product presentation, being shown like a movie. Now my boss asks me for a function to accelerate the presentation like with a VCR.
Is there any possibility to do so, perhaps by changing the movies framerate temporarely?

thx for any answers
fad

p.s.: It's Flash5

[Filipinho]

I`m sorry to say that you cant change the frame rate dynamicly. I have seen some tutorial about how to fake this. I don`t remember were I saw it and it was advanced.

Another way to do this is to use _root.gotoAndPlay(_root._currentFrame+2) This should double the speed but it won`t be smooth.

I hope this will help you!

[fad]

Yes I thought om something like showing only every second frame, too, but I have actionscript in the frames to control parts of the movie and I would probably skip some of them.

Thx anyway - if you remind those tutorials, please tell me.

[Filipinho]

I looked in my computer and I found that I downloaded the fla file.
So here it is... :)

[fad]

Hi Filipinho,

thx a lot, that was just what I was looking for.
I just downloaded the file and have yet to figure out how it's done exactly - but it looks great.

thx again

fad

[Filipinho]

Have you figured it out yet?

[fad]

Yes, I got it now.

The trick is to set framerate to max and then insert an object that insert a pause every time it comes to the next frame.

Had to do some extra work cause I have multiple swf-files that start and control each other, so actually I've got all swfs with maximum framerate and multiple objects to control the pausetimes, but it works :) .

By the way, a pause button would be good to, but when I just use stop() and play() I can just control the main mc and any child objects keep on playing.
I think I will try to use the frameLimiter object for this, too.

Or do you have any better idea?

[Abelius]

What do you call maximum framerate? How many fps...? :)

[pixelwit]

I'm not sure what technique you're using but maybe this thread will help: http://www.actionscripts.org/forums/showthread.php3?threadid=13001

-PiXELWiT
http://www.pixelwit.com

[fad]

@Abelius

Flash->Modify->Movie->Frame Rate. The possible values are 0.0 to 120.

[Abelius]

That's why I asked... I don't recommend the 120 frame rate, except if you have to save someone's life with it... :)

[fad]

Hi,

what`s the problem about it? Is it too hardware expensive?
My movie seems to work good with it.

[Ricod]

Alternatively, u could make a fast forward button by writing a loop for the on press that makes your movie go to the _Currentframe + 4 for instance. That way, u'll be going forward 4 frames per frame ... going 4x, without tampering with the framerate of your movie.

[fad]

Yes I thought om something like showing only every second frame, too, but I have actionscript in the frames to control parts of the movie and I would probably skip some of them.

Thx everybody. I think the way shown in the file posted by Filipinho is working very well, so if anyone else has the same problem I would recommand that file.

Best regards fad