Random swf movie loader (continuous)

[markmod1]

Hi All,

As a newbie I'm trying to solve a little problem I have with a web site flash header i'm creating and bow to your knowledge of using Flash...

I'm using MX and have a header that has a Flash movie in it...this has to be a random one of 47 files...one should load and play randomly and then when this has finished it should load another randomly from the same folder and then that play in full until that has finished and then another.. etc etc

So a random movie loader flash file loading randomly from a single folder containing 47 .swf files (perhaps with a preloader- each swf file is about 27k)

Either this is very simple..or very hard as there is only random loaders on the web which random load images on page refresh (not as a continuous never ending random movies...) and i'm getting square eyes from searching and looking!!

Your help would be greatly appreciated on this..Many thanks in advance....

[Sgaspar11]

I don't think this is necessarily easy.

I would probably create 1 flash file with the blank MovieClip to load the .swf's in with.

I would then create an xml file that has each .swf and load/call it into the flash file.

I would then put the contents of the xml file into an array and randomize the array, then display the array...

Something like that...

Here is a bit about loading random movies to get you started, but it uses a page refresh to trigger it.

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/acti...ndom_movie.htm

There might be an easier way, but I don't know of it.

P.S. You might play around with adding this code or something like this onto the end of each .swf...that way in selects one of the random .swfs and loads it when once is complete...something to think about.