CHALLENGE: sm. novelty of a/s

[Clown Staples]

Look at what the right click menu can do.

http://www27.brinkster.com/clownstaples/rclick02.html

Try all the play, forward, rewind and back options to see what they do.
This is not normal behavior. See if you can figure out how to make a swf that behaves the same way.

(Bonus: make the Loop option actually do something)

[thoriphes]

my guess is you keep track of the previous frame as well as the "requested" frame of the movie. when a movie normally plays, the "requested" frame is always prev+1 right? now a simple if statement can test otherwise and call the necessary functions for playing backwards, blah blah blah...

[Clown Staples]

sort of. try it out and see if you can make it work. (I actually had the whole animation inside a separate clip.)

[thoriphes]

arhg...too tired i need rest. maybe tomorrow.