Flash animations are terminating before their end time

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Discussion Overview

The discussion revolves around issues encountered while creating a slide presentation in Flash, specifically focusing on animations terminating prematurely and a naming conflict with the timeline frames. Participants are exploring the technical aspects of Flash animations and behaviors applied to slides.

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  • Technical explanation
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Main Points Raised

  • One participant describes a problem where animations are ending before their intended time, causing slides to advance prematurely.
  • Another participant suggests that reviewing the Flash source file could help diagnose the issue, indicating various potential reasons for the described behavior.
  • A participant explains their process of setting behaviors on keyframes and expresses concern that the behavior may be triggered as soon as an object appears on the screen, rather than at the end of the timeline.
  • One participant notes that setting the behavior for the last frame of the first slide affects the timing for all subsequent slides, causing them to transition at the same frame, which may not align with their individual timelines.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants have not reached a consensus on the cause of the issues described. Multiple viewpoints and potential solutions are presented, but the discussion remains unresolved regarding the specific technical problems and their solutions.

Contextual Notes

Limitations include the lack of access to the actual Flash source file, which may contain additional context necessary for troubleshooting. The discussion also highlights potential misunderstandings about how behaviors are applied across different slides.

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I am making a slide presentation in flash. I have created some animation in a few slides. I have put a behavior on the last frame of the timeline telling it to change to the next slide. The problem is that after a few slides the following message is coming

Code: 
The name "frame" has already been chosen. Please choose another name.

Also my presentation isn't following the timelines correctly as quite a few animations are terminating before their end time and making the presentation move on to the next slide prematurely.

Please help me
Thank you
 
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It would be a lot easier for me if i could look at your flash source file. I work with flash a lot, and there are plenty of reasons i can think of why your flash movie would be behaving as you describe.
 
Well, the file is 2.5 MB right now so I don't know how to send it over. Plus I am a novice at flash.

But this is basically what I did. I made a few slides and copied a few images into them as in powerpoint. I made different layers animating several of them. Then I applied the transitions behaviors to each slide. After that I double clicked on the end keyframe of one layer in each slide and set the behavior to change to the next slide.
The object of the respective layer was selected when I set the behavior so its possible that as soon as the object appears on the screen, the behavior is activated.
I wanted a way so that when the slide reaches the last frame of the timeline it automatically moves on to the next slide.
 
I was just playing around with it and noticed that if I set the behavior of the last frame in the first slide to change to the next slide, the point at which the one slide changes to the next, in all slides goes to the frame I set in the first slide. For example, if my motion timline is ending at frame 24 in first slide and I set the behavior of the keyframe to change to the next slide, each and every slide will change to its respective next slide at the 24th frame.
 

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