Powerpoint and Flash

[Dilbert]

I was doing homework for Spanish 1 and I came across a problem. I have two Flash animations in my Powerpoint, but the sounds embedded in them play immediately, as in at the beginning of the slide show. This causes more than a little annoyance. I need to know soon: How can I stop the sounds until I reach that slide?

And no, computers do not have anything to do with the homework.

[Rob Pomeroy]

If you right-click on the Flash animation are any Flash controls exposed?

[Dilbert]

In preview mode, yes. However, the sounds are playing even though "play" is unchecked, and it's doing it in Slide Editing mode (my name for what you see when you first open PowerPoint)!

School is in one hour, I'm probably too late and will have to just mute it. But I should know for future reference.

[Rob Pomeroy]

You may need to use Flash's API (via Visual Basic) to control how the Flash animation activates.  Can't help you with that. I'm afraid.  Not familiar with the Flash API, and very rarely use Powerpoint.

There might be a simpler answer.  If you're happy to email the presentation to me, I'll be glad to take a look and see if I can figure it out.  PM me, if so.  Not that I have any great insight, but two heads might be better than one.

Unless someone else here can answer the question definitively...

[T-Chai]

It probably cause by is own Flash coding
You might have to program the (.swf) it self that if you have the working document files (.flash)
I know a similar thing that happen before that is cause by this problem
What i did is put an mp3 file in a flash files, the play lenth of flash is shorter than is music play lenth, and i also didnot time control
so what happen is the flash file will play at the same time as the music would start and when the file loops the music will still be playing.

ps. how do you display your logo at the buttom?

[Rob Pomeroy]

ps. how do you display your logo at the buttom?

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