Is there a way to have a SWF autoplay, but still allow for manual user input?

[markt_maker]

I am building an interactive display which contains several full screen videos and animations. But that challenge I have is it needs to autoplay when unattended, but also allow a user to stop and explore the display at will and navigate to any part of the overall display. Is it possible to have both autoplay and manual user input co-exisist in the same SWF?

[kglad · Accepted solution]

sure.

you can use a timer (that's reset whenever user input is detected) that triggers autoplay. eg,

var autoT:Timer=new Timer(10000,0);  // autoplay after 10 seconds

autoT.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER,autoF);

auto.start();

function autoF(e:TimerEvent):void{

// do whatever to restart

}

// reset whenever the mouse moves

stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_MOVE,resetF);

// reset whenever video is playing and anything else that you'll want to use to prevent resetting

function resetF(e:Event=null):void{

autoT.reset();

autoT.start();

}

[markt_maker]

Thanks, I'll give that a try, but that sounds like it sorts my issue out.

[kglad]

you're welcome.  but be careful with those videos.  you don't want users to be watching a video and after 10 seconds everything resets.  ie, while videos are playing reset the timer.