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[Ecuaman801]

Hi. I'm trying to create a slideshow that would scroll through different ads for my bank's website. I want to have it start to "autoplay" through the ads, changing every 10 seconds or so. I would also like to have forward, pause, and back buttons so the user could scroll through them if they don't want to wait for the autoplay. I see samples of this on lots of websites to display their news headlines, like pcworld.com, and worldofwarcraft.com. Please help! Thanks in advance...
-Cam

[Demonslay]

All you'd have to do is use the gotoAndStop() and the nextFrame() methods.
For example, on your root actionscript timeline, you could have something like this.

nextButton_mc.onRelease = function(){
_root.nextFrame();
}

I honestly don't know (or understand) how to make the back button, try Googling it and playing with the results.

As for autoplay, you can use an interval.

function setAutoplay(){
var autoplay = setInterval(function(){ _root.nextFrame(); }, 10000);
}

function unsetAutoplay(){
clearInterval(autoplay);
}

playButton_mc.onRelease = function(){
setAutoplay();
}

pauseButton_mc.onRelease = function(){
unsetAutoplay();
}

I'm just learning Flash myself, but that should atleast get you started more or less.