Re: Keep looped Flash sound files playing across slide transitions?

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Steve,

You just found one of the many gottchas with using Flash. As others pointed
out, Flash is not native to PPT so it must use an outside app (or control)
to play them. The problem you are going to run into is that you have no
idea how other machines are set up. You can NOT simply play the sounds by
including the player, it must be installed in order to register the activex
components. It must be the right player. And it can not conflict with
anything (anti-virus) on the machine. To add to it, you can NOT use the PPT
viewer as no code or activex controls are allowed in the viewer. And
finally, the activex control will NOT run if the user has their security
settings too high in PPT.

So assuming you have a user without the proper Flash control/player they
must install it, grant it permission in the AV software, and then change
their PPT settings accordingly. Simple and easy it's not...


Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

Provider of PFCMedia http://www.pfcmedia.com




"Steve Block" <Steve Block@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have created a music education activity in PowerPoint that requires a
looped sound to continue across various slide transitions. Whilst I can do
this with .wav files, the looping is not very secure, so I would like to
use
Flash sound files. However, having embedded several of these so that they
run
perfectly on my PC, they will not work properly on my laptop. They start
fine
when the Flash button is clicked, and loop OK until I move to another
slide,
when they stop. The Flash (.swf) file clearly thinks it is still running,
as
its state still shows the 'stop sound' text programmed, even after the
presentation has been exited.

This PowerPoint activity/presentation HAS to work on any other computer in
various schools...............help me please! This is due to be published
very soon!


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