FLASH: IE 4.01 (Mac): Unable to Communicate with Flash Movie

[Devon Girard]

  Hello --


  The site I'm creating includes a page with VCR-like controls, programmed

with Javascript, that manipulate a flash.swf movie.  I'm not using issuing

any FSCommands from the flash movie itself, and only need to use the

following functions:


  Play()

  GotoFrame()


  The flash movie is included with the following (dynamically generated) HTML:


<EMBED NAME="swfmovie" ID="swfmovie" SRC="movie.swf" WIDTH=298 HEIGHT=323

swLiveConnect=TRUE QUALITY=autohigh PLAY=false LOOP=false>

</EMBED>


  I have tried encasing the EMBED tag with an OBJECT tag, as shown in

various technical references (on the Macromedia site, and others), and

haven't found it to make any difference -- so I left it out.


  Now, on Netscape 4.x (both platforms) and IE 4.01 (Win95) everything

works perfectly.  Play() and GotoFrame() work as expected.  With IE 4.01

(Mac) I get a script error (very informative, I know -- but it doesn't give

my any other info) when I try to access those commands from the movie

object.


  Any ideas?  Anyone else experiencing something similar?


dg




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