FLASH: Layers & Flash in Netscape

[Jose M. Rubio/DoubleYou]

Hi everybody


Got some problems here.


I'm trying to create a layer on the fly with a Flash movie embeded in it, 

and I've got some issues that get me stuck:


	1.- FS_Command doesn't seem to work inside of a dynamic layer. Neither in 

Explorer or Netscape. Funny enough, a GetURL("javascript:myfunction()") 

seems to work pretty well, while it was not working when I had my movie 

outside the layer in IE 4.

	That's not a big problem since as I've said it works fine (and I've got my 

fingers crossed).


	2.- Now I'm trying to control the movie via javascript with goToFrame() 

and Play (). No problems in IE using a function to retrieve the movie name 

("window.mylyr.document[objName]").

	In Netscape that function is not enough 

("document.mylyr.document[objName]"). When I initialize my layers I have to 

"force" Netscape to "realize" it is a Flash movie in the page, so I call a 

function which just does: "document.mylyrDiv.document.embeds[0]".

	Weird, uh? Well, it can get even worse. If the Flash Movie is really small 

(between 10-15 Kb) it works fine. But when the movie is bigger (I'm working 

with a 95 Kb movie, so it's not that big), I get the following javascript 

error:


	"unable to reflect embed with index 0 - not loaded yet?."


	So I tried to workaround this. I made a little preloader for my movie so 

when it's fully loaded it calls the "document.mylyrDiv.document.embeds[0]" 

function. And I get the same error!!!!!!!!!!



Since this is driving me nuts any clue will be greatly appreciated.


TIA



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Jose M. Rubio

DoubleYou

josedoubleyou [dot] com

http://www.doubleyou.com

Tel. +34 93 292 3110

Fax. +34 93 292 2197

ICQ Number: 68390036



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