Re: FLASH: JavaScript Controls a Flash Movie

[John Dowdell]

At 11:23 AM 3/14/0, Dennis Martin wrote:

>I would like to launch a the flash html page with the flash movie embedded

>in it from the straight html (from anyone of the links), and then go to a

>specific frame in the main timeline of the embedded movie dependent on which

>link you clicked.


Hal noted that the documentation describes how Flash can talk to JavaScript

or VBScript through FSCommand, and how scripts can control Flash through

the JavaScript API. This is available in browsers which support it

(Java-enabled Netscape 3+ and ActiveX-enabled IE/Win, but not IE/Mac), and

it does require skill in the various environments you're controlling.


But for this particular "go to a particular place" task, you might want to

consider that the SWF file streams in frame order. If you have a short and

light SWF then your can use JavaScript to control the branching frame.

(Note that the event needs to be fired off *after* the object loads... see

technotes.) But if your SWF is bigger and bulkier, then it might be faster

overall to just make a few SWFs and go directly to the content you wish

instead of putting it all in a single SWF file.


A lot depends on your overall design... if you'll be constantly jumping to

new pages each of which shows different parts of the same SWF, then the

single-file approach might be useful. If you're actually showing different

content on different pages, though, then it might be faster for the

audience to just use multiple SWFs and simple HTML.


jd








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