Subj : Control Flash from JS - work in IE but not in Mozilla - anything
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : MJatthias Krok <moziall@open4all.net>
Date : Sat Feb 01 2003 05:17 pm

Hi there !

Subject sais it all: I made a really nice nav-menu in flash, that needs to be 
controlled from some buttons outside this flash-object. works really great in IE 
(so I can use it anyway) but it would be such a pity to fall back on the 
non-flash-version for mozilla users.

This is the js-call i use:

function flash_cmd(cmd) {
	var movie = window.document.navmovie;
	movie.SetVariable("cmd", cmd);
}

while this is the object-tag:

<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" id="navmovie" 
codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0" 
width="100" height="470">
         <param name="movie" value="nav3black.swf">
	<param name="quality" value="high">
	<embed src="nav3black.swf" name="navmovie" swliveconnect=true id="navmovie" 
quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" 
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="100" height="470"></embed>
</object>


Last tjing I tried was to make sure, the embed-tag includes not only 
name=objectName but also swliveconnect=true. nothing helps... ah and btw, 
macromedia sais, it should work, but only with Flash-Player rev40 and above - 
mine is rev60 or higher...

any (any!) hints or suggestions ?

....would be greatly appreciated ;-)

see you..

Matthias

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