inserting swf movies on same page in frontpage 2002

[Guest]

My wife is a photographer and wants to put several shockwave flash movies on
one page so that those browsing our site can click to watch the movie of
their choice. Is such a dream a reality? I know that I can put one on a page,
but I am not so sure that I did it correctly. Here is what I did...
From the position on the page where I wanted the movie to play, I clicked
"Insert">"Web Components">"Advanced Contols">selected "Plug-in". Right
clicked on the plug-in icon (by the way is there anyway to change that icon
to a picture?), selected "Plug-in properties" and found the data source (the
swf file). Clicked "OK" and it worked immediately upon entering that page on
the site.

Is there a way to make it begin only when you click on a picture linking to
it? and if so, can you add several swf movies to one page with different
picture icons?

Thanks for your help!

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

Check the Flash movie properties and turn off autoplay
- will add <param name="play" value="false"> to your code
You can also modify the actual flash files to have an on click start event
or create a thumbnail screen shot of each "starting screen" and use a JavaScript popup window to open that flash show

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| My wife is a photographer and wants to put several shockwave flash movies on
| one page so that those browsing our site can click to watch the movie of
| their choice. Is such a dream a reality? I know that I can put one on a page,
| but I am not so sure that I did it correctly. Here is what I did...
| From the position on the page where I wanted the movie to play, I clicked
| "Insert">"Web Components">"Advanced Contols">selected "Plug-in". Right
| clicked on the plug-in icon (by the way is there anyway to change that icon
| to a picture?), selected "Plug-in properties" and found the data source (the
| swf file). Clicked "OK" and it worked immediately upon entering that page on
| the site.
|
| Is there a way to make it begin only when you click on a picture linking to
| it? and if so, can you add several swf movies to one page with different
| picture icons?
|
| Thanks for your help!

 

[Andrew Murray]

The plugin icon will stay that way until you view the page (with the shockwave
file playing) - in design view it won't show anything except that plug-socket
icon thing.

To make the animation play by clicking a button of whatever, is done from within
the flash file (requires programming in the shockwave/flash scripting/programming
language) otherwise it will just start playing once loaded.