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Use Javascript to interact with Flash
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Click me!I've now redesigned my portfolio page, and as a result there's no space for this little feature, so I'm going to write about it instead and give the example.17
2010
It's a handy way of having extra interaction on the web page, by allowing a nice little animation every time a link is clicked. I was using a jQuery plugin to load content dynamically, and it gave me the idea that because the rest of the page outside of the target div is static, it would be good to have a small animation. So each time the page swapped from one section to another, this little guy pressed the button.
The Javascript used is pretty much the same as that found at Permadi. Just copy that code and stick it in some 'script' tags:
function getFlashMovieObject(movieName)
{
if (window.document[movieName])
{
return window.document[movieName];
}
if (navigator.appName.indexOf("Microsoft Internet")==-1)
{
if (document.embeds && document.embeds[movieName])
return document.embeds[movieName];
}
else // if (navigator.appName.indexOf("Microsoft Internet")!=-1)
{
return document.getElementById(movieName);
}
This allows the browser to communicate with Flash. Next, it needs to be told what to tell Flash once the command is given. In my case, my Flash file was looping between frames 60 and 111, once the initial part of the animation (lasting 60 frames) had finished, so I wanted a 'gotoAndPlay(112) command:
function PlayFlashMovie()
{
var flashMovie=getFlashMovieObject("robot");
flashMovie.GotoFrame(112);
flashMovie.Play();
}
Note that I have called the Flash file 'robot', and this needs to be defined above. To display the
AC_FL_RunContent( "codebase","http://download.macromedia.com /pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,28,0","width","312","height","250","src","flash/robot","wmode","opaque", "allowfullscreen","true", "quality","high", "pluginspage","http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash","movie","flash/robot", "swliveconnect","true", "name","robot" );
This method of displaying Flash is probably quite out of date, but it works and doesn't produce errors as far as I know.
Finally, add a button, just a standard 'a' link and include the onClick action:
onclick="playFlashMovie();"
And that's it! Your Flash movie should now gotoAndPlay frame 112. You just have to be careful to design your animation so that if someone goes crazy and keeps clicking, it still looks OK. And if it's in a loop as mine is, that it doesn't matter from which frame of the animation it jumps from. You should add in an extra bit to the Flash telling it to trigger a certain animation once it reaches the happy frame though. Now if only Flash worked on Apple devices...
Credit for the code goes to Permadi.com.
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Well, here it is. My first tutorial. I've decided to write this tutorial on creating a basic RSS/XML feed in PHP because it's something I couldn't really find a good tutorial on to suit my needs, so hopefully this will help somebody out. The same technique can also be applied to create XML feeds for sitemaps, which is always good for search engines.I'll assume you have content being fed from an...