Dynamically change which flash movie shows EMBED problem

adacprogramming · #1 (**permalink**) 09-11-2006, 04:01 PM

The site I am working with is
http://www.halemakaicottages.com/Cottage5.aspx

What I am trying to do is when I click on one of the small pictures I want to change the large picture to show a diffent flash movie.

Currently I am using images for the small pic and a javascript onclick. When it is clicked I am changine the src for the lage pic which will be a embed

this is my code for the large Pic

Code:

<DIV align="center"><EMBED id="MainPic" src="Common/Images/bath1.swf" AUTOSTART=TRUE width="295" height="220" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></EMBED></DIV>

THis is my code for the small pic
[code][img]Common/Images/Cottage1LivingThumb.jpg[/img]

If I change this to use images it works fine, but when I do the flash, the movie does not change to the new movie, No errors, it just doesn't change.

Do I need to add something to get it to start running the new src?

Thanks For the help

holyhttp · #2 (**permalink**) 09-11-2006, 09:28 PM

I suggest you use the innerHTML property to change the embedded code. Here is a sample html page tested successfully in IE.
Feel free to use relative path. I had to use the abosulte path to get the flash files from your server.

================================================
<html>
<head>
<title></title>

</head>
<body>

<DIV align="center" id="flcontainer"><EMBED id="MainPic" src="
http://www.halemakaicottages.com/Common/Images/bath1.swf" AUTOSTART=TRUE width="295" height="220"

type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></EMBED></DIV>

Click Here

<script language="javascript">
var ie=(document.all)?1:0;

function LoadNew(mov){
var tmp;
if(ie){
tmp=eval('document.all.flcontainer');
tmp.innerHTML='<EMBED id="MainPic" src="http://www.halemakaicottages.com/Common/Images/'+mov+'" AUTOSTART=TRUE width="295"

height="220" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></EMBED>';
}

}
</script>
</body>
</html>
=============================================
Feel free to make the code cleaner and portable.

rwil02 · #3 (**permalink**) 09-12-2006, 03:41 AM

I suspect that even if you could change the src of the embed, you probably need to restart the movie.

philscanlan · #4 (**permalink**) 09-12-2006, 11:34 AM

If you wanted to have one master .swf which loads different movies into it with ActionScript, this should do the trick.

Macromedia Flash / JavaScript Integration Kit

http://weblogs.macromedia.com/flashjavascript/

http://www.communitymx.com/content/a...ge=2&cid=D7491

adacprogramming · #5 (**permalink**) 09-12-2006, 04:18 PM

Thanks for the tip. I'll give that a try. I'm currently using a round trip to the server, But I like this better.

Thanks

adacprogramming · #6 (**permalink**) 09-12-2006, 04:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rwil02

I suspect that even if you could change the src of the embed, you probably need to restart the movie.

I tried this, but I couldn't get the movie to restart. It kept playing the old one. I'm not using a control panel, I have the move play like an image.

Is there a way to have the movie restart automatically?

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