The following blog entry from Christian Cantrell may be able to shed some light for you Rick...
http://weblogs.macromedia.com/cantrell/archives/2005/06/flash_js_integr.cfm Cutter Rick Root wrote: >so, I'd like to add optional audio alerts to my chat app... and I did >that using the <embed> tag and just had the javascript play the sound >when appropriate. I used .au files for the audio. > >Some people surfed in and got the quicktime plugin alert because they >were using mozilla and didn't have quicktime installed. I know *I* >would find that to be obnoxious. > >I was thinking that using a flash movie to play the sounds might work >better.. more likely to be installed. Javascript can cause actions to >occur in flash movies, right? > >I've used actionscript to call javascript functions on a page before, >but never used javascript to trigger an event in the flash movie. > >Ultimately, I'd just like a little 1x1 flash movie that could play 2-3 >sounds.. which would be configurable via url parameter to the flash >movie itself... and then allow javascript to play the different sounds >by calling some kind of actionscript method... playSound(1) playsound(2) >etc. > >Rick > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:233083 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
