>It is now time to let the fanciness commence ;)
But of course ;-) Why not fight fancyness with fancyness? In your flash
movie, try this actionscript on the first frame:
getURL("javascript:$('#FP').doWhatever('abc',123);");
If you wanted to do that for multiple flash movies, you'd just have to
pass in the appropriate id as a flashvar :-)
Cheers,
Luke
P.S. A bit of shameless self-promo here ... why not use the jQuery Flash
plugin (http://jquery.lukelutman.com/plugins/flash)?
Brice Burgess wrote:
> Luke, Sam ->
>
> Thank you for clarifying the issue for me. It's always the simple
> things that take the longest to debug ;(
>
> Another thing I learned is that if the DOM element containing the
> embedded flash is hidden (display: none), I cannot send
> commands/interact with the SWF via Javascript. I would get "[method
> name] is not a method" errors. There is apparently a small delay when
> showing/hiding/creating the flash videos -- which is related to my
> $().ready() issue. To get around this, I wrote a simple queue plugin
> which continually tries to execute a method until it is successful.
> Here's the code;
>
> (function($) {
> $.fn.fq = function(o) { var i=this[0].id; $.fq.q(i,o,0); return this; }
> $.fq = {
> q: function(i,o,c) { if(c>20) return; var e=$('#'+i)[0];
> (e[o]) ? e[o]() :
> setTimeout("$.fq.q('"+i+"','"+o+"',"+(c+1)+");",350); return; }
> };
> })(jQuery);
>
> Example use;
> --------------------
> <div id="fp"></div>
> ...
> var fo = new SWFObject("flowplayer/FlowPlayer.swf", "FP", "730", "510",
> "7");
> ...
> fo.write("fp");
>
> $('#FP').fq('DoPlay'); // Continually try to execute the DoPlay method
> on the DOM element created by SWFObject.
>
> NOTE: I think my method queue function doesn't work in opera. The whole
> thing may be garbage [quick hack on no sleep] ;) Also.. for some reason
> in seems that if I cache the element ($('#'+i)[0]) it will never detect
> the new method.. so I perform the getElementByID() function per loop cycle.
>
> Luke Lutman wrote:
>> Since you're not doing anything fancy, why not just pass the config as
>> flashvars and save
>> yourself a world of hurt? ;-)
>>
> It is now time to let the fanciness commence ;)
>
> ~ Brice
>
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