Because the .dcr will be embedded in a page with some other things, and 
visually we don't want the disruption of the whole page changing when the 
only thing that needs to change is the shockwave data.  I don't know if it 
IS possible, but I'm trying to find out.


At 02:40 AM 6/8/02 +0100, Robert Tweed wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Tab Julius" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > If I have a page, with an embedded Shockwave movie, and some params to it,
> > is it possible to issue a Javascript command (and if so, WHICH command) to
> > basically refresh the embedded Shockwave, with a new set of params,
>without
> > reloading the whole page?  I guess one way around it would be some sort of
> > a form submit that the Shockwave polled for, but that seems crude.
>
>I really can't think of any good reason to use JavaScript for this.
>JavaScript/Shockwave interaction is extremely buggy, i.e., not supported by
>all browser versions. That's at the best of times; the rest of the time it
>is turned off completely.
>
>Why do you need to reload the movie, why not just store the variables
>internally? If you want to change what is physically written to the page
>then JavaScript isn't your best bet anyway: you should just reload the
>entire page with gotoNetPage.
>
>- Robert
>
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