Re: [Flashcoders] ExternalInterface, embed tag and IE

2006-08-08 Thread John Dowdell
Vishal Kapur wrote of difficulty in persuading Microsoft Internet Explorer for Windows to accept messages from Adobe Flash Player when the HTML markup IE ate contained only an EMBED tag, no OBJECT: In terms of why I can't use an object tag, I should have clarified that I do not have control

Re: [Flashcoders] ExternalInterface, embed tag and IE

2006-08-01 Thread Geoff Stearns
the short answer is you probably just need to give the embed tag an Id attribute. the long answer is: why can't you use an object tag? that makes absolutely no sense at all. even more: you should be using a Javascript solution like SWFObject anyway, since that will skip the 'click to

Re: [Flashcoders] ExternalInterface, embed tag and IE

2006-08-01 Thread Vishal Kapur
I have tried giving the embed tag an id attribute as well, with no change. I guess no one has tried this before? It seems possible that this is a bug/enhancement for the Flash team. In terms of why I can't use an object tag, I should have clarified that I do not have control over the HTML

[Flashcoders] ExternalInterface, embed tag and IE

2006-07-31 Thread Vishal Kapur
Hello, I am trying to use ExternalInterface on a flash movie loaded via an embed tag in Internet Explorer. (For specific reasons I do not want to use the object tag and I can't use firefox). I have set allowScriptAccess=always and I have specified the 'name' attribute. However, when I try to