If you are wanting to swap flash movies within the same dic, yuou can check
out Philip's tutorial on the subject:

http://pipwerks.com/lab/swfobject/load-onclick/2.0/index.html
(section "Using an 'onclick' event to replace a loaded SWF with another
SWF")


Cheers,
Aran

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Vincent Polite <
[email protected]> wrote:

> SWFObject is a javascript object that allows people to embed .swf files in
> their web pages.  Among other things, there is a method called .embedSWF
> that takes arguments and puts a specific .swf file that you specify,
> swapping it for a designated div.  There's nothing stopping you from calling
> that function more than once.  So depending on what you are using to trigger
> the action, it would be code on the order of:
>
> if (action1) {
>      swfObject.embedSWF(...)
> } else {
>      swfObject.embedSWF(...)
> }
>
> I would just be sure you are including the right version of the
> swfObject.js script (version 2.x) and that should do the trick.  However,
> the embed method depending on how you do it may reload the flash movie each
> time (not cached), which might be laggy and undesirable.
>
> If I were doing something like this, I would define 2 divs in your HTML
> page, one with an id="version1" and another with id="version2"
> If I needed any of these divs on page, I would define my style sheet to
> show it where it needed to be shown.  If one or both of the divs need to be
> hidden, then I would define the style on that div so that the x and y
> coordinates are off screen (like using huge negative numbers).
>
> Then you write some script that would "move" the div onto the visible part
> of the page where you want it.  You can simulate a Flash swap that way.
>
> A lot depends on what you're trying to do.  Using the method I described
> works perfectly fine for 2 flash movies, but it might not work so well if
> you had say 30...
>
> Hope this points you in the right direction.  If you do some google
> searching, there was a post a day or so ago that discussed swapping a Flash
> movie using the technique I described.
>
> Vincent
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 4:20 AM, jim holmes <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>>
>> This is all I want to do - it seems ( like a lot of things ) a
>> relatively simple task, but 2 hours later I'm no further forward. One
>> site recommended swfobject to do this, but I can find no reference to
>> doing this anyway on this site?
>> Am I looking to do something that can't be done?
>>
>> cheers
>> Jim
>>
>>
>
> >
>

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