[SWFObject] help w/ autostart, autoplay, play upon loading...

[Geoff Stearns]

flash movies will auto play by default, so there must be something in  
your actionscript code that is making it stop (a preloader or  
something?)

the embed values won't have anything to do with this.



On Sep 26, 2006, at 2:38 PM, Amy C. Sanders wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am hoping someone can help me. I am not (at ALL) familiar with flash
> or even javascript, so itty bitty words please :)
>
> I am successful in getting the flash movies/player, everything
> embedded and it's all loading up wonderfully. However, now they want
> them to play automatically (right now, you have to push play for them
> to play).
>
> Here is my embedding stuff:
>
> <div id="swfcontent">
>
> 		<strong>We're Sorry!</strong>
> 		<br><br>This video clip requires the Adobe Flash Player plugin.  
> Please
> <a href="javascript:window.opener.location.href='/transfer.asp? 
> location=www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer';window.close();">download
> it here</a>.
> 	</div>
>
>
>                   <script type="text/javascript">
>                     var swfObj = new
> SWFObject("Player.swf","video","320","406","7","#e2edf2");
>                     swfObj.addVariable("baseVideoTitle","Video Clip
> Australia ");
>
> swfObj.addVariable("baseVideoURL","videos/CLIP2"+"_256.flv");
>                     swfObj.addVariable("baseTransURL","transcripts/ 
> 14.xml");
>                     swfObj.addParam("play", "true");
>    		    swfObj.write("swfcontent");
>                   </script>
>
>
> I tried play, autoPlay, autoStart, autostart.. Am I even doing this
> remotely correctly? Is there other information I need to give?
>
> Thank you for any help you can give.
>
>
> Amy
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