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

Amy C. Sanders amy at raine.net
Tue Sep 26 12:10:01 PDT 2006


Thank you for your response.

I'm so glad. This means I'm not an idiot for not figuring this out :)

On 9/26/06, Geoff Stearns <geoff at deconcept.com> wrote:
> 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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