Javascript -> Flash: Can't find a tutorial.
Hello!
I'm trying to make a Flash movie play after the page has fully loaded using <body onload="">.
The only tutorial I could find (I must be using some terrible search terms) on Google to communicate to a Flash video using javascript was the following:
http://www.permadi.com/tutorial/flashjscommand/
Which is probably very outdated. I found a 2004 forum post trying to use the same method, which the author there said "used to work but doesn't anymore." But it works on the initial tutorial page...
It seems like maybe older versions of Flash supported this method, but the newer ones don't?
Check out the page in question:
http://futureford.autofusion.com/test.html
How do you use javascript to command a Flash movie these days? I have the <object> set with an id of "homepageflash" and the <embed> set with a name of "homepageflash", but using the methods in the tutorial no matter how I try to reference homepageflash I get a javascript error telling me the object has no properties in both IE and FF.
Any help or a link to a more modern approach would be greatly appreciated.