I’ve got a flash menu object, and I’d like it to show which page the user is on. So rather than making 10 different menus for the 10 pages to which it applies, I want to make a single menu, and tell it which page has called it.

In the actionscript, there are variables for each page: music=1;video=2,art=3 etc. And in the first frame, I’d like to set menutarget=music or menutarget=video, etc.

Now to the SWFObject part:

so.addVariable(”menutarget”, “music”);

doesn’t seem to work, and I’m not sure why. Perhaps it’s treating music as a string, but using Number(menutarget) doesn’t help, nor does anything else I’ve tried. Even

so.addVariable(”menutarget”, “1″);

doesn’t seem to work, so I’m not sure I’m doing it right. Any ideas?

And thanks again… I developed the site on a mac, and about died when I saw how windows handled the flash. You totally saved my day.

so.addVariable("“zoomifyImagePath", "../../images/portfolio/campus/onu3D/");

instead of this:
so.addParam("FlashVars", “zoomifyImagePath=../../images/portfolio/campus/onu3D/");

Hey, GREAT little script you’ve created here! I was just working in Dreamweaver 8.0.2 tonight, getting all of those “automatically update your code?” messages for my Flash embeds, when I came across your SWFobject function. Installed it and it works great…except for one thing: Whenever I display a FlashVars object in MS Internet Explorer 6, then refresh the page, my Flash content “disappears”.

For an example of what I am talking about, you can visit: http://www.mapformation.com/portfolio/campus/onu3D.htm

My code specific to the problem is:

<script type=”text/javascript” src=”../../templates/scripts/swfobject.js”></script>
<div id=”flashcontent”>3D Perspective Campus Map of Ohio Northern University, complete with magnification functionality using Zoomify technology.</div>
<script type=”text/javascript”>
var so = new SWFObject(”../../images/zoom/zoomifyViewer.swf”, “mymovie”, “700″, “450″, “6″, “#A7A690″);
so.addParam(”FlashVars”, “zoomifyImagePath=../../images/portfolio/campus/onu3D/”);
so.addParam(”MENU”, “FALSE”);
so.addParam(”wmode”, “transparent”);
so.write(”flashcontent”);
</script>

Any ideas? It’s weird that the Flash doesn’t refresh in the page. Thanks!

Derek

Thanks for the article.

Please help me …?

How can I install flash player plugin (version 8 ) in browser without
downloading setup or redirecting to macromedia site if flash plugin is not
available in browser.

what i mean is make the client stay in there page without going macromedia site for installing flash player, ofcorse i encorage the securiy warning box given by windows ( for IE ) for installing flash player.