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From: Outside5.com on 7 May 2008 03:37
Hi all,

My page loads a default swf using SWFObject, which in turn loads other swfs
containing page content. Using SWFObject, I have non Flash content for the
default page that loads if the flash player is not present.

I would like to have each flash page replicated as an HTML page, passing the
flash page to load into the default Flash page.

For example, if the user visits mysite.com/aboutus.cfm, the page should pass
in aboutus.swf as the page for default.swf to load, or if the user visits
mysite.com/services.cfm, then services.swf should be passed in to the
default.swf movie.

I have tried the method shown on http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/, using:
<script type="text/javascript">
var so = new SWFObject("default.swf",
"flash", "760", "800", "9", "#FFFFFF");
so.addParam("wmode", "transparent");
so.addParam("allowscriptaccess", "samedomain");
so.addVariable("movieToLoad", "homepage_v1.swf");
so.write("flash");
</script>

but this fails to load the movie "homepage_v1.swf" using the following in my
default Flash page:
// LOAD DEFAULT PAGE
loadMovie(_root.movieToLoad, 10);

Any advice on where I am going wrong?

TIA,
Paul

From: clbeech on 7 May 2008 07:54
well this is kind of like doing everything 'twice' - however the main problem
here appears to be that you are using a 'number' in the 'target' parameter of
the loadMovie method instead of a MC (ie. 10) - if you are attempting to target
a 'level' then you need to use loadMovieNum() - but using the MovieClipLoader
class is much better and offers many handlers and methods that are not
available when using loadMovie().

the reason i say this is like doing everything twice is that you really only
need to load that 'default' swf once - then within it you should have methods
designed to load all other swf 'page' files - there's no need to navigate to
another URL or cfm page -load the default again-and then load another file.
this can all be done without 'reloading' the default simply by calling your
loading method within the default script that contains your navigation
structure and a MC 'holder' clip.

From: Outside5.com on 7 May 2008 12:51
Thank you clbeech,

I think you may have misunderstood me (if I have not misunderstood you).

My reasoning for doing what I am is that each flash page will have its own
search engine friendly html page, for example aboutus.html. All pages will
contain an html version of the site complete with links, which will be replaced
by the swfobject for browsers with Flash capabilities.

So once google (without Flash player) has indexed all my html pages, if a user
clicks on the google result for about us, the aboutus.html page will load,
which will then load the default Flash movie, passing in a variable telling it
to load aboutus.swf as the default page. If the user clicks the result for
services.html, that html page will load, which will again load the same default
flash page, passing in the variable telling it to load services.swf.

It all works when hardcoding the swf to load into the first frame as outlined
in my snippet above, but does not seem to like the variable name.

Any other ideas anyone?

Thanks,
Paul

From: clbeech on 7 May 2008 13:36
lol - hey that's fine :)

however i still believe that the problem here is the '10' in the loadMovie
call - and if you are targeting level10 then you would want to use
loadMovieNum() instead.

also depending on the codes location you may not need _root.

another though here is to run a trace on the var and see if it's getting
through properly to the default swf

just: trace(movieToLoad); previous to the the loadMovie call.

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