Loading specific flash movies for specific pages

[koonkle]

Hi! Here's what I'm trying to achieve - I want a single flash movie to load other specific flash movies with a specific page of my Web site loads. For example, train.swf would load when train.html loaded, and car.swf would load when car.html loaded.

Is this possible?

I'm trying to avoid just place seperate movies on the seperate pages as I want this to function in a template.

Any help is appreciated! Thank you!

[Sgaspar11]

Yes it is possible. Give me a few minutes to find you a resource. About to go to lunch and I am hungry!

[koonkle]

Thank you for your reply! Take your time!

[Sgaspar11]

Alright, you ready for this? I built something like this for our company website that dynamically loads in different skylines depending on which or our markets sites the user goes to(the asp in the actual renderring of the page sets the variable)...but we can force the variable on the page. This same concept will work with .swf's but I will explain on drawback that I am not sure how to fix on your end.

First the HTML/Embed information:

You need to declare the FlashVars on your page, and set the value of a variable.(which we will define and call later in the actual flash file.

Here it is:

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<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub...ersion=8,0,0,0" width="500" height="160" id="test" align="middle">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
<param name="FlashVars" value=ShortName=home" "/>
<param name="movie" value="070215-test1.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" />
<embed src="test.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="500" height="160" name="070215-test1" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" FlashVars="ShortName=home" />
</object>

You would then change the "home" to the appropriate page name, aka. aboutus, contact, gallery, etc...for each page.

Now in the flash file. There will need to be an empty movieclip named let's say "test_mc".

Actionscript will look like this:

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//pull in variable from website home, aboutus, contact, etc
var ShortName:String = _level0.ShortName;
 
//pull in page specific .swf this code creates the content path and grabs the ShortName variable off of the html page which we delcared a flashVar for and puts it into _root(main timeline)test_mc(empty movieclip)
loadMovie("http://scottgaspar.com/flash/ + ShortName + ".swf", _root.test_mc);

Make sure to change this path: http://scottgaspar.com/flash/ + ShortName + ".swf - to whatever your file directory is for it to work.

There you have it!

Drawbacks - I'm not sure if you will have this issue but internet browsers cache flash files fairly hard, so what might happen is that since the flash file is actualy the "same" file with just a peice of the file being loaded externally. It may cache the first page you go to(home) with that specific .swf and any other page you go to may load that exact same .swf since it is cached...make sense?

You'll have to test it out and let me know.