[pmwiki-users] Flashplayer recipe question

[Crisses]

On Nov 13, 2006, at 6:01 PM, Tegan Dowling wrote:

> Hi, list:
>
> I'm using the recipe from http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/Flash to
> display .swf files on our wikis.  Can anyone tell me if there's a
> switch I can add that will prevent the sin of autoplay?
>
> ________________________________


Change the flash movie so it doesn't autoplay :)

I believe this involves putting a pause at frame 0 or 1 (I forget  
where Flash starts counting frames).  So the movie loads then waits.   
Sometimes people put a pretty picture for the holding screen, with a  
button for "Play".

I am not sure you can cause it not to autoplay in HTML, so I'm not  
sure PmWiki's plug-in is responsible for this.  It would probably be  
part of the movie itself... I suppose you could use JavaScript to  
have a "Play this Movie?" link on the page, then JavaScript changes  
the HTML to load the movie when someone gives permission -- but  
usually the point is to have the movie loading.  Once the movie is  
loading, I think it's up to the movie what it will do when it's ready.

Please let me know if I'm wrong.  I'm not a Flash guru!!  but I  
probably should be ;)

Crisses