Active Webpage in Flash (SWF) book?

We recently updated to CS5.5 Design Premium with the hopes we could do amazing things. One thing that we wanted to replicate in Flash was:
http://discomap.eea.europa.eu/map/discomapdemo/
We've been able to create the SWF file separate from the active webpage (iframe) which works but not exactly the same.
Been looking for a way in InDesign and Flash to be able to link and pull active content through the design to display the way it is in the sample above. This is a great presentation tool and we'd like to start building many of these for clients.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. We've found JQuery that does similar but the sampel is in Flash or SWF and is really what we wanted to replicate.
Thanks
MSC

Honestly, I don't use Flash. Haven't used it for several years.
Flash isn't user friendly.
Translators & screen readers don't see Flash content.
Search Engines seldom find Flash content as well as HTML content.
Flash isn't supported by iPhone, iPad, iTouch, etc...
Flash had a very good run for a decade or more. But the tide has shifted away from Flash towards HTML5, CSS3 and jQuery which are widely supported in modern web devices.
Nancy O.
Alt-Web Design & Publishing
Web | Graphics | Print | Media Specialists
http://alt-web.com/

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On a simple page with a flash swf embedded, I want to put a
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to speak,
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Adobe articles:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_15523
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_14201
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> On a simple page with a flash swf embedded, I want to
put a 'loading'
> layer to
> show a 'please wait' message. That works fine with any
other objet, but
> with
> the swf underneath, the layer doesn't appear. Is there
something about the
> flash that makes the 'onload' true even though the flash
file hasn't
> loaded?
> Any options to placing a 'please wait' on top of the
flash?
> Thanks!
>

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New to flash, swf loaded while changing size

i'm trying to create a button that will replace the current
swf with another and i want the size to change between the various
sizes of each page. i'm currently using the following code in the
action inspector:
on(release){loadMovieNum("myfilename.swf",0);
i know there has to be a simple way to do this! a very
grateful thanks to anyone who tries to help!

A: new to flash, swf loaded while changing size

b3autiful_dizaster wrote:
> i'm trying to create a button that will replace the
current swf with another
> and i want the size to change between the various sizes
of each page. i'm
> currently using the following code in the action
inspector:
>
> on(release){loadMovieNum("myfilename.swf",0);
> }
>
> i know there has to be a simple way to do this! a very
grateful thanks to
> anyone who tries to help!
You can't change size dynamically as it is defined by the
object embed tags.
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tho not always best
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