Adding link to Flash movie to HTML Help

I have to output the same help in both CHM and WebHelp, and I
have to include a Flash movie (SWF) in both versions. The only way
I've found to get a link to the Flash movie to work in the compiled
CHM is to add all the Flash files to the project as "baggage" and
then insert the link. Compiled CHM then includes the Flash files.
Is this the recommended approach? Is there an easier way?
Thanks,
mel

Hi mel and welcome to our community
Indeed, adding to baggage will not hurt a thing and is
recommended. I recently published a second article dealing with
Flash content and RoboHelp that you may find useful. You may view
it by
clicking
here
Cheers... Rick

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Hi Raymond,
To respond to your question:
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VIEW SITE HERE
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to click once on the movie itself before you can scroll over and
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How can I fix these problems? Any help is much appreciated.

> 1. The drop down menus from my navigation bar fall
behind the flash
> movie.
> I've tried working with layers, but I can't figure out
how to get the
> flash
> movie to fall behind.
All Active content on a page will always rise to the top, so
to speak,
including Flash, certain form elements, Java applets, and
Active X controls.
This means that each of these will poke through layers. There
is not a good
cross-browser/platform reliable way to solve this issue, but
if you can be
confident in your visitors using IE 5+ or NN6+, then you can
use the Flash
wmode parameter (however, Safari does not support this
properly!).
Adobe articles:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_15523
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_14201
> 2. The flash movie contains interactive content, but you
have to click
> once
> on the movie itself before you can scroll over and see
the interactive
> parts.
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several
years ago to their browser, regarding how Active Content
(Flash, Quicktime
etc)
is handled, after losing a high profile court case.
http://blog.deconcept.com/2005/12/15/internet-explorer-eolas-changes-and-the-flash-plugin/
Background:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eolas
See also
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/activecontent/
If you're running Dreamweaver 8.0.2/CS3, the fix is already
built into DW's
interface.
If not, try
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>see
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>
>
http://barney.gonzaga.edu/~outdoors
>
> problems:
>
> 1. The drop down menus from my navigation bar fall
behind the flash
> movie.
> I've tried working with layers, but I can't figure out
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> flash
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>
> 2. The flash movie contains interactive content, but you
have to click
> once
> on the movie itself before you can scroll over and see
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>
> How can I fix these problems? Any help is much
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"Sabretooth Sloth" <[email protected]> wrote
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> Whenever I publish a movie in HTML, it always appears in
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>
>

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"Bizmarck27" <[email protected]> wrote in
message news:e4ij6q$i34$[email protected]..
>I created 5 "movies" in Captivate and published as .swf
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>
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thanks for watching.........

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AA audio file
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Greetings Everyone!
I'm sincerely hoping that someone has the answer for me. I'm
a newbie, but trying so very hard to understand... :) I've read
books, pages & pages of this forum, 'net searches - I haven't
found a complete answer to my challenge so far - thanks in advance
for any help you can give...
Here's where things are:
1) I've created a series of swf Flash movies that loop (at a
particular size so they can play inside of an html table cell)
2) I've created html buttons in another cell
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1) Like a swap file in HTML (where you click a button and an
image changes elsewhere on the page, click another button, and that
image swaps to a different image file)
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...IN MY HTML code...
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clicked.
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2. I gather I need to create an IF statement so that
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----->Question:
Where should the IF statement be and
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Admittedly I don't know Action Script 3 very well.
if myMovie is equal to "activeMovie1"
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1 Button.)
else if myMovie is equal to "activeMovie2"
then load a movie. ((This movie will be a movie related to
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taking the time to read it!!

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