Autoplay movie in hidden layer

My students are creating portfolios in Dreamweaver, and one
student has a rollover, that when clicked, brings up a hidden layer
in which he wants a QT movie to play. He set the autostart
attribute to false, since the movie was playing when the page
loaded, but now he can't get it to autoplay when the layer loads.
Any suggestions?

Hi Robin,
Except for the sarcasm, I do agree with Alan and Bonnie
- Don't see a hidden layer and the animation plays as soon as
you open the page.
If you try the flash forums, they may have some advanced
action scripting which would maybe let you achieve what you want -
the movie should play only when the layer is visible.
In my opinion, some user interaction or external trigger
would be required with the flash movie (not the layer/html content)
to trigger a change - make the movie stop or make it play.
A suggestion for you-
You need to apply the fix for active content so the flash
movie doesn't show an alert "click to activate and use this
control". Incase you're using dreamweaver8, if you update to 8.0.2,
the fix comes with the update. The update is available on the Adobe
site.
If you have an earlier version ths site linked below may
help:
http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/

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