Ebedded Flex app does not play automatically

Question

I have a flex app that is embedded in a web page.
When the page loads for the first time the app does not run
automatically but is in "loop" mode.
In order to embed the application in the html page we have
copied the html and javascript files that the Flex builder
generates :
AC_OETags.js, history.htm, history.js etc.
This only happens the first time the page is loaded,
subsequently it loads and plays automatically.
I would be grateful is anyone has some insight here.

Answer 1

Thanks for your answer, we found a similar workaround.
We did the following:
1) disable automatic starting of the SWF in the script that
created the plugin by adding these parameters:
"play", "false",
"loop", "false",
2) adding some own javascript to the template-html:
var isMovieLoaded = false;
function setIsMovieLoaded(){
isMovieLoaded = true;
function start(id) {
var swf = document.getElementById(id);
if (swf) {
swf.Play();
function playMovie(){
if( !isMovieLoaded ){
start( "${application}" );
window.setTimeout("playMovie()", 3000);
3) calling setIsMovieLoaded() via ExternalInterface from the
loaded application when initializing:
if (ExternalInterface.available)
ExternalInterface.call("setIsMovieLoaded");
This way when the application loads and plays correctly, the
delayed call to playMovie in the html-template does nothing,
because the flag isMovieLoaded was already set by the application.
If that is not the case, the movie is explicitly startet via
the start function.
Thanky anyway :-)