Embedding SWF in a text field

Question

Hi, New user to Flash here with a problem embedding .SWF
files. I have already existing SWF files that I have called
historically from HTML using <object> to embed the object and
<param name= value=> also to pass it information. The SWF
movie I need to embed basically builds a graph and takes its data
from the location you supply it in <param name= value=>
field. This code is not mine and I can't alter it.
What I want to do is construct a flash version of my site and
embed these graphs within a flash textfield. I have been able to
successfully embed a test SWF file using <img> tags on a text
field ---> but here is my question. How do I support the
<param name= value=> functionality I got when I called these
graphs from HTML using <object>?
I hope that's clear? Any help at all is greatly appreciated.
Tom

Answer 1

Tom,
> What I want to do is construct a flash version of my
site
> and embed these graphs within a flash textfield.
That's a really interesting approach. At first, I didn't
understand
what you were aiming for, but it sounds to me like you're
tying to use HTML
inside a Flash text field -- which is doable, to some extent
-- and embed an
external SWF in that HTML ... all within Flash.
> I have been able to successfully embed a test SWF file
> using <img> tags on a text field --->
That does work, but it's about the closest you'll get, I'm
afraid. It's
only happenstance that Flash's very narrow (and somewhat
unique) version of
HTML accepts SWFs in an <img> tag.
> but here is my question. How do I support the <param
name=
> value=> functionality I got when I called these
graphs from
> HTML using <object>?
Flash only supports a very limited subset of the HTML
language. You can
see the full list of supported tags by searching the phrase
"supported tags"
in the documentation (specifically, the Learning ActionScript
2.0 in Flash
book). For better or worse, <object>, <param>,
and <embed> are simply not
in that list.
> Any help at all is greatly appreciated.
Your only choice is to use one of the more traditional
methods of
loading external SWFs, such as loadMovie(),
MovieClip.loadMovie(), or the
MovieClipLoader class. Once your external SWF is loaded, you
may "feed" it
variables that should be detectable by the ActionScript
inside the loaded
SWF.
David
stiller (at) quip (dot) net
Dev essays:
http://www.quip.net/blog/
"Luck is the residue of good design."