Flash animation in hidden layer

I have created a page with a hidden layer which contains a
Flash animation. The Flash animation plays and in the end it should
call another page which it does. As long as the layer is hidden it
should do nothing but when the layer becomes visible it should play
it's content and get the page. This works fine in IE but in Firefox
the animation starts playing immediately and gets the page even
though it's hidden. Can anyone help me out here?
Thanks in advance!
Robin Meeuwsen

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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> a short time. My question is,
>
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am having trouble
> making a link to another page of the site out of the
flash animation once
> it's
> done. I can't find a option for that anywhere, I was
able to link the
> table in
> which the animation sits but it does nothing. For now i
just have the word
> ENTER below the animation so the rest of the site can be
viewed.
>
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