Flash to HTML Communication

Hi everyone.
Project
I’m helping develop in Flash CS3 an online soft skills
training that involves students viewing a short video than
answering a multiple choice question. After viewing several videos
and answering the related questions the student is given on
overview of how they did in a test summary page.
Delivery
Plan is to have each video and questions in a single Flash
file embedded in an html file. The end test summary page will be
delivered in html.
Question
What I’d like to know is how can I get the flash
video/question pages to communicate the test results to the end
summary page.
I’m not much good at actionscripting, therefore any
help would be much appreciated.
Also, is there anyway of converting a swf file back to a
flash file, (fla)?
Thanks.
Michael

you'll need to create a dynamic html page if you're
presenting a page that will use data from flash in its display.
flash can't do that.
flash can communicate with server-side programs that can
create your html page.
converting swfs to flas can be done by de-compiling the swfs.
there are several commercial decompilers. i don't know if any of
them can handle as3, though.

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> I have been trying to embed a flash swf document in a
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>
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I think KGLAD was correct in the beginning, your embed tag in the HTML is incomplete.
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>>
>>

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I appreciate really your responses and help.
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> i am trying to make a website that uses flash and html
at the same time i mean
> only the menu is flash and the rest is html, the menu
and all other parts are
> well put in table and rows, and cols but the problem is
that i need the button
> in the menu(flash) to load dynamicly the content into
the page and not reload
> the whole stuff(including the flash menu )
> thanks for your time
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fixm wrote:
> I have a Flash movie (MX 2004) that tests perfectly.
When I try to Publish
> preview in default HTML I dont get anywhere near the
same results as when I
> tested the movie.
>
> I'm trying to preview the movie in IE. Sorry guys, don't
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>
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>

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hi all
could anyone please help me with telling me how to embedd a
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i mean. i require to replace the current top menu swf file with the
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Using a Flash element for your navigation links is a very
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> hi all
>
> could anyone please help me with telling me how to
embedd a flash file in
> an
> HTML file so that the menu swf comes above the HTML
areas in the file. if
> you
> check the links you would know what i mean. i require to
replace the
> current
> top menu swf file with the new flash2.swf file.
flash2.swf file has a
> drop
> down menu which i want to appear above the HTML below.
please let me know
> if
> anyone could help me out. I had done it long time back
and forgot the code
> that
> places the flash above the HTML.
>
> thanks in advance
>
>
> B
http://www.talkingpebbles.com/development/trivium/index.htmlhttp://www.talkingp
> ebbles.com/development/trivium/flash2.swf
>

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errors in page. this script is getting into my html page with
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!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
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What is the location of this page in the folder structure you
show?
> is there something wrong with the source
> path of the script?
If you are getting the wrong path to the linked file, then
your local site
is not properly defined.
> - mainwebsite_html folder
> + assets folder
> flashretreat.html
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> - templates
If the page you show below is in fact flashretreat.html, then
the link that
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the Scripts
folder (I'm assuming you made a type in showing lower case
above) and then
find the required script in that folder -
<script src="../Scripts/AC_RunActiveContent.js"
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> in the preferences window, under code rewriting i
disabled active content
> for
> 1. insert using browser safe scripts &
> 2. convert tags to scripts on file open.
>
> my page works fine now. if i enable this options and the
scripts folder is
> also uploaded my page has errors. is there something
wrong with the
> source
> path of the script? i tried transfering the folder
inside my webpage
> folder
> together with the html pages and assets folder rather
than at the root
> folder
> but still gives me the same error.
>
> - Site - Biomed (C:Biomed)
> - mainwebsite_html folder
> + assets folder
> flashretreat.html
> - scripts folder
> - templates
>
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0
Transitional//EN"
> "
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
> <html xmlns="
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>
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http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#
>
version=7,0,19,0','width','120','height','600','src','assets/retreat07','quality
> ','high','pluginspage','
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> sets/retreat07' ); //end AC code
> </script><noscript><object
> classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
> codebase="
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> rsion=7,0,19,0" width="120" height="600">
> <param name="movie" value="assets/retreat07.swf"
/>
> <param name="quality" value="high" />
> <embed src="assets/retreat07.swf" quality="high"
> pluginspage="
http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"
> type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="120"
height="600"></embed>
> </object></noscript>
> </body>
> </html>
>
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Text
>

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You need to use them in the object and embed tags.
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> Do I need to use Flash Vars in the object and embed code
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