Interact with content loaded in html overlay / acces accelerometer?

Hi,
is it in any way possible to interact with html content loaded in the Web Content overlay?
Or is there a way to acces the accelerometer in indesign?
greetz
Mario

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How do I interact with a loaded swf?

Hi,
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Thanks,
Peter H.

Hey Pete,
The answer that you seek and the simplest one as well will be from the MouseEvent. that you will most likely have applied to your loaded swf.
As long as both swfs are in the same domain, you wont have any issues with security and therefor, the MouseEvent. which bubbles up, will be able to reach your swf file which has loaded it.
You can then write your code in your loaded swf to simply listen to the loadedMovieClip by targeting the contents of navLoader just like this,
navLoader.content.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN,onDown)
protected function onDown(me:MouseEvent){
now providing you have given your two buttons names in your loaded swf, you will be able to perform addition tasks by receiving the name of the target.
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var btnClip:Movie= me.target as MovieClip
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button1 was just a random name in this case .
This will do the trick

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Thanks for good support in web browser world.Directly i come to the question.I have excel sheet where it has 300 hyperlinks as given below(example links 3)My Excel macro is written in such a way that this will open all the link in firefox "new tab " one by one.It was perfect and page was loading in previous versions(i could not remember the exact version but i could say an year before when i used firefox it worked well).Now i am having issues opening 300 new tabs with links.It gets started loading the page but before one page loading gets completed too many new links are opening but the page is not fully loaded at all.When i click the tab for each link and see in the browser the green clour processing round sysmbol keeps on rotating.Can you please look into this issue.
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<sub>edit: removed your mail address from public display, since the only thing it will attract are spam bots. you will be notified per mail once somebody replies to the thread. (philipp)</sub>

Hi Marx,
With this kind of data testing it is helpful to provide context to the issue you are trying to document. This technical information is very useful to the engineers working on the performance of Firefox and I am sure this is the kind of information they would love to see.
Therefore I would like to put you in touch with this team to see what they can do with this information. Talk to the #perf channel in irc and they should be able to put you in the right direction. I am asking currently and see what I can find. Or in the meantime check out the current tab bugs in the Performance component of bugzilla provided in the search below: [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=tab%20performance&list_id=9361049]

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