Placing a movie into scrollpane
I have a scrollpane Scroll1.
I set its contentpath to "movie1"
When run movie1 shows within the scrollpane.
I need to progam a button to replace the contentpath with
"movie2"
I have tried:
_root.Movie1.loadMovie("movie2.swf");
_root.scroll1.loadScrollContent("movie2.swf");
I cannot get it to work. ANyone have a step by step example
please?
Cheers
SteveW
I wrote up a very long explanation of this for indesignsecrets.com.
http://indesignsecrets.com/putting-swfs-into-indesign-documents.php
The bottom line is:
It's a bug on the Mac
Windows users can play those SWFs but the Mac hangs
Adobe is aware of the problem
But if you want an SWF to play on both Mac and Windows, open the PDF in Acrobat Professional and add the SWF there.
You will actually have more control than if you had placed it in InDesign and it played correctly.
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