SWF banners in DW

I have 2 SWF web banners. I need to place them in a table of
a website make in Dreamweaver. How do make Dreamweaver randomly
select the banners? Or, is this something I command in the .FLA
file? Please be as specific as possible as I only know the basics
of Flash and Dreamweaver. Thanks a lot.
09/13/2007 09:54:16 PM
You could do either of these, in DW you would write a
Javascript method to choose one or the other at random. However you
could also do this with a loader FLA. Since this is a Flash forum
let's look at that route.
Create a new FLA file the size of your banners. you'd create
an empty MC, and use it to load one or the other swf files at
random. Then you would place all the files in the same directory
and embed the 'loader' SWF file in the DW page.
The code for the loader SWF would look something like this:
Attach Code
stop();
var bArray = ['banner1.swf', 'banner2.swf'];
var mc:MovieClip = this.createEmptyMovieClip('mc', 0);
var choice = Math.round(Math.random()*(bArray.length-1));
mc.loadMovie(bArray[choice]);
cbeech
09/17/2007 11:09:49 AM
Thanks. This works when i preview it locally, but it doesn't
work when i put all the files on the server. the banner area shows
up blank. I embeded the 'loader' FLA in the DW file, then put the
other 2 banner files in the same directory on the server. what am i
missing?

editable region shuld be used carefully :| , u have to creat editable rigion for ur tag which will be used rarely, like header (flash , logo), footer content( those content will not be chaned in all paes), menu bar,. so u will have to fix it in editable region by giving them name,, and after puting editable region creat one template page, so when u will creat new html page, go to new >> u will be asked a dialoug, so go to tamplete tag, and select ur created template, and then change only uneditable region content,, if u wnt to edit ur editable content , go to template page, and change it, ur changes will be taken place in all related pages..
best
jvmonteiro wrote:
Hi Mahendra, thanks for yr. help but I'm not quite sure I follow u when u refer the 'editable region' option...Do u mean like I should create a template from the homepage and then change only main content? Can you pls elaborate a little further on that?
Thanks
JV

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