Target Flash from HTML

I want to be able to click and HTML Link such as:
<a href="gotoFrame" target="flashID">TEXT</a>
And have the Flash read that you clicked the link and then go to the specified place depnending on the HREF.
Basically, I just need to know how to get Flash to read that you clicked the HTML Link.

Your HTML link can call a JavaScript function that calls a function in Flash. Read up ExternalInterface class.

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Affecting Flash from HTML

Hello, I'm trying to affect my flash movie from HTML. For
example, if I have a google adsense module, and I want to trigger
something in flash each time that link is hit, how would I go about
doing that?
Any help would be much appreciated!

You would have to use a frame.

Control Flash from HTML (k)

I have a button in HTML that I want to use to control the
flash on the
page it sits on.
When the button is rolled over, I want to pass a variable to
the Flash
movie so that something happens.
How can I do this in Dreamweaver?
-Kirk

It's a stupid way of doing it, but I got it to work using the
FSCommand.
I send the user to a frame in the Flash movie. That frame has
the
variable set to the "On" state. I then have them go to
another frame for
the "Off" state.
-Kirk
W. Kirk Lutz wrote:
> I know that it would be easier. But I have a very tall
flash file of a
> floorplan. I have a legend for the floorplan that I want
to float in a
> layer so that when someone scrolls down the page, the
legend follows. I
> Can make a scroller in flash, but would prefer to try
and control Flash
> via HTML.
>
> I know you can pass a variable in HTML to flash, but if
it has to reload
> the page each time the user will be throwing their
machine out the window.
>
> Any way to control Flash?
>
> I've tried to send the user to a frame in Flash via the
FSCommand, but
> it doesn't seem to work. I have two scenes in my flash
file. A loading
> scene and the main scene. The FSCommand jumps me to the
frame in the
> loading Scene.
>
> -Kirk
>
>
> -->dan mode wrote:
>> It would be much easier to do the rollover button in
Flash.
>> Otherwise, you need a server side language that
would populate a
>> variable in the embedded swf code.
>>
>>

Pass image name and path to flash from html

Hello Flash Forum,
I would like to use Flash to display a larger image in an
HTML page that opens on top of a window with
thumbnail images. The thumbnail page will be a php page. If
the user clicks the thumbnail, I would like to open a swf that
diplays the larger image. I would like to pass the path and name of
the image to display to my swf. It would open a browser page (or
just a swf file) over the thumbnail page. The use could then close
the larger image display, and click another thumbnail, etc.
How could I do this? I have a swf file that will display the
image, but I would like to pass the image name from outside the swf
file.
Thanks for any tips,
eholz1

Hello jpsoul,
Thanks for the suggestion. I did see some info on the query
string aspect. I will take a look at the JavaScript
external.ExternalInterface class as well.
Thanks again,
eholz1

Separate Flash from HTML

Hi there,
I've gotten a question actually and I haven't found any
answer yet.
How can I put a Flash element (swf) like a "loop" for example
and make it separate from the rest of HTML pages, so this "loop"
can be played continuously while the visitor and browsing the pages
and the Loop don't stop or change and doesn't effect by moving from
one page to another?!
I've tried many scripts and tried to make a layer above the
tables but nothing changed, the loop started every time by clicking
a new page!
Please help me.
thanks for your time.
Mo!

You would have to use a frame.

Send variable to Flash from HTML link

Does anyone know if it's possible to include a variable in an
html link <a> tag that can set a variable in Flash. I have
used JavaScript to do this in the past but would prefer not to on
this site. I also would prefer not have to use a server side script
or xml, as all I want to do is set multiple links on one html page
to open the same Flash movie on another html page, but make it go
to a particular frame or load a particular external swf based on
the link that was clicked. Thanks, JD

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
to load them in
> or will they automatically be passed to the variable on
the _root level of
> the SWF file? Thanks for your quick reply, JD

Passing parameters to Flash from HTML or JavaScript

Hi. How do I pass paramaters to a Flash movie without using
the "../name.swf?param=value" syntax. I have a Flash menu that
jumps to a certain keyframe depending on the value specified inline
with the .swf address, which corresponds to the page being viewed.
The only problem is that, when another page is loaded, the menu
flickers and reloads because it's not cached: the browser thinks
it's another file when in fact it's just a different address
telling it where to go in the movie to update the menu for the
current page.
Any ideas how to do this with either HTML or JavaScript? Help
and suggestions are truly appreciated!

The other method for doing this is using the Flashvars param.
You can read about it in the LiveDocs here:
http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/8/main/00001206.html
Don't know if it will solve your problem, but it is the other
of the two main ways of passing in variables.
Good luck!

How to pass text from flash to html?

how to pass text from flash to html?

This is a wonderful sample i found online.
pls run using a server so that it can display properly
http://active.tutsplus.com/tutorials/actionscript/flash-html-javascript-externalinterface/

Best way to pass vars from html into flash?

I've read a variety of pages that describe how to pass a variable into a flash movie (AS3, player = v9) from the html in which it is embedded. This page describes AS3 but neglects to mention what to do with the object and embed tags in the noscript section. Furthermore, I'm not sure the javascript I see generated in my page looks like the example there (the js in my page doesn't check AC_FL_RunContenta against zero). This page is quite long and appears to deal mostly with AS1 and AS2 approaches which I have used before and neglects entirely the newish javascript approach which appears to be used to embed flash these days (i.e., the javascript function AC_FL_RunContent).
I was wondering if someone could spell out the proper way to pass in a variable from HTML so that flash can see it in such a way that works even if javascript is disabled, in all browsers, etc., etc.
I've attached the HTML generated by the Flash IDE to this topic. Any help would be much appreciated.

You'll have to search for that concise and thorough list of steps or figure it out using the information you now have, which is sufficient to get it done. It's not that hard--add the FlashVars in the embedding code in the three places and use the various examples you have links to to add the code in the Flash file to access and use the FlashVars.
Your Flash will be embedded in a web page depending on the visitors settings... if they allow javascript then the javascript portion will be used. If they don't, then either the object or embed sections will be used depending on their browser.
As far as javascript changes go, don't sweat 'em until you have a problem... use whatever code your Flash-created html page creates to embed the file in the page.

Send data from html to flash action script

Hi,
I would like my flash to act differently depending on what
html page it is on. Can I send information from html code to action
script?

Hi,
Yes you can, by using FLASHVARS. Refer the attached code for
example. Also you can use Javascript setVariable method of Flash
object to set values in between i.e. after the page has loaded, as
in case of FLASHVARS these are sent to flash just at the begining
i.e. once SWF loads. In the attached exmple i've sent 2 variables
to Flash one is 'username' and other is 'userId', thse will be
fetched inside flash movie as _root.username and _root.userId.
Note: I've added flashvars as PARAM and also as an attribute
for EMBED tag (used by Mozilla, NS etc)
Hope this helps.
Thanks,
Sumeet

How do I make my banner flash from one photograph to another?

Good day.
I am using Dreamweaver CS5.
My banner of 968px X 280px is a JPG image (photograph) with a logo.
I would like to learn how to make the banner photograph flash from one photograph to another.
Can anyone help me with how to do this or guide me to where I can find a tutorial on this?
Can this be done in Dreamweaver with code, or do I have to do this in another application first?
I have Flash, Fireworks and Photoshop.
I will appreciate help.

Leah Adams wrote:
Hi. Thanks!
Yes, that is what I am looking for, if I can keep the same dimensions of my banner.
Will jQuery allow me to specify my own dimensions?
It's not jquery that determines the dimensions of your container for your images, you do. The dimensions can be any size. jquery is just a script which alternates the images within the container:
Go to the link below and look at the source code.
http://jquery.malsup.com/cycle/basic.html
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<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.5/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://cloud.github.com/downloads/malsup/cycle/jquery.cycle.all.latest.js"></script>
plus you'll need to include this small snippet in the 'head' section of the page. Change .slideshow to the class name of your container.
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$(document).ready(function() {
$('.slideshow').cycle({
fx: 'fade' // choose your transition type, ex: fade, scrollUp, shuffle, etc...
</script>

Problem to extract text from HTML document

I have to extract some text from HTML file to my database. (about 1000 files)
The HTML files are get from ACM Digital Library. http://portal.acm.org/dl.cfm
The HTML page is about the information of a paper. I only want to get the text of "Title" "Abstract" "Classification" "Keywords"
The Problem is that I can't find any patten to parser the html files"
EX: I need to get the Classification = "Theory of Computation","ANALYSIS OF ALGORITHMS AND PROBLEM COMPLEXITY","Numerical Algorithms and Problem","Mathematics of Computing","NUMERICAL ANALYSIS"......etc .
The section code about "Classification" is below.
Please give any idea to do this, or how to find patten to extract text from this.
<div class="indterms"><a href="#CIT"><img name="top" src=
"img/arrowu.gif" hspace="10" border="0" /></a><a name="IndexTerms">INDEX TERMS</a>
<a name=
"GenTerms">Primary Classification:</a> 
� F. <a href=
"results.cfm?query=CCS%3AF%2E%2A&coll=ACM&dl=ACM&CFID=22820732&CFTOKEN=38147335"
target="_self">Theory of Computation</a> 
� <img src="img/tree.gif" border="0" height="20" width=
"20" /> F.2 <a href=
"results.cfm?query=CCS%3A%22F%2E2%22&coll=ACM&dl=ACM&CFID=22820732&CFTOKEN=38147335"
target="_self">ANALYSIS OF ALGORITHMS AND PROBLEM
COMPLEXITY</a> 
� � � <img src="img/tree.gif" border="0" height=
"20" width="20" /> F.2.1 <a href=
"results.cfm?query=CCS%3A%22F%2E2%2E1%22&coll=ACM&dl=ACM&CFID=22820732&CFTOKEN=38147335"
target="_self">Numerical Algorithms and Problems</a> 

<a name=
"GenTerms">Additional�Classification:</a> 
� G. <a href=
"results.cfm?query=CCS%3AG%2E%2A&coll=ACM&dl=ACM&CFID=22820732&CFTOKEN=38147335"
target="_self">Mathematics of Computing</a> 
� <img src="img/tree.gif" border="0" height="20" width=
"20" /> G.1 <a href=
"results.cfm?query=CCS%3A%22G%2E1%22&coll=ACM&dl=ACM&CFID=22820732&CFTOKEN=38147335"
target="_self">NUMERICAL ANALYSIS</a> 
� � � <img src="img/tree.gif" border="0" height=
"20" width="20" /> G.1.6 <a href=
"results.cfm?query=CCS%3A%22G%2E1%2E6%22&coll=ACM&dl=ACM&CFID=22820732&CFTOKEN=38147335"
target="_self">Optimization</a> 
� � � � � <img src="img/tree.gif" border=
"0" height="20" width="20" /> Subjects: <a href=
"results.cfm?query=CCS%3A%22Linear%20programming%22&coll=ACM&dl=ACM&CFID=22820732&CFTOKEN=38147335"
target="_self">Linear programming</a> 

 
<a name=
"GenTerms">General Terms:</a> 
<a href=
"results.cfm?query=genterm%3A%22Algorithms%22&coll=ACM&dl=ACM&CFID=22820732&CFTOKEN=38147335"
target="_self">Algorithms</a>, <a href=
"results.cfm?query=genterm%3A%22Theory%22&coll=ACM&dl=ACM&CFID=22820732&CFTOKEN=38147335"
target="_self">Theory</a>
 
<a name=
"Keywords">Keywords:</a> 
<a href=
"results.cfm?query=keyword%3A%22Simplex%20method%22&coll=ACM&dl=ACM&CFID=22820732&CFTOKEN=38147335"
target="_self">Simplex method</a>, <a href=
"results.cfm?query=keyword%3A%22complexity%22&coll=ACM&dl=ACM&CFID=22820732&CFTOKEN=38147335"
target="_self">complexity</a>, <a href=
"results.cfm?query=keyword%3A%22perturbation%22&coll=ACM&dl=ACM&CFID=22820732&CFTOKEN=38147335"
target="_self">perturbation</a>, <a href=
"results.cfm?query=keyword%3A%22smoothed%20analysis%22&coll=ACM&dl=ACM&CFID=22820732&CFTOKEN=38147335"
target="_self">smoothed analysis</a>
</div>

One approach is to download Htmlparser from sourceforge
http://htmlparser.sourceforge.net/ and write the rules to match title, abstract etc.
Another approach is to write your own parser that extract only title, abstract etc.
1. tokenize the html file. --> convert html into tokens (tag and value)
2. write a simple parser to extract certain information
find out about the pattern of text you want to extract. For instance "<class "abstract">.
then writing a rule for extracting abstract such as
if (tag is abstract ) then extract abstract text
apply the same concept for other tags
Attached is the sample parser that was used to extract title and abstract from acm html files. Please modify to include keyword and other fields.
good luck
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
public class ACMHTMLParser
 private String m_filename;
 private URLLexicalAnalyzer lexical;
 List urls = new ArrayList();
 public ACMHTMLParser(String filename)
 super();
 m_filename = filename;
 * parses only title and abstract
 public void parse() throws Exception
 lexical = new URLLexicalAnalyzer(m_filename);
 String word = lexical.getNextWord();
 boolean isabstract = false;
 while (null != word)
 if (isTag(word))
 if (isTitle(word))
 System.out.println("TITLE: " + lexical.getNextWord());
 else if (isAbstract(word) && !isabstract)
 parseAbstract();
 isabstract = true;
 word = lexical.getNextWord();
 lexical.close();
 public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception
 ACMHTMLParser parser = new ACMHTMLParser("./acm_html.html");
 parser.parse();
 public static boolean isTag(String word)
 return ( word.startsWith("<") && word.endsWith(">"));
 public static boolean isTitle(String word)
 return ( "<title>".equals(word));
 //please modify according to the html source
 public static boolean isAbstract(String word)
 return ( "".equals(word));
 private void parseAbstract() throws Exception
 while (true)
 String abs = lexical.getNextWord();
 if (!isTag(abs))
 System.out.println(abs);
 break;
 class URLLexicalAnalyzer
 private BufferedReader m_reader;
 private boolean isTag;
 public URLLexicalAnalyzer(String filename)
 try
 m_reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(filename));
 catch (IOException io)
 System.out.println("ERROR, file not found " + filename);
 System.exit(1);
 public URLLexicalAnalyzer(InputStream in)
 m_reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in));
 public void close()
 try {
 if (null != m_reader) m_reader.close();
 catch (IOException ignored) {}
 public String getNextWord() throws IOException
 int c = m_reader.read();
 if (-1 == c) return null;
 if (Character.isWhitespace((char)c))
 return getNextWord();
 if ('<' == c || isTag)
 return scanTag(c);
 else
 return scanValue(c);
 private String scanTag(final int c)
 throws IOException
 StringBuffer result = new StringBuffer();
 if ('<' != c) result.append('<');
 result.append((char)c);
 int ch = -1;
 while (true)
 ch = m_reader.read();
 if (-1 == ch) throw new IllegalArgumentException("un-terminate tag");
 if ('>' == ch)
 isTag = false;
 break;
 result.append((char)ch);
 result.append((char)ch);
 return result.toString();
 private String scanValue(final int c) throws IOException
 StringBuffer result = new StringBuffer();
 result.append((char)c);
 int ch = -1;
 while (true)
 ch = m_reader.read();
 if (-1 == ch) throw new IllegalArgumentException("un-terminate value");
 if ('<' == ch)
 isTag = true;
 break;
 result.append((char)ch);
 return result.toString();
}

Video file path from HTML - Urgent

 Hi
 I have created a simple imported video in actionscript 3.0 and it works fine when I play it. Since I am a newbie, can anyone guide me
 how do I specify the filepath from HTML, e.g. in the HTML how can i specify <param name="filepath" value="videoname.flv" />. If anyone has
 any link to a tutorial, it would be great.
 Thanks

Use FlashVars and read them in LoaderInfo:
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/164/tn_16417.html
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/display/LoaderInf o.html

XMII Login from Html page

Hi,
how can we login in xMII from Html page? for example, if i give username and password in HTML page. that need to directly login in xMII? how can it do?
- senthil

Jeremy,
When I use the following URL to open a specific page, it works.
http://server/Lighthammer/Login.jsp?IllumLoginName=accountname&IllumLoginPassword=accountpassword&session=true&target=/Test/report.irpt
Question:
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Cannot export Financial Report from HTML view to Query Ready Mode

Hi,
I am opening Hyperion Financial Reports in Workspace in HTML mode. On the bottom right of the report, when I click on "Export in Query Ready Mode", the report does not get transported to excel. Rather, a message flashes for a split-second and disappears. The message is "The address is not valid". Can anyone please advise as to what should I do to get the report in excel? I did notice that there is also File->Export->Excel->Fully Formatted Grids & Texts, but we want to get it in Query Ready Mode.
Version is 11.1.1.3. Thanks for any suggestions.
ABG

We have resolved this issue. The problem was that Smart View installation/configuration was not complete on the machine which I used to launch report into Query Ready Mode. Once Smart View was fixed, we were able to convert report from HTML view to Query Ready Mode.
ABG

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