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Changing Movieclip frames from HTML

I'd like to be able to control which frame my movie clip is on based on the onmouseover and onmouseout functions of an href. Can this be done?

Thank you.

Ch@rlie

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crazycharlie

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I have the id and name attributes set on the object and embed tags (id="targetMovie", name="targetMovie") and have the javascript called from an external .js file. The javascript looks like this:

function FlashMethod(clip, frame)
{
var IE = navigator.appName.indexOf("Microsoft") != -1;
var movie = IE ? window.targetMovie : window.document.targetMovie;
movie.TGotoFrame(clip, frame - 1);
}

This is what I have in the HTML portion:

<a href="javascript: void(0);" onmouseover="FlashMethod('_root.MovieClip','2');" onmouseout="FlashMethod('_root.MovieClip','1');" onfocus="this.blur();"><img src="../../images/information.gif" alt="Definition" width="12" height="12" border="0" /></a>

I don't get any errors, but for some reason, it's not incrementing the .swf.

Ch@rlie

crazycharlie

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Actually, I just figured it out. Since I'm only progressing the frames in _root, that's what I used for the clip variable call.

Thank you!

Ch@rlie

crazycharlie

ASKER

negatyve,

This isn't working in IE on the Mac. Do you know of a workaround for that?

Thanks.

Ch@rlie

negatyve

>Since I'm only progressing the frames in _root, that's what I used for the clip variable call.

perfect!

>This isn't working in IE on the Mac. Do you know of a workaround for that?

actually, nothing. it's a known and unsolved issue: http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/browser_support_matrix.htm

crazycharlie

ASKER

Okay.. I thought it might have been, but wanted to be sure anyway.

I appreciate all the help and quick responses.

All the best,

Ch@rlie

negatyve

>All the best,

to you..

cheers!

nega