Possible or not? To load an html page within a Flash Movie. 4

[garymgordon]

Let me explain.

I want to open a flash movie. Let's say the movie window is 800 by 600 px.

Then maybe in an area that would be either something like 600 by 400 px or maybe even the size of the whole flash movie, ... I want to DROP IN an html page. This should dynamically pull in an html page from a URL.

So, let's say, I had the Flash movie and wanted to load into it

http://www.msn.com

. I would want it to dynamically pull in the current url to msn.com and place it within the flash page.

I don't want to create a link within the flash movie that would open up another window with the page. I want the html page to open WITHIN the current flash movie. (As if .. the flash movie was a frameset ... and one of the frames - was an html page.

Can this be done?

How?

I would greatly appreciate some help by a FLASH guru.

Thanks,
Gary
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[wangbar]

You can get some of the way there but no all of the way there !

If you place a dynamic text box (a big multi-line one) on your stage you can load it with HTML text - just check the box for this in the "Text Options" panel. There are certain things that you won't be able to load in (graphics for one) but things like text formatting etc. are available.

 

[defrex]

hhmmmm, thats a good question. i was thinking maby a dhtml layer on top of the swf, but i think i read somware that swf files always go ontop, but you should be able to tell it not to. try this:

put both the flash file and the html part in div tags like so:

<div style=&quot;top:***;left:***;x-index:1;position:absolute&quot;>
flash file here
</div>
<div style=&quot;top:***;left:***;x-index:2;position:absolute&quot;>
<iframe src=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;***&quot; height=&quot;***&quot;></iframe>
</div>

oviously you'll need to defign the top and left properties to whatever they need to be to have the html file perfectly over the flash file, also you'll need to defign the size of the iframe to fit too. oh, and i just resently found out that iframe only works for IE, but its the only way i can think to get msn.com there
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[garymgordon]

So ... there's really no way to kind of embed an html page (by linking a URL) to position the page within the flash movie??



Please think. Think!! Is there any way??

By the way, ... thanks!

Gary
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[WhiteTiger]

Ok a SLIGHT workaround for this, but I'm almost positive you could set the background to transparent, then load an Iframe with dynamic positionining underneith...that way it would show through, and you could put any type of HTML you wanted, also if need be, you could do document.write's to the Iframe and do some of the sweet dynamic HTML stuff or something...any comments/suggestions on my idea?

Then you'd have to do something like
document.all(&quot;iframename&quot.src = &quot;whatever&quot;

it's javascript, so it'll work with flash... Regards,
Anthny
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[garymgordon]

Thanks. Gary M. Gordon, LLC
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[baad]

hie
html over flash? no'p dont think so..
check this out:

http://www.webreference.com/dhtml/diner/seethru/index.html

Victor

 

[garymgordon]

I guess I was hoping there was a way ... from within flash .. to load a URL into a window (of flash) .. kind of like a frame.

No other thoughts or ideas on how to do this?

Gary Gary M. Gordon, LLC
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Certified Web Developer ::
Application Programmer

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