Adding a Flash movie to your page in Java

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To add a Flash movie (SWF) to a Web page, follow these steps: 1 Place your cursor where you want the Flash movie to appear on your Web page 2 Choose Insert Media Flash You can also click the Media button on the Common tab of the Insert bar and select Flash from its drop-down list The Select File dialog box opens 3 Select the Flash movie file you want to insert on the page and click OK Note: If you enabled Accessibility options in Preferences, the Object Tag Accessibility Attributes dialog box appears prompting you to add a

Inserting Flash Movies (SWFs)

title, access (shortcut) key, and tab index number to the SWF file Enter those attributes and click OK; click Cancel to add the SWF file without the Accessibility attributes Dreamweaver embeds the movie with all the Flash HTML code needed for the movie to play in most major browsers by including the <embed> tag for Netscape Navigator plug-ins and the <object> tag for Microsoft ActiveX controls The code, as in the following example, shows how a SWF file called flashsampleswf would be embedded on a page:

<object classid= clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000 codebase= http://downloadmacromediacom/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflashca b#version=6,0,29,0 width= 320 height= 240 accesskey= x tabindex= 1 title= Flash Sample > <param name= movie value= flashsampleswf /> <param name= quality value= high /> <embed src= flashsampleswf quality= high pluginspage= http://wwwmacromediacom/go/getflashplayer type= application/x-shockwave-flash width= 320 height= 240 ></embed> </object>

Dreamweaver displays the embedded Flash movie on the page in Design view as a grey box (see Figure 5-1) The Document window doesn t automatically preview the Flash movie

Inserting Flash Movies (SWFs)

To preview the Flash movie, select the Flash movie and do one of the following: Click the Play button in the Properties inspector Click Stop to stop the preview Press F12 to preview the movie in a browser window

After inserting the movie onto the page, select the Flash placeholder in Design view and use the Properties inspector to set the movie attributes If you don t see all the movie properties, click the expander arrow in the bottom-right corner of the Properties inspector Flash ID/Name: Input the movie ID or name Loop: If you check this option, your embedded movie plays continuously; leave it unchecked, and your movie plays once Autoplay: Plays the movie automatically when the page loads in a browser window W and H: Set the size of the movie in pixels V Space and H Space: Set white space in pixels above and below, and on both sides, left and right, of the movie File: Specifies the path of the Flash swf file Browse for and select the file using the folder button or type the path Quality: This setting deals with anti-aliasing, or smoothing, of the movie during playback The higher the setting, the smoother the movie, but also the potentially slower the movie displays By contrast, low settings load faster but look less crisp Auto Low and High options improve appearance or emphasize quality, respectively Scale: Determines how the movie fits into the pixel sizes displayed in the W and H text boxes: Default (Show all): The entire movie displays at 100 percent No Border: Maintains the original movie dimension aspect ratio but fits the movie, without borders, into the sizes set in the W and H text boxes, which means that any parts of the movie that extend beyond the W and H settings are cut off Exact Fit: Squishes the movie into the specified dimensions, regardless of the original size of the movie Align: Sets the alignment of the movie relative to the page

Bg Color: Adds a background color behind the movie This color displays only if and when the movie is not playing Edit: Updates FLA files when Flash is loaded on the same computer If no Flash application is detected, this button is disabled Reset Size: Reverts a file to its original movie size Play/Stop: Starts and stops movie previews within Design view Parameters: Opens a dialog box where you can enter more parameters for the movie if the movie has been created to accept these parameters Class: Applies CSS to a movie, such as styles with border or alignment attributes