One of these tiny tasks is creating a SWF object. This JavaScript object is associated with the embedded SWF, and supports the wealth of properties and methods that SWFs sport. The object is defined as follows:

mySoundObj = window.document.swfID

  document.writeln(
   '<OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"' +
   'codebase="http://active.macromedia.com/flash2/cabs/swflash.cab#version=4,0,0,0"' +
   'ID="sonify" WIDTH=1 HEIGHT=1>' +
   '<PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="' + srcURL + '">' +
   '<PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=low>' +
   '<PARAM NAME=wmode VALUE=transparent>'+
   '<PARAM NAME=bgcolor VALUE=' + bgcolor + '>' +
     '<EMBED swLiveConnect="true" NAME="sonify"' +
      'src="' + srcURL + '"' +
      'quality=low' +
      'wmode=transparent' +
      'bgcolor=' + bgcolor +
      'WIDTH=1 HEIGHT=2' +
      'TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash"'+
      'PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash">' +
     '</EMBED>' +
   '</OBJECT>'
   );
}

Creating the object in this case would be straight forward:

mySoundObj = window.document.sonify

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