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June 30, 2001 Detecting a Flash Movie's URL Tips: June 2001
Yehuda Shiran, Ph.D.
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In some of your applications you may need to use Flash movies and JavaScript directly, without any prepackaged APIs such as FlashSound JavaScript API. You will enjoy more features, methods, and properties, but you'll have to take care of all the tiny details that are taken for granted when using FlashSound API, for example.
One of the "tiny" details is embedding the Flash object. The JavaScript file TGetProperty() Flash method to get attributes of the Flash movie. One of the properties is URL. You may get this property, but you cannot set it. The URL property designates the location of the SWF file. You get a Flash property like this:
The URL property is no. 15, so you get its value by going:
Play the following movie by clicking the Play link. Get the URL of the movie by clicking the Get URL link. Of course, you can get the movie's URL without playing it first:
Here is the source code:
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