Loading Swish movie into AutoPlay Media Studio 4.0

[joelle2003]

I'm trying to load a swish 2.0 movie into AutoPlay Media Studio 4.0. I've got it loaded into the autoplay as html, but I want it to open into it's own screen (sort of like a popup window).
Is there a way of saving the swish movie as a popup html and then saving that as a link in AutoPlay?
Or, is there a way of loading it as a swf file in its own window.

Please Help!

[Corey]

Re: Loading Swish movie into AutoPlay Media Studio 4.0

if you radd target="blank" to any HTML link it becomes a pop-up. To control the size, position, etc. of the pop up there are many great pop-up code generators for free on the web at various javascript sites as well as some free handy extensions for Dreamweaver such as "Advanced pop-up window" at macromedia.com dreamweaver exchange too...

Corey Milner
Creative Director, Indigo Rose Software

[joelle2003]

Re: Loading Swish movie into AutoPlay Media Studio 4.0

excuse my ignorance, but what do you mean by "radd" ?
where do i find this to name the target as blank?

[Corey]

Re: Loading Swish movie into AutoPlay Media Studio 4.0

add.

i.e.

<a href="http://www.indigorose.com" target="blank">Click Here</a>

Corey Milner
Creative Director, Indigo Rose Software

[joelle2003]

Re: Loading Swish movie into AutoPlay Media Studio 4.0

am i supposed to use that directly somewhere in AutoPlay? or in Swish? Where, exactly?

[yosik]

Re: Loading Swish movie into AutoPlay Media Studio 4.0

I"ll try and help you. When you export a swish movie, you get both a swf file and a html file which calls for the swf. This pair of files have to reside together inside your distribution folder.
In AMS, you have to chooe the File>Open action and target the html file. This will open a browser with the html file (which calls to the swf file). Alternatively, you can bypass html, exporting the swf file from swish and do the same in AMS, but this time opening the swf file. This will launch a flash projector window with the swf in it.
Hope that helped.
Good luck
Yossi

[joelle2003]

Re: Loading Swish movie into AutoPlay Media Studio 4.0

By playing around with autoplay, I found the "add page" command and discovered I could place my swf in that page. I don't think I did it correctly though because when I linked it to a button on the opening AMS page, it doesn't open anything but a blank page.
What "actions" do I need to list to make this new page open correctly with the swf flash inside?

[BILLIS]

Re: Loading Swish movie into AutoPlay Media Studio 4.0

I cannt understand what do you exactly want.

Put somewhere in the ams page the command "open file", in order to open the html file. The html plays the swf file. Both html and swf are exported from Swish.

You 'd better load the swf as a "flash object". Hide it in the begining and unhide afterwards
use these:

1. save the swf in the distirbution folder

2. load the swf as a flash object, from: object/flash/settings/flash file

3. hide the flash object from menu "page/properties/actions/page/hide object/your swish movie"

4.now, unhide the flash file, by clicking on a button or text on ams4. right click on the button and "properties/actions/page/show object/your flash movie"

5. finally, close the flash movie by putting an FSCOMMAND in a button in the swish movie (you know how to do this, ok?), call the fscommand as sth like "closeMovie". Export and save the swf in the distribution folder again, replace the first one. Reload it on the ams4 application, right click on it, and put the actions:
%property% = FlashObject[flash1].GetProperty. ("Last FSCommand")
IF(%property% = closeMovie)
Page.HideObject ("Flash1")
ENDIF


Flash1 is your movie, check the name from Flashobject Properties, Attributes, Name...

it was confusing...

[joelle2003]

Re: Loading Swish movie into AutoPlay Media Studio 4.0

thanks everyone for helping... i got it to work correctly!!!
Adam, you were a tremendous help and I hope my inexperience didn't scare you away from helping again.

[Corey]

Re: Loading Swish movie into AutoPlay Media Studio 4.0

Yeah, props to element78.

Corey Milner
Creative Director, Indigo Rose Software

[element78]

Re: Loading Swish movie into AutoPlay Media Studio 4.0

No problem. Glad to help [img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/smile.gif[/img]

Did you finally get it all working?