Change the EMBED SRC through JAVASCRIPT ?

[Bolga]

Hye,
I want to change a Flash *.swf (or other embed element) SRC with a javascript link such as this one : <a href="#" onClick="document.images['image'].src='fileName'">

How to? (here it is images relative, how to get it to work on a embed flash ?)

1001 thx !

[yasunobu13]

first you can create a javascript function

code:

---

function changeEmbedSrc(id, newsrc){

elem = document.getElementById(id);

elem.src = newsrc;

}

---

then, on your embed give it a unique ID

<embed ... id="uniqueID1" .../>

and on the link you want to change the source

<a href="javascript:void;" onclick="changeEmbedSrc('uniqueID1','../newsrc/file.swf');">linky</a>

it should work, but I haven't tested it at all. If it does work, then it will only be on more modern browsers

[Bolga]

Thx... I tried myself with this expression. COuld do advise me about it ?

<EMBED src="" width=400 height=250 NAME="myEmbedName" >
<a href="#" onClick="document.embeds['myEmbedName'].src='changed.swf'"> here </a>

[yasunobu13]

Well, I tried it out. Looks like it can't be done the way I proposed, sorry. Maybe someone else knows how.

But here's what you could do, you could have the swf file load the movie dynamically via loadMovie, then use this

http://www.macromedia.com/support/fl...cript_comm.htm

to change the variable of what is to be loaded, when the variable changes, you load the new movie into the swf. This should work instead of changing the HTML, you change variables within the swf

[Bolga]

OK I'll read it, good idea