The classic start a movie with mouseclick..Q!

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Takuan(Posted 2009) [#1]
Heyho,

simply cant find a nice answer on google, so i thought, if they dont know it on bb.com..who else on earth could:)

Goal: Start a movie on a homepage via mouseclick on that movie or a button.

Movie is playing fine using adobe player (.swf).
Now i need a way to control this player (click on movie->play).

If i got it right, then action script is what i am looking for?
But cant find informations about how to use it (code itself isnt that hard, but how does it work?). Do i need a compiler? What could that be?

I dont ask for code, more for a general information about the workflow. What tools could you need. How does embedding in the homepage work? Task easier done with Java?
How would you do it?
Please, any clues:)


AJ00200(Posted 2009) [#2]
I dont know Action Script, but heres a workaround.
<div id="movie" onclick="this.innerHTML='FLASH PLAYER EMBED';">
<img src="MOVIE THUMB" /></div>



Takuan(Posted 2009) [#3]
uh? Thank you:)


AJ00200(Posted 2009) [#4]
You are writing the (X)HTML right?