Keystrokes don't work in html

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Been working pretty hard on converting a flash presentation so I can use it my website portfolio.

The presentation used keystrokes to navigate instead of button so the presenter didn’t need to wave a mouse pointer all over the screen.

I have published my flash file to the web, embedded it in an html page and now the keystrokes don’t work.

Can anyone shed any light?

2

They don’t work at all?
Or they work after you set focus on the flash movie?

3

set focus?

When I export my file to swf and test it they keystokes work fine. When I open up the swf file from windows on its own - they work fine.

When I import the swf file into an html page and open it up - they dont work at all. :h:

4

Yes, set focus.
Try opening the html page, click on the flash movie and then test the keystrokes.

5

AH! Set Focus! Yes it now works! (who feels a bit dozey now :-/ )

Thank you.

Is there any coding way of bypassing this? (the movie is launced in a new window and without me putting a ‘play movie’ button in, the viewer would have no need to click on the page)

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Yes, open the html document and find the id parameter inside the <object> tag.
Something like this:

<OBJECT.... id="mymovie" ....>

Now, edit the tag:

<body onLoad=mymovie.focus()>
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Thats great.

I used this for the body copy though to get it to work:

<body bgcolor="#333333" onLoad=“window.document.[color=slategray]myMovie[/color].focus();”><body >