Problem with JavaScript interacting with Flash

Okay, turns out I need to just use bannerad.PercentLoaded to keep it from going to the frame framenum until it's completely loaded.

I'm currently scouring the web for solutions, but if anyone knows, that would be some good info for me to have. It will help me avoid staying up too late tonight to meet this deadline.

Now I can get it working in Firefox using this line:

var bannerad = window.document.bannerad;

However, that won't work in IE. Everything I've read so far online says the following should work in IE:

var bannerad = document.getElementById("bannerad");

But that isn't working either.

If I have to chose, I'd rather get it working in IE than Firefox. Any ideas?

Well, I was not aware you can pull javascript veriables out of a flash object... All I can tell you is to make sure your id attribute is "bannerad". Also that you are putting the html in right.

Neither was I before tonight.

For anyone wanting to check out my code, it's at http://tinyurl.com/cqd6l

And here's the javascript the Flash banner is executing once at the beginning of it's timeline.

var framenum = getCookie();

Quote: var bannerad = document.bannerad;

if (framenum)
{
if (bannerad.PercentLoaded() == 100)
{
bannerad.GotoFrame(framenum);
bannerad.Play();
}
else
{
bannerad.GotoFrame(1);
bannerad.Play();
}
}

function getCookie()
{
var dc = document.cookie;
var prefix = "bannerframe=";
var begin = dc.indexOf("; " + prefix);
if (begin == -1)
{
begin = dc.indexOf(prefix);
if (begin != 0) return null;
}
else
{
begin += 2;
}
var end = document.cookie.indexOf(";", begin);
if (end == -1)
{
end = dc.length;
}
return unescape(dc.substring(begin + prefix.length, end));
}

What's really wierd is that it seems to work fine here:

http://www.permadi.com/tutorial/flashGetObject/

Okay, I'm getting ready to show this to a client tomorrow, so I'm going disable everything that's working in Firefox but not IE. Feel free to continue to comment if you know of any solutions.

wow, I have no idea....