Macromedia Active Shockwave
Documentation
Rev 0.4

Last Updated May 30, 1996

Introduction

This document describes the properties, methods, and events for Active Shockwave. A sample of the control's usage in an HTML file is also included.

Control Properties

This section describes the Control's properties and the associated behaviors involved with assigning values to them.

AutoPlay

Syntax

• object.AutoPlay [= Boolean]

Settings

• True (default)
  False

Remarks

• Returns or sets a value to determine the behavior during an assignment to the SRC property. If AutoPlay is True, then assigning a value to SRC will cause the movie file to automatically load into the player, then begin playing.

SRC

Syntax

• object.SRC [= String]

Remarks

• Returns or sets a value of the file to play.

Sound

Syntax

• object.Sound [= Boolean]

Settings

• True (default)
  False

Remarks

• Returns or sets a value for enabling sound

Control Methods

StartMovie

Syntax

• object.StartMovie

Remarks

• Starts playing the currently loaded movie from the first frame

StopMovie

Syntax

• object.StopMovie

Remarks

• Stops the current movie from playing.

Control Events

FramePassed(FrameNumber)

Syntax

• Sub object_FramePassed(FrameNumber)
  end sub

Remarks

• This event is fired from the control continually during movie play. This event gives the user a chance to perform event handling based on a frame number in a movie.

LoadProgress(PercentLoaded)

Syntax

• Sub object_LoadProgress(PercentLoaded)
  end sub

Remarks

• This event is fired from the control while a movie is being downloaded from a source

MovieLoaded

Syntax

• Sub object_MovieLoaded
  end sub

Remarks

• This event is fired from the control after the movie has been successfully loaded

Control Usage

This an example of the HTML that will create an Active Shockwave control on an HTML page.

<object CLASSID="clsid:166B1BCA-3F9C-11CF-8075-444553540000"
codebase="../downloads/sw.cab"
width="450" height="300"
Name="sw" Id="sw">
<param name="SRC" value="movies/logo.dir">
</OBJECT>