Flash loadMovie Support

To incorporate a Cool Focus Flash applet into your own movie, just create your datafile in the normal way (by following the applet's documentation or using Design Studio) and place the applet's SWF file and datafile in the same folder as your own movie. Create an empty MovieClip object, and use loadMovie to load the applet's SWF file into it. Set the _x and _y positions of the applet, and you're done!

Better still, you can use the Cool Focus applet to control aspects of your own movie. We provide event callbacks for "link" and "message" events:

• If the user clicks a linking item, the applet would usually handle the link itself. You can intercept these events to receive the URL and frame target parameters for the clicked item and process them yourself. (Needless to say, the URLs and Targets can be replaced with your own identifiers.)

• Many applets include a Message parameter for each item displayed in an applet, allowing you to display a message in the browser's status bar when the mouse hovers over the item. The applet can't access the status bar when loaded into your movie, but it can pass the text of the message to your movie. You can use these events to display the message in a text field. (Or, again, you can replace the Message parameters in the datafile with your own identifiers, letting you respond to mouse-over/mouse-leave events by changing aspects of your movie.)

You can set all the applet parameters using our free Design Studio application. For instructions about incorporating the applet into your own movie and intercepting events, consult the documentation for any Cool Focus Flash applet, or read the full API in our online documentation.