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About Shockwave movies
Shockwave, the Macromedia standard for interactive multimedia on the Web, is a
compressed format that allows media files created in Macromedia Director to be
downloaded quickly and played by most popular browsers.
Inserting Shockwave movies
The software that plays Shockwave movies is available as both a Netscape
Navigator plugin and an ActiveX control. When you insert a Shockwave movie,
Dreamweaver uses both the
object
tag (for the ActiveX control) and the
embed
tag (for the plugin) to get the best results in all browsers. When you make changes
in the Property inspector for the movie, Dreamweaver maps your entries to the
appropriate parameters for both the
object
and
embed
tags.
To insert a Shockwave movie:
1
In the Design view of Document window, place the insertion point where you
want to insert a Shockwave movie.
2
Click the Shockwave button on the Objects panel, or choose Insert > Media >
Shockwave or drag the Shockwave button over to your document.
3
In the dialog box that appears, select a movie file.
4
In the Property inspector, enter the width and height of the movie in the
W and H boxes.
Setting Shockwave properties
To ensure the best results in both Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape
Navigator, Dreamweaver inserts Shockwave movies using both the
object
and
embed
tags. (
object
is the tag defined by Microsoft for ActiveX controls;
embed
is
the tag defined by Navigator for plugins.) To view the properties in the Property
inspector, select a Shockwave movie.
The Property inspector initially displays the most commonly used properties.
Click the expander arrow in the lower right corner to see all properties.
Name
specifies a name to identify the movie for scripting. Enter a name in the
unlabeled field on the far left side of the Property inspector.
W and H
specify the width and height of the movie in pixels. You can also specify
the following units: pc (picas), pt (points), in (inches), mm (millimeters), cm
(centimeters), or % (percentage of the parent object’s width or height). The
abbreviations must follow the value without a space: for example, 3mm.
File
specifies the path to the Shockwave movie file. Click the folder icon to
browse, or type a path to the file.