Webmaster Forum / Flash / Data Integration / May 2007

I discovered what the problem was. The control has a play command, but it
doesn't do what you think it does! It just forces the entire movie to play from
end to end without user interaction.

Basically if you have a swf that loads other swf files or flv's, you just need
the following

        'Set up the Flash container
        Me.AxShockwaveFlash1.Top = Me.Top
        Me.AxShockwaveFlash1.Left = Me.Left
        Me.AxShockwaveFlash1.Width = Me.Width
        'Make sure you over write the taskbar gap at the bottom
        Me.AxShockwaveFlash1.Height = Me.Height + 28
        Me.AxShockwaveFlash1.AllowFullScreen = True
        Me.AxShockwaveFlash1.LoadMovie(0, MovieFileName)

This code is attached to a full screen, modeless form (That is... it has no
title bar, or buttons at the top)  the control is then resized to fit the
dimensions of the fullscreen form, but you have to add 28 pixels to the bottom
in order to make sure the taskbar is over-written (Although the form is full
screen, for some reason the .height property only returns the height of the
form minus the taskbar)

Note: Don't use axShockwaveFlash1.Play() !

Oh, and if you're trying to play flv's, embed them in a swf first. As has been
said above.