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Inserting Flash Elements
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Flash Parameter Possible Values Description
showSidebar Yes or No Displays or hides the document outline, if
available.
showTool Yes or No Displays or hides the tool selection buttons.
showZoom Yes or No Displays or hides the zoom controls.
sidebarWidth A numeric value representing
width in pixels
Sets the width of the sidebar.
Adding Shockwave Files
Flash is not Adobe’s only solution for building interactive presentations for the Web. For many Web
designers, Shockwave was their first introduction to Web interactivity. With Shockwave, multi-
media files created in Adobe’s flagship CD-ROM authoring package, Director, can be compiled to
run in a browser window. This functionality gives Web designers the capability to build just about
anything—including arcade-style games and multimedia Web front-ends—bringing a CD-ROM
look-and-feel to the Web.
Before you can successfully include a Shockwave file, you need to know one small bit of informa-
tion—the dimensions of your movie. Dreamweaver automatically reads the dimensions of your
Flash file when you insert the Flash movie object. Unfortunately, if you’re incorporating a Shock-
wave movie, you must enter the dimensions in the Property inspector. To find the width and height
of a Shockwave movie, load it into Director and then choose Modify ➪ Movie ➪ Properties to open
the Property inspector. The dimensions are loc ...