Insert Flash Animation in FrontPage

Although FrontPage 2000 and Flash belong to Web design software, the compatibility of both is not very good. Using the "Insert" menu in FrontPage 2000, whether it's a picture, or a file, or you can't insert a SWF file directly, or you can't display it correctly after inserting it, the author explores and tries to find the following 4 ways to use Flash animation in FrontPage 2000:

1. At the end of Flash animation, the output is GIF animation. If you want to be transparent, you must select "Transparent" in the "Export GIF" dialog box (Figure 1), with the advantage that you can use Insert/Picture/From file in FrontPage 2000, which is convenient, fast, and the disadvantage is that you get Flash animation files directly, You can't make that change.

Figure 1 Setting the properties of the animation output

2, in FrontPage 2000, use Insert/Advanced/plugin/browse, select the file, OK. The advantage is that you can directly insert the SWF file without conversion, the disadvantage is that the background, the image in the larger or smaller, the animation background and graphics can not be fully proportional scaling.

3, at the end of the Flash animation, the first "save" after "Publish", "save" the purpose is to name the file, easy to use the same name "Publish". After entering FrontPage 2000, click Insert/File, select the saved HTML file, open, right-click, or double-click the Insert object, enter the ActiveX Control Properties window, and in the Movie URL (link address) field, enter the absolute path or link address of the SWF file in the " Quality (play Quality) "" Best "in the" Scale (zoom) "column Select" ShowAll ", if you want to be transparent, in the Windows mode bar, select" Transparent ", the remaining options by default. Preview, you can see the transparent display effect. The advantage is for the Flash animation directly obtained, or by entering the absolute path or enter the link address, you can insert and control the effect, the disadvantage is that you can not use browse lookup, to enter absolute path, the user's higher requirements.

4. Use the Insert/Advanced/activex control directly to eject the Insert ActiveX Control window, which shows only some of the controls installed on your computer. Click the Customize button to open the Custom ActiveX Control list box, which shows all installed ActiveX controls on your computer, and select the Shockwave Flash Object control to determine. Back in the Insert ActiveX Control window, you will see that the Shockwave Flash Object control is already in the list. When you select the Shockwave Flash Object control, determine that a white rectangular area appears in the page, double-click it, and enter or select the relevant parameters in the pop-up ActiveX Control Properties window. The prerequisite is to install the Flash software or the "Shockwave Flash Object" control.