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Customizing HTML publishing templates

If you're familiar with HTML, you can modify HTML template variables to create an image map, a text report, or a URL report, or to insert your own values for some of the most common Flash OBJECT and EMBED parameters (for Internet Explorer and Netscape Communicator/Navigator, respectively).

Flash templates can include any HTML content for your application, or even code for special interpreters such as Cold Fusion, ASP, and the like.

To modify an HTML publishing template:

1 Using an HTML editor, open the Flash HTML template you want to change, located in the Macromedia Flash 5/HTML folder.
2 Edit the template as needed. To use the default values, leave the variables empty.
For information on variables supported in Flash, see the following table.
For information on creating an image map or a text or URL report, or to insert your own values for OBJECT and EMBED parameters, see the sections for those topics, following this procedure.
3 When you have finished editing the variables, save the template in the Macromedia Flash 5/HTML folder.
Flash saves the modified template with the Flash movie's file name and the template extension. For example, saving a template named Standard.asp for publishing a Flash movie named MyMovie.swf produces a template named MyMovie.asp.
4 To apply the template settings to your Flash movie, choose File > Publish Settings, select the HTML panel, and select the template you modified.
Flash changes only the template variables in the template selected in the Publish Settings dialog box.
5 Choose your remaining publishing settings, and click OK. For more information, see Publishing Flash movies.

The following tables lists the template variables that Flash recognizes. For a definition of all the tags these variables work with, see Editing Flash HTML settings.
Parameter Template Variable

Template title

$TT

Template description start

$DS

Template description finish

$DF

Width

$WI

Height

$HE

Movie

$MO

HTML alignment

$HA

Looping

$LO

Parameters for OBJECT

$PO

Parameters for EMBED

$PE

Play

$PL

Quality

$QU

Scale

$SC

Salign

$SA

Wmode

$WM

Devicefont

$DE

Bgcolor

$BG

Movie text (area to write movie text)

$MT

Movie URL (location of movie URLs)

$MU

Image width (unspecified image type)

$IW

Image height (unspecified image type)

$IH

Image file name (unspecified image type)

$IS

Image map name

$IU

Image map tag location

$IM

QuickTime width

$QW

QuickTime height

$QH

QuickTime file name

$QN

GIF width

$GW

GIF height

$GH

GIF file name

$GS

JPEG width

$JW

JPEG height

$JH

JPEG file name

$JN

PNG width

$PW

PNG height

$PH

PNG file name

$PN

Generator variables OBJECT tag

$GV

Generator variables EMBED tag

$GE