Question

I have a .swf banner embeded on my xhtml and I need it to replay after 20 seconds so if the user is still watching that page he will see the animation again. It needs to be a loop or something so the animation will play again 20 seconds after finished over and over again.
Can this be achieved with javascript?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Assuming you have a unique id for the flash player you could simply do this:

var player = document.getElementById("playerID");
var movieLength = 10000; // in ms, change this as needed
var delay = 20000; // in ms

function playMovie() {
    player.play();
    window.setTimeout(playMovie, movieLength + delay);
};

playMovie(); // Assuming it doesn't start automatically.

This calls the play() function on the player every 20 seconds (plus movie length and delay).