I've seen similar questions asked a dozen times and all answered the same way, but it appears that my situation is unique.

I have a .NET page with a Panel that I show/hide with link clicks. This Panel contains an <embed> flash video.

I have the video autostarting, but when I click the "close panel" link, the panel closes and the video continues to play! What I really want is for the video to STOP and THEN have the panel hide.

The way we do the panel hiding is via javascript, which simply reset the style.display of hte panel element. Then it does a "return false" to prevent the postback.

I've found numerous ways to access and control the flash object via javascript, but if I add those calls to the beginning of my "hidePanel" function, they do not do anything.

I created a separate stopFlashMovie() javascript function and it works, but only if I do NOT "return false" at the end. Unfortunately, if I do not "return false", the page posts back and, because of some fancy URL-rewriting (SEO crap I do NOT understand), the page redirects to some other place that I do NOT want.

It seems as if hte "return false" is somehow preventing the StopPlay() flash method from working.

Did this make enough sense for someone to maybe understand my dilemma and suggest a solution!???

Thanks!

Why are you using a postback control for behavior that needs to happen at the client? Couldn't this be easily solved with a control that ONLY does client side code and doesn't generate any postback script?

-Peter
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A very good question. Answer: Inherited code.

I'll have to do some investigation to see if I can convert this part of the page to straight client-side.

We shall see.

I have dealt with a similar situation in the past and the way that I achieved it was by not using a Server Control at all. I simply used a plain old Anchor tag such as this:

<a onclick="JavascriptFunction()">Click Me</a>

You can test this yourself by placing a simplistic Javascript function on your page and replicating my code above and you will notice that no round trip to the server is made. There is one caveat to this: without the href attribute your cursor will behave differently when you hover over the link (it turns into a caret instead of the hand icon) but this can be easily fixed with a bit of CSS.

Obviously this is an elaborated explination of what Peter is suggesting but I am confused when you say: Inherited code. To me that means that this panel/video player is in someway inherited from a Base class that is providing the functionality. Is this correct or do you mean to say that you inherited this code from another developer?

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I was afraid someone would misinterpret my "inherited code" comment. Your second guess is the correct one. *I* inteherited the code from a previous developer and am attempting to ad functionality without having to rewrite the entire page... something I bet most developers have neeb through.

:)

Goodness! Did I write that mess? I must have been typing with my eyes closed while riding a horse!!

I apologize for my NUMEROUS spelling mistakes. ugh.