I am creating an ad serving application using Flash and DHTML and I
need to figure out the x and y coordinates of a flash movie that does
not have a 'id' or ‘name’ attribute defined in the <OBJECT> or <EMBED>
tags.  The application is to be placed on third party web sites so I
do not have access to modify the flash movies on these web sites.  I
only need to make it work in Internet Explorer on the PC.  The
solution I came up with in JavaScript is to access the <EMBED> using
document.embeds[0] and then assign the movie an id using
document.embeds[0].id = “whatevername”.  Only problem is that with
flash the <EMBED> tags are nested in the <OBJECT> tags and this seems
to prevent the browser from being able to see the <EMBED> tags so the
document.embeds[0] does not work.  document.plugins[0] does not work
either.  I also do not know of a way to access the <OBJECT> tags using
a built in array like you can with the <EMBED> tags.   Does anyone
know of a solution to this problem?  Perhaps there is an equivalent
statement to document.embeds[0] in client side VBScript that would
work?   It would work to be able to set the id in either the <OBJECT>
or <EMBED> tags or get the x and y coordinates some other way (which I
don’t think is possible).