Embedded Flash - cannot stop auto-play

Hello - when I attach a flash file using this sort of syntax,

!^myflashfile.swf!

... it plays automatically, which is not so desirable. Flash has parameters which you can normally pass in html - i.e. play=false, menu=true, loop=false - that Confluence does not apparently support.

This fact makes it impossible (well, impractical) to put multiple flash files on one page, because they will all start playing at once, which is probably not the desired behavior. I believe the default should be to NOT play the file, so that you can get the benefit of having the file show up as a graphic on the page, or if you want it to play, use a parameter to cause that to happen.

I hope you'll consider this.

Kind regards,
Rick Cogley
Tokyo