Luke, Sam ->
Thank you for clarifying the issue for me. It's always the simple
things that take the longest to debug ;(
Another thing I learned is that if the DOM element containing the
embedded flash is hidden (display: none), I cannot send
commands/interact with the SWF via Javascript. I would get "[method
name] is not a method" errors. There is apparently a small delay when
showing/hiding/creating the flash videos -- which is related to my
$().ready() issue. To get around this, I wrote a simple queue plugin
which continually tries to execute a method until it is successful.
Here's the code;
(function($) {
$.fn.fq = function(o) { var i=this[0].id; $.fq.q(i,o,0); return this; }
$.fq = {
q: function(i,o,c) { if(c>20) return; var e=$('#'+i)[0];
(e[o]) ? e[o]() :
setTimeout("$.fq.q('"+i+"','"+o+"',"+(c+1)+");",350); return; }
};
})(jQuery);
Example use;
--------------------
<div id="fp"></div>
...
var fo = new SWFObject("flowplayer/FlowPlayer.swf", "FP", "730", "510",
"7");
...
fo.write("fp");
$('#FP').fq('DoPlay'); // Continually try to execute the DoPlay method
on the DOM element created by SWFObject.
NOTE: I think my method queue function doesn't work in opera. The whole
thing may be garbage [quick hack on no sleep] ;) Also.. for some reason
in seems that if I cache the element ($('#'+i)[0]) it will never detect
the new method.. so I perform the getElementByID() function per loop cycle.
Luke Lutman wrote:
> Since you're not doing anything fancy, why not just pass the config as
> flashvars and save
> yourself a world of hurt? ;-)
>
It is now time to let the fanciness commence ;)
~ Brice
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