er, that should have been:
swf.addParam(wmode, opaque);
On Apr 20, 2007, at 6:21 PM, Riley, Jason wrote:
On the site I am working on, there is an OpenCube DHTML menu system
that
when moused over causes the drop down menus to overlay on a large
Flash
element. How can I make it so the menus
even older versions should work fine (i think we were testing it in
ie7 all the way back to 1.3 or so) - but using the very latest is
always a good idea.
On Apr 3, 2007, at 12:44 PM, eka wrote:
Hello :)
you use the last version of SWFObject ? (1.5)
http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/
you don't need anything in the /source folder - it's just there so
you can see the code in an uncompressed way, or if you want to modify
the expressinstall.swf files.
you only need swfobject.js and (optionally) expressinstall.swf
On Apr 3, 2007, at 12:48 PM, Matthew Ganz wrote:
my foolish
div id=flashcontent
This text is replaced by the Flash movie.
/div
script type=text/javascript
var so = new SWFObject(home.swf, mymovie, 100%, 100%, 8,
#FF);
so.addParam(scale, NOSCALE);
so.write(flashcontent);
/script
/body
/html
- Original Message - From: Geoff Stearns
i adjusted the detection in swfobject to account for debug players in
the last update (1.5) which may explain why my test site works and
youtube doesn't.
but they should still detect that you have a version 7 which is
what all their videos are encoded for...
are you using firefox or IE?
can you expand on the problems you had with swfobject? i haven't seen
any problems like you described while using it.
On Jan 29, 2007, at 5:48 PM, Patrick Lemiuex wrote:
Hey guys and girls:
I am having an issue with javascript flash detection and using
javascript methods from html form
I think most people should be very interested in these results, even
if they don't know it yet.
On Mar 21, 2007, at 11:14 AM, Francis Bourre wrote:
hello!
As I know, I didn't ask ppl to test an application or a site I made.
That's a test that to enlight the fact that EventDispatcher
there's an old article on the adobe dev center that talks all about
this... go check it out:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/bitwise_operators.html
On Mar 21, 2007, at 2:21 PM, Alias™ wrote:
Hi guys,
This is annoying me - I'm just trying to get the seperate RGB
component
the default is 100k, so if you need less than that, you don't need to
call flush()
On Mar 14, 2007, at 4:44 PM, Matthew Ganz wrote:
hi.
is there a default size for a shared object? i know thru the
settings you can set it to different values, but when i test a
flash app that wants to
most performance differences are negligible between the players.
if you are seeing bugs because of slow code execution, you are
probably writing some Very Bad Code and should consider changing the
way your app is put together (eg. use callbacks for when dependancies
finish, etc.)
The
all the attributes are in the attributes object, so you can just do a
for...in loop and grab them all.
example:
for(a in xObj.attributes) {
obj[a] = xObj.attributes[a];
}
On Mar 15, 2007, at 12:19 AM, Carl Welch wrote:
What if I don't know what the names are going to be? How can
this might help you out:
http://blog.deconcept.com/2006/12/08/corrupt-flash-player-install-
after-ie-7-upgrade/
On Mar 14, 2007, at 3:03 PM, Juan Anzaldo wrote:
Hi I am using the swfobject object from deconcept, and I have a
strange behavior in some Internet Explorer web browsers, in
I have an example I never officially released, and i remember seeing
another example on another blog somewhere.
it's pretty easy to set up, just do a loadvars and pass the raw data
back to js and it works very similarly to the native xmlhttprequest.
On Mar 14, 2007, at 1:28 PM, bruce
you guys should have it show the number of results under each tab.
it looks like you get no results at all when you search for something
that's not in the livedocs, but is under other tabs.
or maybe just some indication that there are other results in the
other tabs?
On Mar 7, 2007, at
a good way to do this would be to make a static class for your
tracking stuff.
then you can do things like:
StatsTracker.trackPage(url);
from any class or timeline (assuming you import the class first, etc.
etc.)
then you can use ExternalInterface to make the js call to your
tracking
i searched for swfobject and got a few results. none were the
official page. that made me sad :(
On Mar 7, 2007, at 11:04 AM, Steve Drucker wrote:
http://www.gotswf.com
Feedback appreciated.
Regards,
Steve Drucker
CEO
Fig Leaf Software
www.figleaf.com
localconnection i believe is supported in all the browsers - as long
as you have the minimum flash player requirement (i think flash
player 6 was the first one to add support?)
as for the getURL question: if you are using flash player 8 or higher
you should be using external interface,
this is a sort-of-known issue - i don't think adobe ever posted a
knowledge base article about it, but they implemented a fix for it in
flash player 9 (which was buggy)
i replied to your post here:
http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/forum/discussion/123/fms-20-
should be fine, do you have any other elements with the same id as
your movie (mymovie) or is your swf inside a form?
On Jan 24, 2007, at 6:57 AM, Andreas R wrote:
I'm having some trouble catching EI calls when using swfObject,
anyone else got this working?
div id=flashcontent
This
wow you are all making this much harder than it has to be.
If you use SWFObject to embed your swfs, it has a built in function
that grabs vars from the url string.
an example:
var so = new SWFOBject(mymovie.swf, mymovie, ...);
so.addVariable(myvar, getQueryParamValue(myurlvar));
Can you give more details on the 'invalidate our php session in IE'
problem you mentioned?
Many people use SWFObject with PHP, and I've never heard of a problem
like this before.
On Jan 21, 2007, at 1:52 PM, {reduxdj} wrote:
Hi There,
I'm using a document write tag in js to avoid the
have you tried uninstalling the plugin (using the adobe uninstaller)
and then reinstalling it?
On Jan 22, 2007, at 3:36 AM, Arindam Dhar wrote:
hi,
I have encountered flash ocx error many times which just appears
without any hint after which I have no other option but to close
the
no way, apple already has a widget engine - Dashboard.
On Jan 10, 2007, at 5:05 PM, hosey hosey wrote:
Here is a crack pipe for ya.released in June, Apollo in June
(ish)Apollo runs the widgets on iphone?
Smoke em if ya got em
Hosey
On 1/10/07, Andy Herrman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
i've never heard of this happening on a mac.
i *have* heard a few reports of this behavior happening with IE7,
which i recently outlined in this blog post:
http://blog.deconcept.com/2006/12/08/corrupt-flash-player-install-
after-ie-7-upgrade/
but if she says she is on a mac, then maybe
if you need to pass strings like that, you just have to include an
extra set of quotes...
you could either escape another set, like this:
getURL(javascript:testfunc(\+arg+\));
or use single quotes:
getURL(javascript:testfunc('+arg+'));
On Nov 17, 2006, at 4:16 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
uhh, SWFObject requires you specify a version, but it's a *minimum*
version...
so if you publised your movie as flash 7 content, you say 'this
requires flash player 7', and swfobject takes that as '7 or higher'.
so you don't have to update anything.
On Nov 9, 2006, at 1:52 PM, Merrill,
I did some research into this a while back:
http://blog.deconcept.com/2006/02/27/using-alternate-content-flash/
end result: too much hassle to get the code you really want... you
never know when browsers will update and break it in the future, or
when some new obscure browser will come up
no javascript, just do a new XML object in flash, and load the page.
so you really just need to pass the page url into flash:
so.addVariable(currentPage, document.location.href);
then use that to do an xml.load()
On Nov 9, 2006, at 3:03 PM, Mike Keesey wrote:
That sounds *much* nicer--how
swfobject is only 6.7kb... it doesn't get much lighter than that.
if you *really* need something smaller (which sounds like a
ridiculous need to me) you could take the plugin detection code from
swfobject out and just use that. that would chop the size down to
about 1/4 of the full size,
sure, i think that you are making a mistake though not testing for a
flash version number.
if you have flash 8 content, and you user has flash player 7 (or
lower) - your method would still embed the swf into the page, and the
user's flash player would attempt to play that swf... often
you need to add allowscriptaccess=always to your embed code.
BUT, even with that, you might not be able to close it.. usually when
you try to close a window you didn't open yourself, you get prompted
by the browser... nothing you can do about that.
if you really want it to behave like an
I'm curious why you would want to. Are you taking that text and
spitting it out as html?
As long as it's inside the Flash player, it doesn't matter what it
looks like, as the Flash Player is acting as the browser, and no web
browser will ever see that htmlText or have to read it.
To
.
I know regular expressions are the way. They're bit of a vodoo for
me, but I'm getting there... :)
Geoff Stearns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm curious why you
would want to. Are you taking that text and
spitting it out as html?
As long as it's inside the Flash player, it doesn't matter
I just use:
object, embed {
align: justify;
}
and that usually does the trick!*
* it's a joke. ha ha.
On Oct 31, 2006, at 3:43 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm working on a large commercial site that uses FP7 based content.
What are some of the arguments and/or
not sure about accessibility changes.. but SEO changes are kinda
pointless in most cases.. i wrote an article on flash SEO a while
back that might interest you (and others on the list):
http://blog.deconcept.com/2006/03/13/modern-approach-flash-seo/
On Oct 31, 2006, at 4:56 PM, Micky
i don't understand how this would help. firefox on mac supports
transparent wmode perhaps better than any other browser...
what we really need to help is a link to the page so we can have a
look and see what's going on.
On Oct 30, 2006, at 3:29 PM, Steven Sacks | BLITZ wrote:
Check to
no, it works well enough on firefox + safari*.
the decreased performance is true, but i beleive that's across all
platforms.. it's just more noticeable on osx because it's already
that much slower than PC in some cases.
but just using the param by no means would make a movie not show up
it sounds to me like what is happening is that the user has a version
less than flash 8 installed, so they *should* get the expressinstall
prompt, but that probably isn't working. mostlikely the code wasn't
implemented properly in your swf.
for the next release of swfobject i'm fixing this
you mean inside dashboard?
i tried this when dashboard first came out, and I couldn't figure out
how to get it working.
On Oct 17, 2006, at 4:54 AM, Oliver Müller wrote:
Hi,
does anyone know how to make a swf transparent within a Mac widget?
I only get white a white border though it
there's one other issue with expressinstall, and that is if you are
using IE, and some other program on your system is using the flash
player .ocx file, then when you finish the upgrade, and your original
browser window closes and the new one opens, the page will still
think that you have
most of my projects these days do have express install enabled, so i
use the same code that is in the 'basic w/ express install' example.
swfobject doesn't really do much in the way of express install - all
it does is check to see if the user needs the upgrade or not, and
then pass some
i thought it was funny.
On Oct 5, 2006, at 5:43 PM, Ammon Lauritzen wrote:
On 10/5/06, Ammon Lauritzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm sorry, I thought I was clearer than that. By without
swfobject I
meant that I had also tried manually as well:
And yes, now that I look back on it, I
the answer I always give is this:
sure, it's possible to use javascript to extract the links and
information that is in your adsense stuff, and put it into your flash
movie. this is just javascript reading html and sending it to your
flash movie.
but the real question is: does it violate
that article was only meant for assigning a class to your _root
timeline... I don't think he intended it to be used for other
movieclips in the library or on stage.
for that you could just use the linkage in the library or use
Object.registerClass()
On Sep 19, 2006, at 4:29 PM,
MovieClip.attachMovie() or MovieClip.duplicateMovieClip(), it is
registered
to the class specified by theClass
Scott
On 9/19/06, Geoff Stearns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
that article was only meant for assigning a class to your _root
timeline... I don't think he intended it to be used for other
Hey all, I'm working on what will become SWFObject 2.0 (need to
update it to support as3 Express Install stuff) and I wanted to get
ideas for new features.
It currently works fine, and there aren't too many obvious things
that could be added, but I wanted to ask and see what sort of
you just need to put the html content inside a cdata tag:
newsitem date=8/5/2006 headline=Some headline![CDATA[ Body of
the news
article. a href=http://www.google.com;Google/a More body of the
article/newsitem newsitem date=8/1/2006 headline=Another
headlineBody of the second article
this is why i don't like putting my swf and html in different
directories...
try using the base attribute
On Aug 8, 2006, at 11:04 AM, quinrou . wrote:
Hi,
My HTML and my flash movie live in 2 different directories. So when
I work
in the flash IDE my swf can load all its assets but
the short answer is you probably just need to give the embed tag an
Id attribute.
the long answer is: why can't you use an object tag? that makes
absolutely no sense at all.
even more: you should be using a Javascript solution like SWFObject
anyway, since that will skip the 'click to
There was mention on the SWFObject list that the expressinstall
servers were being hit pretty hard right now because myspace (the #1
site on the internet traffic wise) started requiring Flash Player 9,
and are using expressinstall...
so there's thousands (millions?) of people upgrading
hey, here's an update (and a fix) to this issue:
it looks like (as you pointed out) it is a bug in the new fp9 - this
code was added in to fix an issue in IE with streaming media... if
you were using flash media server to stream video, and left the page
while the video was playing, the
it's been on my list for months now...
i did create one, but it was a bit buggy and not documented at all -
http://blog.deconcept.com/code/historymanager/
and there's changes to this I wanted to make, so it does more
friendly looking hashes, instead of name/value pairs as it does now...
Do you think you'll carry on development on it?
yeah eventually... i haven't had much time lately for stuff like
this, but it's at the top of my 'would be nice to have...' list.
On Jul 25, 2006, at 3:53 PM, Paul Neave wrote:
On 25/07/06, Geoff Stearns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i did
no, but you could fake it by appending something to your requests,
like so:
http://www.example.com/loadstuff.php?reqfrom=swf
On Jun 19, 2006, at 5:55 PM, Mike Lyda wrote:
I can use PHP ( echo($_SERVER[HTTP_USER_AGENT]); ) to detect a
request
from the Flash IDE or from Central. Both
that's not really accurate... you can have the flash inserted as the
page loads and not have to activate it. the requirement is that it's
written by an external script, and not invoked natively by the
browser (and plain html).
it doesn't matter if it's done onload or inline as the page is
you have to use an external script because of the way the patent was
worded.. by using an external script, you are somehow not infringing
on it, so that's how the patch works.
On Jun 15, 2006, at 11:09 AM, 8ball Developer wrote:
Hi Karina,
(probably already answered question) Why does
also i might as well take this opportunity to point everyone to
SWFObject:
http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/
it fixes all the eolas problems you are having, it's really easy to
use, supports express install, does plugin detection and can provide
alternate content, opens your wine
the click to
activate
message if you have cleared your cache and then visited your
example pages
without restarting your browser first.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Geoff
Stearns
Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 10:56 AM
To: Flashcoders mailing
it still works fine - same as always.
On May 30, 2006, at 8:58 AM, Christian wrote:
I was under the impression that getURL(javascript:) no longer
worked in Flash 8. Is this incorrect?
Geoff Stearns wrote:
are you making the js call before the page is done loading?
the browser might
yes, just make your links like this:
http://www.example.com/path/to/page.html?variable=value
replace variable with the name of a variable you want, and 'value'
with whatever value you want to pass.
then, in your page.html when you embed the flash movie, you can grab
the variable from the
are you making the js call before the page is done loading?
the browser might be treating is as an anchor click and stop loading
the remaining items on the page (this is normal browser behavior)
since you are using Flash 8, why not use ExternalInterface to make
the call? in IE that will
have you tried SWFObject?
http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/
On May 26, 2006, at 6:21 AM, Martin Weiser wrote:
Hello guys,
i found soullution for active x object activation by js here:
http://therippa.blogspot.com/2006/03/activateactivex.html
but, it had that unpleasant blink
import in flash is only used to save you some typing.
when you use
import com.package.Class;
the class is *not* included in the swf until you reference that class
in your code somewhere.
like
var blah:Class;
you don't have to use import, you can also use:
var blah:com.package.Class;
maybe it's not serializing a value properly?
there are a few known issues with it in fp8, mainly newline elements...
more info here:
http://codinginparadise.org/weblog/2006/02/how-to-speed-up-flash-8s.html
On May 16, 2006, at 6:21 PM, eric dolecki wrote:
Its been called to my attention at
the express install feature (or simply trying to
download it direct from their site). However, when I use our
remote server to get it, not from my own personal broadband
connection, there is no problem. Does anyone (Geoff Stearns,
perhaps?) know how I could rig up the express install code
here's more info on the second link, and other techniques you can use:
http://blog.deconcept.com/2006/03/13/modern-approach-flash-seo/
On May 10, 2006, at 7:45 AM, Michael Stuhr wrote:
Kevin Boyd (MMCR) schrieb:
Client wants to detect if flash installed and then jump to a HTML
based site
there were some hiccups last monday / tuesday when they switched to
the adobe server, but they were all fixed up as of wednesday i think.
you could use this page as another test:
http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/expressinstall.html
On May 5, 2006, at 12:02 PM, Asai wrote:
Is anyone
i just tested it, and the download part worked fine, but when the
install was finished, it didn't redirect me back to the original page...
they said they were still working on that part on wednesday, so
hopefully it will be all fixed soon.
On May 5, 2006, at 12:19 PM, Asai wrote:
It
try setting the wmode pararmeter on the swf file to 'opaque'
that might work.
On May 3, 2006, at 12:01 PM, Éric Thibault wrote:
I all!!!
Here is my little problem : I have an html page that contains, on
the left side a list of SWF files and on the right side an iframe
to play those SWF.
try bumping it up to 31fps and see how it works then.
i'm getting about 24 on my browser (firefox on osx 10.4)
On May 2, 2006, at 10:37 AM, Michael Kønig wrote:
At this link there is a swf embeded in a html with a 5 line script
that measures fps:
http://www.fla10.com/test/test.html
The
looks like the download url is fixed now, but the redirect after the
install is done isn't working yet...
On May 1, 2006, at 3:38 PM, Geoff Stearns wrote:
Adobe is changing the dns/severs that the expressinstall lives
on... and they are having some issues with it right now.
i'd recomment
this page has a list of all the stuff:
http://www.123flashchat.com/flash/20_publish16.html
On Apr 27, 2006, at 1:57 PM, Alejandro Diaz wrote:
Hello again everyone,
Does anyone know of any documentation or explanation about some of the
variables in the Flash HTML template files?
For
in that list that were part of $PO/E, like quality, etc.
but that
link you sent me had the information I needed for that.
Thanks!
-Alex
On 4/27/06, Geoff Stearns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
this page has a list of all the stuff:
http://www.123flashchat.com/flash/20_publish16.html
oh and you should use swfobject to embed your stuff anyway :)
http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/
On Apr 27, 2006, at 3:41 PM, Alejandro Diaz wrote:
y, it always remain
very short). But I will certainly take your advice
___
i've seen a jsfl that you can run to move all the text fields in a
movie up/down .. but other than that i think you are screwed. (or
maybe you could use a different font?)
On Apr 26, 2006, at 11:11 AM, Kevin Newman wrote:
Hello,
I don't know if this is the right place for this kind of
, since it happens with OpenType and converted fonts (from mac).
I really think this is a bug in Flash, since as I've mentioned, I
don't have a problem with any other software using these fonts.
Oh well, I guess I'm stuck moving the fonts up and down. :-(
Thanks,
Kevin N.
Geoff Stearns wrote
you could just use SWFObject - it will work with flash stuff in
layers/divs/whatever.
http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/
(that amerasoftware page links to my blog at the bottom as well as an
alternative)
On Apr 24, 2006, at 2:20 PM, Michael F. Hiatt wrote:
All,
I'm trying to
i'm just reading this now... but here's how to fix all your problems:
1) as for 'getting the movie' - since you are using FlashObject, it's
really easy, just use document.getElementById();
once you call fo.write() you can get the reference to the movie and
you don't have to get it again -
flash satay is bad news - it breaks your params sometimes (in older
safari versions) and JAWS will ignore your flash content.
you should use something like FlashObject instead*.
or SWFObject, etc. etc.
http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/
On Apr 21, 2006, at 3:31 PM, Karina Steffens
as i stated in another mail in another thread, using the 'object tag
only' methods is very buggy and can cause lots of headaches...
JAWS will not read the Flash content, and some older browser will
ignore the param tags, so you can't use flashvars or specifiy wmode
or other parameters.
you could do this with flashobject really easily.
just call fo.write() whenever you want and it will replace the object
you target with your flash movie.
On Apr 20, 2006, at 11:04 AM, Kevin Newman wrote:
I prefer solutions that try to hide IE's lack of conformity, like
Dean Edwards's IE
include and a stylesheet takes care of all
object activation. It's a bit brute force, but it should get the
job done if you are looking for a quick fix and are using static
embedded html. If anyone has any ideas on how to make this more
robust, please let me know. :-)
Kevin N.
Geoff
actually didn't check it out that thoroughly. I'll take
a look some time.
Why would it break params, if you happen to know off hand?
Thanks. :-)
Kevin N.
Geoff Stearns wrote:
doesn't this method break flashvars and other params?
On Apr 20, 2006, at 1:23 PM, Kevin Newman wrote:
I didn't
If anyone is interested, I gave a presentation to the minnesota flash
user group last night about FlashObject, and it included a bit of
Eolas info in it.
it was basically a general rundown of the benefits of using
FlashObject and a primer for getting started using it.
view it here:
. :-)
Kevin N.
Geoff Stearns wrote:
you could do this with flashobject really easily.
just call fo.write() whenever you want and it will replace
the object
you target with your flash movie.
On Apr 20, 2006, at 11:04 AM, Kevin Newman wrote:
I prefer solutions that try to hide IE's lack
In every case i've heard of, checking the 'disable script debugging'
has fixed it.
If you can reproduce your issue of always having the 'click to
activate' box showing up, even when all the known bugs are accounted
for, I'm sure Microsoft would like to hear about it.
There is also a nice
missing something fundamental here, or I
haven't
articulated the problem well enough.
Thanks Geoff
John
On 4/17/06, Geoff Stearns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Since nobody really answered this, here you go:
Neither one is really 'better' - they both do pretty much exactly the
same thing. Some
I'll second the 'disable script debugging' issue... you should make
sure that the box is checked and quit/restart the browser window.
A reboot wouldn't hurt, but it shouldn't be necessary.
On Apr 17, 2006, at 7:33 PM, ryanm wrote:
Just for fun, you might want to see if this is limited to
well that's cool, thanks for the response..
the only thing i'd like to address was this part:
The FlashObject class would just embed swf files. Any additional
concerns
would be seperated from this class, where each class would
interface to
operate with one anotherAs it stands, all of
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