in order to embed a SWF in a document, the document must have the SWFObject
script in its <head>.
if a script in your iframe is trying to embed a SWF in the parent HTML file,
the parent must first have swfobject.js linked in the <head>.
you should then be able to reference swfobject through the window object:
var targetID = "myID";
//Create and append the empty div
var myDiv = window.parent.document.createElement("div");
myDiv.setAttribute("id", targetID);
window.parent.document.body.appendChild(myDiv);
//embed a swf into the empty div
window.parent.swfobject.embedSWF("foo.swf", targetID, "550px", "400px",
"8");
gotchas:
1. as i mentioned, this will only work if the parent has the swfobject.js
file in the <head>.
2. this will only work if the iframe and the parent are on the same domain.
if they're from different domains, cross-domain security restrictions will
kill your script (the iframe won't be able to access the parent and
vice-versa).
- philip
PS: i didn't test the code, so there could be a bug or two, but you should
get the idea.
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Getify Solutions, Inc. <[email protected]>wrote:
>
> I think you missed the big change in my edit of your code. You don't need a
> reference to the DOM object itself. You need the ID ("something" in the
> example). that you assign to that DOM object. If you don't have the ID, you
> cannot use SWFObject.
>
> --Kyle
>
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Bertrand" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 12:45 PM
> To: "SWFObject" <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: Referencing an element in call to embedSWF
>
> >
> >> Try this, as it should work:
> >>
> >> var myDiv = document.createElement('div');
> >> myDiv.id = 'something';
> >> document.body.appendChild(myDiv);
> >> swfobject.embedSWF('flash.swf', 'something', ....);
> >>
> >
> > Unfortunately, as specified in my first post, I'm inserting the div in
> > the parent document from a script that resides in an iFrame by doing
> >
> > var target = window.parent.document;
> > target.body.appendChild(myDiv);
> >
> > Meaning that I can modify the DOM of the parent from the iFrame and
> > append the div, but I can't just put the reference to myDiv in the
> > call to SWFObject, since that div resides in the parent,
> > not the iFrame from where embedSWF is called.
> > Thus my need to be able to specify a DOM path to the parent, something
> > like embedSWF('myFlash.swf', target.getElementById('myDiv'),....)
> >
> > I' not sure if I'm being clear here, English isn't my native
> > language :)
> >
> >> As for the jQuery extension thing, here's a jQuery plugin for SWFObject,
> >> though I'm not so sure on how much of its internals are really SWFObject
> >> natives:
> >>
> >> http://jquery.thewikies.com/swfobject/
> >>
> >> (bonus, that plugin even has its own theme song! listen and enjoy!)
> >
> > >
> >
>
> >
>
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