Yep, I understand, but your id passed to flash was "ofc152299052", not the DOM id of "ofc152299052swf"...
Aran -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Patrick McKinnon Sent: Tuesday, 28 April 2009 1:23 PM To: SWFObject Subject: Re: AllowScriptAccess="always" doesn't work with a flashvar called "id" Yeah, I was was passing id to flashvars, I was just doing it inline with the {"id": "myid"} I've been beating on this some more, and I think it might be a bug in the actual SWF program. Please disregard for now... Thanks again! -Patrick On Apr 27, 9:55 pm, "Aran Rhee" <[email protected]> wrote: > I think you are a bit confused with how externalInterface and SWFObject use > the id property. > > The DOM id is what externalInterface uses to communicate with the swf. This > is also what is set in the 2nd param of embedSWF() (or overwritten with the > attributes object id property). > > If you want to pass into flash the id for external interface to call to for > some reason then you want something like: > (I have separated the flashvars out to make it easier to understand) > > var flashvars = {}; > Flashvars.id = "ofc152299052swf"; > > swfobject.embedSWF("/path/flash-chart.swf", "ofc152299052swf", 640, 300, > "9.0.0", "/path/expressInstall.swf", flashvars, params); > > This sets the DOM id to ofc152299052swf as well as ensuring that the > internal flash var is the same. > > Does this make sense? > > Aran > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > > Behalf Of Patrick McKinnon > Sent: Tuesday, 28 April 2009 12:40 PM > To: SWFObject > Subject: AllowScriptAccess="always" doesn't work with a flashvar called "id" > > I'm having trouble passing a flashvar called "id" to my flash > program. For some reason, when I use swfobject to embed the flash > object, I cannot access ExternalInterface flash callbacks regardless > of my AllowScriptAccess parameter. > > For example, with the following code I cannot access any flash > callbacks: > > <script type="text/javascript"> > swfobject.embedSWF("/toscawidgets/resources/tw.ofc.widgets/static/open- > flash-chart.swf", "ofc152299052swf", 640, 300, "9.0.0", "/toscawidgets/ > resources/tw.swfobject.widgets/static/expressInstall.swf", {"id": > "ofc152299052"}, {"AllowScriptAccess": "always"}) > </script> > > This is the DOM as it looks after the embedSWF: > > <object id="ofc152299052swf" width="640" height="300" > type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="/toscawidgets/resources/ > tw.ofc.widgets/static/open-flash-chart.swf" style="visibility: > visible;"> > <param name="AllowScriptAccess" value="always"/> > <param name="flashvars" value="id=ofc152299052"/> > </object> > > If I change the "id" parameter for the flashvarsObj argument to > "ids" (or anything other then "id" it seems), the ExternalInterface > callbacks work properly. This is non-ideal obviously because I'm > using a pre-compiled flash file, and can't easily change the expected > "id" flashvar. > > Interestingly, if I paste the updated DOM embed generated by swfobject > into a static html file, the callbacks work fine. > > Does anybody have a clue what might be happening? > > Thanks for your help, my apologies if this has already been answered, > its really hard to get useful search results for the word "id" ;-) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SWFObject" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/swfobject?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
