Oh yeah, that was intentional; I'm writing a TurboGears ToscaWidget to abstract away all the complexities of manipulating OpenFlashCharts from javascript.
The generated code is pretty ugly, but the actual interface in python is going to be super clean. ;-) Thanks again, you're attention to detail is impressive! -Patrick On Apr 27, 10:34 pm, "Aran Rhee" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
