I'm am sorry to hear that you are now bald :) Does the issue/fix described in FAQ#21 work dor you? http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/wiki/faq
Aran On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 11:11 AM, gmccomb <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'll try my best to keep this short and succinct. > > I have a Flash FLV player written in ActionScript 2 and Flash 8 that > works well when using standard OBJECT embedding, but exhibits unusual > (and breaking) behavior under SWFObject. Specifically, I find I have > to delay the code inside the SWF by at least 20-30 milliseconds or > else things like reading the Stage.width and height do not work (they > report 0, not even the un-resized size described in the OBJECT tag). > This ONLY occurs when running the app in SWFO. > > Because of this, movieclips that rely on being sized by the Stage > dimensions never appear, because at least one or both of their h/w > dimensions is 0. The code I have to delay is the part that sizes these > movieclips, in order for the Stage dimensions, as set in the SWFO > properties, to be properly reflected. > > Here's where it gets very strange: If I capture the OBJECT code that > SWFObject generates and passes to the DIV holder, and copy/paste that > into a page, it works perfectly every time. It's only when SWFObject > is running as JavaScript does the problem occur. (And no, > defer="defer" in the JS call doesn't help...) > > The issue involves both SWFO 1.5 and the latest 2.2, using copy-paste- > code directly from the documentation (changing only the swf name). > Static publishing works. It's only when the code uses dynamic > publishing does it occur. It happens across many browsers and OS's, > and all the Flash versions I bothered to try (9.0.115 to current). It > affects IE7 the most, where the timing issues cause a mis-load about > 90% of the time; on Firefox 3.0.11 it works 90% of the time. > > So far I have rewritten portions of my SWF to accommodate this > problem, but every once in a while (under Chrome especially) the error > will affect a movieclip that is loaded when the FLV metadata is read. > I'm also not happy having to delay the construction of the player more > than the 35-50 milliseconds needed to avoid the problem, because the > original (ugly) Stage appearance of the bare player shows through very > briefly. (OK, I can turn that off my setting visibility off, but it's > principle here.) > > I'd really like to know what may be causing this behavior so that I > can more effectively work around it. Thanks in advance for any > insight. I no longer have any hair because of this... > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
