@Alex. Cheers for chiming in. This definitely works, as we have used this technique on another project. You can (optionally) use the SWFFit js project to dynamically resize the swf area as well.
Aran On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Alex Harui <[email protected]> wrote: > If you load the SWF into a wrapper swf, you can just use loaderInfo to > get the dimensions. I think you can then use ExternalInterface to resize > the swfObject. > > > > Alex Harui > > Flex SDK Developer > > Adobe Systems Inc. <http://www.adobe.com/> > > Blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On > Behalf Of *Aran Rhee > *Sent:* Tuesday, September 29, 2009 3:56 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: How to embed swf with it's original, unknown size? > > > > Chris. > > > > If you don;t know the dimensions of the swfs beforehand, then there is no > way on the client-side from the page to get the dimensions. You will either > need to use server side tools: > > > > PHP: > > > http://www.webmaster-talk.com/php-forum/160440-simple-php-to-find-swf-dimensions.html > > > > ASP: > > http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/webtech/tips/t102001-1.shtml > > > > Or call a util on the server like: > > http://www.swftools.org/swfdump.html > > > > > > The other way would be to load the swf into a wrapper swf and get it's > dimensions using a class like SWFReader: > > http://www.senocular.com/index.php?id=2.43 > > > http://www.senocular.com/flash/actionscript.php?file=ActionScript_3.0/com/senocular/utils/SWFReader.as > > > > > > So there you go, many options for you to choose from... > > > > > > Aran > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 7:15 AM, chris27 <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Did you get a solution for this? I'm having exactly the same > problem! Been tearing my hair out - I can't believe there is no > simple solution to this. I don't know what dimensions each SWF will > be, and I don't have any control over the Actionscript code. I have a > container div and I'm adding the SWF to this using SWFObject 2.0. If I > use '100%' for the width and height properties, the SWF doesn't > display at all, as its containing div has no width or height set in > the CSS. > > WHY CAN'T FLASH HANDLE THIS??? I don't want a re-sizable SWF, I just > want my containing HTML element to expand to the width and height of > each SWF as it was when it was published! It seems that you can't > dynamically add a SWF to an HTML page without giving it explicit > dimensions, and there is no simple way to find out what they should be > beforehand. > > > On Aug 29, 11:18 pm, danyalejandro <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi > > > > I made an SWF that loads data from a database and dispays the results > > as a vertical list; therefore, the height of the swf varies depending > > on the stored data. > > > > Whitout using SWFObject, I have no problems embedding the SWF. It's > > height varies depending on how much content it's displaying. This is > > my desired behaviour. > > > > When I try to dynamically insert said SWF in my pages with swfobject, > > I can only see it if I specify a fixed height. If I try using > > width="100%", the swf dissapears. > > > > How can I tell SWFObject to use the swf's original height? this is my > > relevant code (all of it is inside the <body>): > > > > <script type="text/javascript"> > > var flashvars = {}; > > var params = {}; > > params.play = "true"; > > params.loop = "false"; > > params.quality = "high"; > > params.wmode = "transparent"; > > params.allowscriptaccess = "sameDomain"; > > var attributes = {}; > > attributes.id = "MapaEstrategico"; > > attributes.name = "MapaEstrategico"; > > attributes.align = "middle"; > > swfobject.embedSWF("MapaEstrategico.swf", "mEstrategico", "768", > > "100%", "9.0.28", "expressInstall.swf", flashvars, params, > > attributes); > > </script> > > > > (...) > > > > <div id="mEstrategico" style="width: 764px; margin: 1px auto;" > > align="center"></div> > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
