Thanks Aran & Alex So you're saying that whilst there is no way to just stick a SWF directly into an HTML element and have it assume the correct default size, you can create another SWF into which you load the original SWF and use a Loader instance's loaderInfo to detect the dimensions of the 'content' SWF? That makes sense - then as you say it would be easy enough to use ExternalInterface to call a javascript function and pass it the correct width and height, which the javascript would then use to resize the HTML element that contains the SWF...
Cheers Chris On Sep 30, 1:25 am, Aran Rhee <[email protected]> wrote: > @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... > > > 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... > > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
