Comments on: 100% height and 100% width XHTML Flash embed

By: Geoff

Geoff — Sat, 05 Feb 2005 21:32:20 +0000

If you are talking about hiding flash content that is outside of the stage area, then yes, you can just cover it with something inside the Flash movie, or mask your content.

By: Pete

Pete — Sat, 05 Feb 2005 20:39:23 +0000

So this is probably a noob question, I wouldn’t claim otherwise. I assume that between this and the flashobject.js, there’s a way to display the movie without the outside-the-edges, artboard overflow stuff, right? Problem is, now that I can’t use the Dreamweaver tools to modify the Flash content, I’m kinda lost on where to start. I’ve searched through script and can’t tell where the switch might be.

Quick fix would to just draw blank boxes over the out side of the stage. That way any content that falls off the stage would be hidden under this ‘mask’

By: Xychtopedia Brutallica

Xychtopedia Brutallica — Tue, 01 Feb 2005 11:35:27 +0000

XHTML kompatibilní definice Flash objektu
Dnes jsem řešil, jak docílit XHTML kompatibilního zápisu objektu s Flashem. Začalo to tím, že XHTML nezná tag EMBED. Navíc pokud chci objekt s Flashem definovat přímo v HTML a ne v trojboji TABLE/TR/TD a přitom chci, aby měl 100% výšku …

By: Geoff

Geoff — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 17:01:08 +0000

I’m not sure what you mean about the ‘outside-the-edges artboard overflow.’

Do you mean the area outside of the stage when you are in the Flash authoring environment? There’s really no way to restrict the display of that since users can make their browsers whatever size they want - really long and short, or tall and skinny, which will usually allow them to see past the edges of the stage. You do have some control over the scaling of the Flash movie by using the noscale parameter, and you can make the stage appear to be larger than it really is by extending your objects out past the edges of the stage.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 16:02:45 +0000

So this is probably a noob question, I wouldn’t claim otherwise. I assume that between this and the flashobject.js, there’s a way to display the movie without the outside-the-edges, artboard overflow stuff, right? Problem is, now that I can’t use the Dreamweaver tools to modify the Flash content, I’m kinda lost on where to start. I’ve searched through script and can’t tell where the switch might be.

Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks

By: Geoff

Geoff — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 03:32:53 +0000

Heh, I actually spent this morning setting up IE 5 and IE 5.5 for another project on a test PC at the office. So I checked this on those, and it works great on both.

By: Bart N.

Bart N. — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 02:47:38 +0000

Hey Geoff, you can get older stand alone IE versions at http://www.skyzyx.com/downloads/ if you want to test :)

By: Arnold

Arnold — Mon, 10 Jan 2005 17:58:46 +0000

Geoff, speaking of flash, you’d be proud of me today, after about four years, I’ve created and called my first function!!!
I thought this program was just for animating ;)

By: Geoff

Geoff — Fri, 07 Jan 2005 14:12:33 +0000

Thanks… the FlashObject stuff is posted here.

By: quixote

quixote — Fri, 07 Jan 2005 05:26:53 +0000

Flashobject.html shows walker.swf just fine under IE 5.5 on a PC running Win98 SE with service pack 3 (An old Sony Vaio laptop, actually, so the IE is “customized,” whatever that means. Mainly, it seems to mean that it runs slower than molasses.) Firefox 1.0 on the same system runs it about twice as fast.

Flashobject.js is truly a great bit of code. I’m using it on a new home page that has animated aliens. (I write science fiction.) I’d originally wanted to have a series of animations that would play in sequence, after starting at a random one. Apparently, this is simply Not Done. I can’t believe it. My javascript abilities are nowhere near being able to code that, but it seems like something a lot of people might find useful.

Maybe it’s something you’d consider posting as (yet another) public service?

By: tobyjoe

tobyjoe — Mon, 03 Jan 2005 21:15:17 +0000

Geoff - I’ve been checking your site lately and it’s nice to see that you’re getting to work on fun stuff and that the block is pushing so hard in the right direction these days. Most folks resist adoption of doing things right. Props.

By: lincoln

lincoln — Mon, 03 Jan 2005 00:51:22 +0000

You’ve got some wonderful write-up’s here. This one, as with the JS embedding, are excellent and things i’ve been keen on learning about. Consider yourself bookmarked! Keep it up!

By: Xychtopedia Brutallica - XHTML kompatibilní definice Flash objektu

Xychtopedia Brutallica - XHTML kompatibilní definice Flash objektu — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

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