Comments on: SWFObject, née FlashObject 1.4 released

By: Geoff

Geoff — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 20:06:49 +0000

Good catch – not sure why nobody caught that before. The dojo shrinksafe added the brackets in, so I’ll be sure to report that as a bug to them.

I Just updated it in the 1.4.2 build, and will update that zip in a few minutes.

Also: I’m closing the comments on this post, if you need to comment on a bug, please remember to use the SWFObject mailing list instead.

By: Rudy

Rudy — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 19:46:48 +0000

Hi there, Geoff

I downloaded SWFObject1.4 to use in a hybrid site. While testing in Flash 7 in Firefox 1.0, I came across a small error when embed tags are written. This line (62 in the download version):

for(var key in _1a){_19+=[key]+”=”"+_1a[key]+”" “;}

does not write the attributes correctly. The [] around the first reference to ‘key’ should be omitted. EMBED tags asre written correctly after this change was made:

for(var key in _1a){_19+=key+”=”"+_1a[key]+”" “;}

Just giving you the head’s up. Great work!

By: James

James — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 09:58:31 +0000

I’m new to Flash and have found this very helpful… but I only have Flash MX 2004 and not version 8 and tried open the so_tester.fla but it says “Unexpected file format” I assume that this file is a version 8 file. Can someone provide a version which will work in MX 2004?

By: Geoff

Geoff — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 16:13:05 +0000

Yes, but the Flash Player will think that the & signs are the start of a new variable, so you have to escape them - change them to %26 or just use this instead: so.addVariable("forwardTo", encodeURIComponent(“http://www.example.com/?name=value&name=value"));

By: James

James — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 16:10:49 +0000

Is it possible to pass a url into the flash movie using swfobject which also contains name/value pairs? For example
so.addVariable(“forwardTo”, “http://www.example.com/?name=value&name=value”); At the momemt the flash movie only gets this much http://www.example.com/?name=value so is there a way to get round the problem of passing the & character?

By: SPACEMAN

SPACEMAN — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 12:09:58 +0000

Really i have been changing my swf through embeded code for like 3 yrs now, Why is this called new update? geezz! u can do that by just using wmode! damn yo! lol!

By: oliver

oliver — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 16:00:41 +0000

this is just great, Geoff!
thanks a lot and keep up your good work!

By: scripts

scripts — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 14:20:09 +0000

Updated my XP and all the sites i used this in turned for flash turned up with nothing anymore

By: rob

rob — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 20:26:16 +0000

Any plans to code this awsome script as straight asp?

By: Psyche

Psyche — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 19:29:21 +0000

Okay, i found why my “@” won’t appear. It seems that textfields go crazy when wmode is set to “transparent” (or “opaque”), running on firefox. The only way i found to avoid this mysterious thing is simply not to use wmode when using textfields :P
If anyone got an idea :/

By: Geoff

Geoff — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 14:05:59 +0000

I don’t know anyone with an OS 9 machine to test it on, so I have never tested it on that. It does work in ie5 on OS X, though.

Since IE5 is a dead browser, and OS 9 is also a dead OS, I don’t plan on making it compattible unless the fix is something very simple that doesn’t add much size to the swfobject.js file.

By: gc

gc — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 13:55:37 +0000

does anyone know if swfObject is supposed to work on mac os 9 ? on Internet Explorer 5 it shows nothing (JS is enabled)

By: Tony

Tony — Wed, 31 May 2006 15:11:43 +0000

Geoff: I didn’t know you could do that in css and so easily too. You learn something new every day, cheers.

By: Geoff

Geoff — Wed, 31 May 2006 14:00:39 +0000

Psyche: I’m not sure what it could be. You could try sending your information to the SWFObject mailing list, (put together a test page first so we can look at it).

Tony: Sounds cool, but I think I prefer to control stuff like that in the stylesheet of the page.

By: Tony

Tony — Wed, 31 May 2006 13:45:58 +0000

I've added the feature so that you can have a minimum width and height of the window. i.e. If your movie width & height is 100% and the window is too small for you, this will add the scrollbars and fix the movie to the set size. My javascript is a bit basic (sorry) but it seems to work, can you guys test it as well and see what you think? The .js file is here. You can use it like this:

By: Psyche

Psyche — Tue, 30 May 2006 19:34:51 +0000

Sorry to ask my question again but i’m afraid it wasn’t read because of all those trackbacks… !
(my question was about the @ letter in textarea)
Thanks a lot !

By: Psyche

Psyche — Tue, 30 May 2006 01:25:15 +0000

Hi !
I have a problem with textfield, when i put an swf on web via swfobject function, i just cant tape an @ inside my textarea, and when i publish the same swf, but with the good old method, it works !
Does anyone got a solution ?
i searched on previous comments, but didn’t find an answer.
Thanks !

By: Moises Kirsch

Moises Kirsch — Thu, 25 May 2006 23:37:17 +0000

Does anyone know if there is a similar method for java applets?

Or would it be to hard to do something simiral? I really dont have to much experience with javascript.

Thanks.

By: Geoff

Geoff — Wed, 24 May 2006 15:27:27 +0000

Juan: You don't need to add anything to the js code to do that, you just need to add the parameter like you would any other parameter: so.addParam("wmode", "opaque"); (or 'transparent')

By: Juan Mendez

Juan Mendez — Wed, 24 May 2006 15:23:24 +0000

sorry, I cannot add the script, is bitting all the tags.