We are using swfobject and are very happy with it. It has been absolutely great. I have not had to do anything except use it.
We are facing one problem though with firefox. I am showing a movie (an audio-video or just audio broadcaster or player) and to manage screen real estate I am giving user an option to hide the movie. The problem I am facing is that in IE the movie continues to run while its hidden, i.e. the user continues to broadcast or receive the audio-video or audio, where as in firefox the movie stops when hidden and user can not broadcast or receive.
Has anyone encountered this problem. Any suggestions, ideas are most welcome.
I am using gwt for the client pages. I tried two approaches, 1. to do moviePanel.setVisible(false) and 2. containerPanel.remove(moviePanel) to hide the movie. Correspondingly setVisible(true) and add(moviePanel) to show it again.
I tried to move the movie panel off screen. I am afraid I was not entirely certain what you mean by off screen in terms of gwt but I tried to move the panel to some location by setting the 'left' and 'top' style attributes on the DOM element. I tried negative numbers and large positive numbers. but it didn't work. The browser simply adds scrollbars. We want the movie to be simply not visible. I have also already tried gwt popups. The popups also show the same issue. When I hide the popup the movie stops. Please help.