I am basically a Flash designer with only a little ability in javascript and html. The infamous double click before you can use flash content was ruining the look and feel of my websites so I was incredibly grateful to discover swfobject. However, it is worth a lot to me to be able to have it installed in Flash 8 automatically in the publish feature and so I downloaded and installed the extension recommended in the deconcept page by Paul Spitzer at Fluid Flash Blog. (http://flog.fluid.com/experiments/swfobject-extension) I got it to publish the html page for my swf OK but what it loaded was a statement telling me that I needed to download flash player 8 and that my javascript was disabled and I should enable it. (I have player 8 and javascript is enabled) Also it had that old technique where you click on the bar at the top to enable and then a warning box comes up and you can click it and then it downloaded my swf. I don't care about getting my viewers to download a new version of flash. Most of them seem to have an adequate version. But I do need that double click to go away. I looked at the html page in the folder I downloaded with the install for the extension but I didn't know enough code to change it. I am assuming, perhaps incorrectly, that the installer is pointing to that html and a change in it might fix the problem. Or, it could be that the change has to be made in the swfobject.js file which is referenced also. Can anyone help? All I want is the beautiful, seamless flash to come up like we used to have in the old days. Thanks. It is awesome that you all have taken time to help with all this. It is really appreciated.
since this forum is for swfobject, not the extension, i don't know if anyone here has ever used it. i recommend contacting the extension's author (Paul Spitzer) about the issue.
personally i'd avoid using the extension since swfobject is very easy to use code-wise. also, i don't know how the extension would know what kind of alternate content to place in the target div, would know how to deal with multiple swfs on one page, or even how to add variables for FlashVars. seems easier to just stick with the swfobject code.
then again, i've never used the HTML flash publishes anyway... :)
After briefly reading the extension home page, you are aware that it doesn't include the swfobject.js file required for swfopject to work? You need to download it from http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/. The extension assumes you have already placed the swfobject.js file in the same folder as your HTML and .swf file. Try that. If it still doesn't work, then I'm with Philip - read the tut and hand code it (it's like 6 lines in total :)