swfobject

swfObject + scriptaculous Autocompleter = Fail

For some reason the combination of swfobject.js and script.aculo.us Ajax.Autocompleter on the same page causes the latter to fail. Autocompleter doesn't make its Ajax request. A separate Ajax control on the same page that uses Ajax.Updater doesn't seem to have the same problem. ...

Flash inside a scrolling div - IE6 bug

I have div containing a list of flash objects. The list is long so I've set the div height to 400 and overflow to auto. This works fine on FF but on IE6 only the first 5 flash objects that are visible work. The rest of the flash objects that are initially outside the viewable area are empty when I scroll down. The swfs are loaded ok be...

Swf object doesn't seem to work inside a Blogger post

Any ideas why? On the following link, where it says "So..." there should be an embedded swf. http://blog.iainlobb.com/2008/10/wrong-door-creating-papervision3d.html ...

How to capture an event trigger when a flash movie successfully loaded?

I'm currently using jQuery, as well as swfObject to dynamically embed the swf movie into my web page. I currently having a problem on embeding immem's music player into my web page, as their embed code doesn't have any loading screen. So, when I replace the element using swfObject, that area will generally blank. In worst case, it means...

Flash loads twice workaround?

While investigating a reported problem with my site loading slowly, I came across an issue where I noticed (via firebug) that my flash file was loading twice. After a bit of investigation I tracked it down to a firefox bug combined with the usage of SWFObject 2.0. Now, I noticed on the thread that someone mentioned that you can workaro...

Changing arbitrary flash objects wmode to transparent

I need to change wmode of arbitrary flash objects to transparent from external js file to make sure they don't hide menus without using Jquery or similar libs. In FF I use getElementsByTagName("embed") and set attribute. It seems to work well. Specifically I'm having trouble with object set by swfObject library In IE7. swfObject creat...

swfobject getFlashPlayerVersion does not work in IE

swfobject.getFlashPlayerVersion doesn't work in IE, any alternatives? ...

SWF object not playing my XML Playlist.

Hello, I've tried to include youtubetune player to social network, but for somereason it wont play the xml files it should play. I got around issue that the tracks dint even appear by uploading the neccessary swf files and swfobject.js file to my server. Now the tracks appears to the player, but the player wont play them. You can see my...

CSS Menu does not appear over flash

I have a drop-down/multi-level CSS menu on a page. The menu however doesn't appear over a flash chart I have. The apparent fix seems to be to put wmode:transparent (or opaque), but that doesn't work for me. I have also tried setting the z-level in the CSS to very high values (2000) but that doesn't work either. In addition, I'm using op...

SWFObject Flash Player Script: Wode = Transparent?

I'm using the SWFObject script (http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject) to embedd a flash object into the following page: http://parramatta.pjgallaghers.com.au/_flashvr/test The flash is from an external supplier and I don't have a whole lot of control over it apart from the embed script. For some reason once the Flash has finished loading...

SWFObject (1.5 and 2.1) does not allow full-screen in IE

Does anybody know why and/or how to work around this without scraping SWFObject? Many thanks, T EDIT : Sorry, my fault the alowFullScreen param was set to "true" instead of "always" ...

Can I destroy a flash object created with SWFObject?

I am using YUI's Dialog control to show a Flash movie on my site in a popup. I am creating the Flash control using SWFObject. This creates a JW Player instance for my video. I was quite surprised to see no easy way to destroy the movie in the SWF Object FAQ. When the YUI panel destroys itself it leaves an orphaned video playing. What ...

Alternatives to swfobject for embedding flashplayer

Does anybody know if there's a better alternative to swfobject? I actually like swfobject, I just wanted to hear if anybody found something better. Or maybe it is the best way. If you do not know swfobject you can find it here: http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/ ...

SWFObject Audio Player does not play when minimized

I have a small problem with the SWFObject on my web page. The behavior is that when the flash player is covered up by another tab or minimized it does not start to play the audio until the tab gets focus again and is visible. It is using the 2.1 version of SWFObject from http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/. In order to verify this beh...

Registering Javascript in a cached control

I have a user control that is cached and as part of this control, javascript for loading a swfobject is written to the page. I've tried using ClientScript.RegisterStartupScript to write the javascript to the page, however, when rendered from the cache, the javascript is no longer included. This means the swfobject is not loaded. Curre...

SWFObject v2 - How to remove annoying 'Click To Activate' message in IE7?

I am using SWFObject version 2, and using its dynamic publishing feature. Typical JavaScript code to embed flash like (based on its featured example from its documentation page): swfobject.embedSWF(.. However, in IE7, I always see 'Click to Activate' message. I heard that SWFObject was supposed to cater this issue, however, my experi...

Swf object flash movie shows up in my thickbox

The swf movie sits on top of everything including the stuff that comes up in thickbox. I have no idea why this is happening. This problem is only on IE7 (so far) but is likely to be in at least IE6 (I don't have IE6 to test on). BElow is the code I am using to embed my flash movie: <div id="flash">You need the Flash Player to view this...

capture right click through Javascript, withouth wmode

Flash player has a bug in using anything other than wmode="window" in Firefox/Chrome when using any other language than English. This bug is reported and not fixed yet http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP-501 The issue can be seen better here - http://www.5etdemi.com/blog/archives/2005/06/firefox-wmodetransparent-is-completely-screw...

Resize an SWF when loading it with SWFObject

I'm loading an SWF movie into an HTML page using SWFObject. I want to resize this SWF dynamically. How can SWFObject help? I'm sure I don't have to write my own solution. ...

SWFobject on top of JS tooltips

http://richarcade.com/play/gunrun I'm using swfobject.js (richarcade.com/swfobject.js) to display Flash content, and wz_tooltip.js (richarcade.com/wz_tooltip.js) to display hovered tooltips. The problem is that the 'similar games' tooltips show up behind the flash game. Any ideas? ...