[SWFObject] Opera and Firefox

Wed Aug 16 03:53:34 PDT 2006

Chris.

Attached is a modified version of swfObject which does what you want (I got
home and had a few minutes to actually work on it :) The query param
functionality will work as it always has. Just call the below setSkip()
method to true if you want to skip detection. You don't need to do anything
if you want detection as normal.

I have added two methods to the swfObject class (via the prototype) :

1. setter

setSkip (doskip)

Parameters: 

doskip - A Boolean value which defines whether to skip detection (true), or
include detection (false) 

2. getter

getSkip();

Returns: 

a Boolean value of the skip variable

usage:

<script type="text/javascript">
   var so = new SWFObject("some.swf", "mymovie", "200", "100", "7",
"#336699");
   so.setSkip(true);
   so.write("flashcontent");
   alert("skip detetction: " + so.getSkip());
</script>

I have no idea if this version is useful to anyone else, but anyway...

Cheers,
Aran

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From: swfobject-bounces at lists.deconcept.com
[mailto:swfobject-bounces at lists.deconcept.com] On Behalf Of Chris Colman
Sent: Wednesday, 16 August 2006 6:21 PM
To: swfobject at lists.deconcept.com
Subject: Re: [SWFObject] Opera and Firefox

Ok, I've now come up with a better approach than my last attempt for
handling cases where NO Flash player is installed. It has the following
behaviour:

1.	Works generically - ie., the http link doesn't have to be tailored
for each page that it appears in - it's generated by javascript. 

2.	Requires the user to click on the "Install Flash" link - which
typically will not happen very often so not such a problem. 

3.	Does not add detectflash=false parameter to URL when the flash
player is installed and working fine (unlike my previous solution!) 

4.	Automatically chooses the correct delimiter (? Or &) based on
whether the URL already has parameters or not. 

I just add the following code within the <div> where the movie is to go:
     <script type="text/javascript">
                 // determine the type of delimiter required
                 var delimiter=(document.location.search.indexOf("?")< 0) ?
"?":"&"; 

                 // write out the link with the detectflash=false param
appended
                 document.writeln("<a
href=\""+document.URL+delimiter+"detectflash=false\">Install Flash</a>");
     </script>

We'll be enhancing the AnFX Flash animation tool so that all HTML generated
by AnFX will output the above additional Javascript so that the correct
"bypass detect" link will be displayed. The link displayed will be "Install
Flash" instead of "bypass Flash detection" because in my opinion it is more
user friendly. The new AnFX release should be available within a couple of
days.

Chris

Chris

quickly looking through the swfObject code, you can see that you can set it
as the last param in the constructor:

deconcept.SWFObject = function(swf, id, w, h, ver, c, useExpressInstall,
quality, xiRedirectUrl, redirectUrl, detectKey)

which means you should be able to do something like:

var so = new SWFObject("movie.swf", "mymovie", "200", "100", "7", "#336699",
false, "high", "", "", false);
so.write("flashcontent");

I actually tried that but on reading of the SWFObject source code realized
that the detectKey parameter is used to specify an alternate name for the
detechflash parameter. It doesn't actually specify the value of the
detectflash parameter.

I've done a bit of a crazy thing and actually added, via javascript, code
that sets the detechflash variable from within the HTML file itself but it
is not a desirable solution: the URL now always appears with the
?detectflash=false parameter which doesn't look good. Here's the code if
you're interested:

I either can add this to the main body of the page or within the <div
id=mymovie> but either way the URL in the address bar gets detectflash=false
- even when Flash is installed.

<script type="text/javascript">
         var addStr="";
         if (window.location.search.length>0)
         {
                     if (window.location.search.indexOf("detectflash")<0)
                     {
                                 addStr = "&detectflash=false";
                     }
         }
         else
                     addStr="?detectflash=false";

         if (addStr.length!=0)
         {
                     window.location.search+=addStr;
                     addStr="";
         }
         //document.writeln(window.location.search);
</script>

I need something that's very generic because we produce an animation product
that generates SWFs and so we don't know what the user's final URL is going
to be, This makes it hard to generate the HTML tag with the correct "ByPass
flash detect link".

Maybe there is a way to use javascript to generate the correct link heh? Now
there's a good idea! I might try that.

I am actually unsure as what to pass in for the no value xiRedirectUrl and
redirectUrl values without testing it, but if it is not an empty string (as
above), then you should be able to pass in null.

var so = new SWFObject("movie.swf", "mymovie", "200", "100", "7", "#336699",
false, "high", null, null, false);

Geoff, any quick clarification you can add to this?

Cheers,
Aran

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From: swfobject-bounces at lists.deconcept.com
[mailto:swfobject-bounces at lists.deconcept.com] On Behalf Of Chris Colman
Sent: Wednesday, 16 August 2006 3:57 PM
To: swfobject at lists.deconcept.com
Subject: Re: [SWFObject] Opera and Firefox
How do I get the effect of detectflash=false without having to make sure the
page was requested with the ?detectflash=false parameter?

Chrisco
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