[SWFObject] Opera and Firefox

Wed Aug 16 15:47:49 PDT 2006

That looks very useful! Thanks. I wonder if Geoff might incorporate that
into the main distribution.

Let go of what you've got hold of, without worrying if you have hold of
something else. 
                -- Chris' new rule! 
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From: swfobject-bounces at lists.deconcept.com
[mailto:swfobject-bounces at lists.deconcept.com] On Behalf Of Aran Rhee
Sent: Wednesday, 16 August 2006 8:54 PM
To: swfobject at lists.deconcept.com
Subject: Re: [SWFObject] Opera and Firefox

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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