[SWFObject] Standard Embed to SWFObject Converter / publish template

Wed Dec 6 15:30:27 PST 2006

Becky.

Thanks for the round up.

When I first joined the list (back in March), I posted a publishing
template. It seems that ubergeek.tv came up with almost exactly yhe same
solution a few months later. The only issues with templates are:

1. you can't package any external files (e.g. swfobject.js)
2. You can't add flash vars in the publish dialouge
3. You can't specify extra params like wmode individually (they are written
as a block with the vars $PO and $PE (params object / params embed))

The (default) path to put any HTML templates are : 
C:\Program Files\Macromedia\Flash 8\en\First Run\HTML

Below is the basics of the template I created (modify as you wish)

$TTSWFObject
$DS
Creates a SWFObject compatable HTML page.
$DF

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<!-- saved from url=(0013)about:internet -->
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
 <head>
 $CS
 <title>$TI</title>
 <script type="text/javascript" src="swfobject.js"></script>
 </head>

 <body bgcolor="$BG">

  <div id="flashcontent">
   If you don't have the required Flash Player Version, you will see this
text as alternative content
  </div>

  <script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
   // <![CDATA[
    var fo = new SWFObject($MO, "$TI", "$WI", "$HE", "$FV.$JR.$NR", "$BG");
    fo.write("flashcontent");
   // ]]>
  </script>

 </body>
</html>

BTW - Steve's page does do flashvars now :)

Cheers,
Aran

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From: swfobject-bounces at lists.deconcept.com
[mailto:swfobject-bounces at lists.deconcept.com] On Behalf Of Becky Kinney
Sent: Thursday, 7 December 2006 12:22 AM
To: swfobject at lists.deconcept.com
Subject: Re: [SWFObject] Standard Embed to SWFObject Converter

Interesting approach. I think if you were to add the flashvars, this could
be really useful. I don't know of any tool that will handle the flash vars
for me, so that would be really nice.

For plain vanilla conversion, it is probably easier to use the html template
approach. That is, pick a swfobject template from Flash's publishing
options. Of course, you have to have one installed, but there are several
out there already written. It might be interesting to have this group check
them out and report back on the relative merits of each. Here are a couple I
have just googled up:

http://flog.fluid.com/experiments/swfobject-extension/ : this one apparently
overwrites the default template. Not sure I'm happy about that, so I haven't
tried using it. An advantage is that it ships as an mxp, so is dead easy to
install

http://ubergeek.tv/article.php?pid=111 : you have to put this into the HTML
templates folder yourself, but the path is provided.

http://www.mail-archive.com/osflash@osflash.org/msg10917.html : this one has
a dead link to the template, but some good hints on how you could add the
swfobject code to your swfobject template without breaking it.

There are also a couple at the Flash Exchange. One is a macromedia active
content thing that uses their script, not Geoff's. But this one looks
intriguing in that it apparently lets you choose to use express install
without hand editing the html. 

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm#view=sn106
<http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm#view=sn106&viewName=Exchang
e%20Search%20Details&loc=en_us&authorid=0&page=0&scrollPos=0&subcatid=0&snid
=sn106&itemnumber=-1&extid=1030286&catid=0>
&viewName=Exchange%20Search%20Details&loc=en_us&authorid=0&page=0&scrollPos=
0&subcatid=0&snid=sn106&itemnumber=-1&extid=1030286&catid=0

Personally I use an html template that was given to me by a friend on
another listserv. I don't know that he has it posted anywhere. It did not
turn up on my google search.

Becky

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Steve Kamerman <mailto:kamermans at teratechnologies.net>  
To: swfobject at lists.deconcept.com 
Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 3:49 PM
Subject: [SWFObject] Standard Embed to SWFObject Converter

I wrote a script to convert the plain-jane OBJECT/EMBED code made by Flash
to SWFObject compliant code - I think it's pretty slick so I thought I would
post it for you all: http://devel.teratechnologies.net/swfhelp/

Right now it is very simple, and it doesn't support Flashvars parameters,
but if there is enough interest in this code, I'll keep working on it :-)

Steve Kamerman

Director of IT

Tera Technologies

www.teratechnologies.net

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