[SWFObject] Problem with SWFObject, ExternalInterface and Microsoft Windows Media Center

[Geoff Stearns]

Well, I've used SWFObject in a couple of MCE apps, and all has been  
fine.. but I'm not sure than any of them use the customviewport to  
show fullscreen stuff, though.

That article that you linked made me think of something though:

In FP9, some code was added in to 'clean up' the swfs on the page  
when the page unloads - if you are using external interface, the  
Flash player inserts a function in the page... I actually ended up  
rewriting the functions with SWFObject because they are a little  
buggy - if you have more than one swf on the page you get an out of  
memory error... but anyway...

what may work is this: try overwriting the functions that are  
inserted into the page - you can see how to do this if you look at  
the current swfobject code (ceck the uncompressed version) - this  
replaces the functions with my own, but you could just replace them  
with empty functions and see if that fixes it... the white screen  
might be the leftover space that the swf is taking up after their  
special script unloads it.

let me know if that doesn't fix it... i'm actually installing MCE in  
parallels right now to do some testing of our old apps (and I seem to  
remember another bug we had in a new MCE app that's just about  
finished).




On Nov 14, 2006, at 3:24 PM, Kareem Kouddous wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I am having a problem with an HTML Media Center Application (like  
> MTV's Overdrive or Comedy Central's Motherload) using SWFObject to  
> embed a flash movie that uses ExternalInterface. My application  
> uses the Custom Viewport to play video and if you go fullscreen and  
> then try and go back to the application the flash movie disappears  
> and is replaced with white background.
>
> - This may be related to this problem - http://blog.metawrap.com/ 
> blog/ 
> externalInterfaceUnderFlashPlayer9IsEvilTheWhiteScreenOfDeath.aspx
> - The problem occurs even if the swfobject.js is included in the  
> page but not used (as long as ExternalInterface is used for  
> javascript to flash communication).
>
> Has anyone else experienced this problem? If so, are there any  
> known workarounds (apart from going back to my custom way of  
> embedding the flash movie)? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kareem
>
>
>
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