<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">the detectkey is just the string name for the parameter in case you ever wanted to change it from 'detectflash' to something else.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>so if for some reason you were already using 'detectflash' you could tell swfobject to use something different.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>as for passing empty values, the correct way to do this is to always pass 'null' as the value:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite" style="text-align: -khtml-left;"><SPAN class="578080407-16082006">var so = new SWFObject("movie.swf", "mymovie", "200", "100", "7", "#336699", false, "high", null, null);</SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>like so.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>as for the main question: I decided that showing the user a custom message instead of just displaying the little puzzle piece was a better user experience. which is why I direct people to go to the adobe site. this way they don't need to install any activex controls from your site that they might have trust issues with. or try to install plugins that they aren't sure about - since there are so many out there these days, will they really recognize and trust the flash player?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Aug 16, 2006, at 3:21 AM, Aran Rhee wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><SPAN class="578080407-16082006"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">Chris</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><SPAN class="578080407-16082006"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><SPAN class="578080407-16082006"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">quickly looking through the swfObject code, you can see that you can set it as the last param in the constructor:</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><SPAN class="578080407-16082006"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><SPAN class="578080407-16082006">deconcept.SWFObject = function(swf, id, w, h, ver, c, useExpressInstall, quality, xiRedirectUrl, redirectUrl, detectKey)</SPAN></DIV> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><SPAN class="578080407-16082006"></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><SPAN class="578080407-16082006"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">which means you should be able to do something like:</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><SPAN class="578080407-16082006"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><SPAN class="578080407-16082006">var so = new SWFObject("movie.swf", "mymovie", "200", "100", "7", "#336699", false, "high", "", "", false);</SPAN><SPAN class="578080407-16082006"><BR>so.write("flashcontent");</SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="578080407-16082006"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="578080407-16082006"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">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.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="578080407-16082006"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="578080407-16082006"><SPAN class="578080407-16082006">var so = new SWFObject("movie.swf", "mymovie", "200", "100", "7", "#336699", false, "high", null, null, false);</SPAN><SPAN class="578080407-16082006"><BR></SPAN></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="578080407-16082006"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="578080407-16082006"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">Geoff, any quick clarification you can add to this?</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><BR></DIV> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><SPAN class="578080407-16082006"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><SPAN class="578080407-16082006"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">Cheers,</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><SPAN class="578080407-16082006"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">Aran</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR> <BLOCKQUOTE dir="ltr" style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV class="OutlookMessageHeader" lang="en-us" dir="ltr" align="left"> <HR tabindex="-1"> <FONT face="Tahoma" size="2"><B>From:</B> swfobject-bounces@lists.deconcept.com [<A href="mailto:swfobject-bounces@lists.deconcept.com">mailto:swfobject-bounces@lists.deconcept.com</A>] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Chris Colman<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, 16 August 2006 3:57 PM<BR><B>To:</B> <A href="mailto:swfobject@lists.deconcept.com">swfobject@lists.deconcept.com</A><BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [SWFObject] Opera and Firefox<BR></FONT><BR></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV class="Section1"><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">How do I get the effect of <SPAN class="SpellE">detectflash</SPAN>=false without having to make sure the page was requested with <SPAN class="GramE">the ?</SPAN><SPAN class="SpellE">detectflash</SPAN>=false parameter?<O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; 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