Comments on: OSFlash: swfresize

By: aral

aral — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 23:35:53 +0000

Thanks for the update, James!

By: james.eberhardt

james.eberhardt — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 22:08:06 +0000

Hey there;

I guess I got caught with egg on my face on this one. I put up the URL to a “homepage” for SWFResize without actually creating it. I didn’t think anyone would pay attention to this little script so soon. ;)

To answer a few questions:
– yes, it could be a SWFObject.prototype. It would be great to see this incorporated into SWFFix.
– this is different than simply using the parameters set within the SWFObject tag because this actually resizes the DIV rather than the SWF itself. The SWF within the DIV is set to be 100% of the width and height of the DIV. This way I can set some constraints around the size of the SWF, forcing a minimum width, and a minimum amount of content above the fold. The size of the DIV gets updated when the browser window gets resized.

Anyway, I put up an example on the SWFResize page. (here: http://osflash.org/projects/swfresize)

By: jimjay

jimjay — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 14:33:39 +0000

So how does this replace the parameters that you set when creating the SWFObject object?

Guess I’m confused on its usage.

var sr = new SWFResize(‘flashcontent’, 300, 450, 400);
var so = new SWFObject(“swf/Player_Shell.swf”, “CoursePlayer”, “100%”, “100%”, “8″, “#FFFFFF”);

By: Savvas

Savvas — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 08:07:17 +0000

Nice..Thanks Aral.

By: aral

aral — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 06:12:35 +0000

… or the first release of SWFFix, possibly? :) http://www.swffix.org/devblog/

By: Aran

Aran — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 00:34:12 +0000

So Geoff, are you going to be baking it in to a new release of SWFObject then? :)

By: Geoff

Geoff — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 18:33:41 +0000

Hmm, that could be simplified a bit by extending SWFObject.prototype instead of making an entirely separate utility.

Then you wouldn’t have to pass the element id or the sizes of the swf.