Comments on: Rails helper for SWFObject

By: Duncan Beevers

Duncan Beevers — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 05:13:09 +0000

swfobject no longer uses the global SWFObject. This helper is invalid for recent versions of swfobject. I maintain an up-to-date helper here: http://github.com/duncanbeevers/swf_object_helper/tree/master

By: Marc-Andre Lafortune

Marc-Andre Lafortune — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:05:24 +0000

I wrote a plugin for the latest version of SWFObject (2.1) which makes it a breeze to do this. It also treats SWF like other assets (images, javascripts, etc…) Check it out at:

http://github.com/marcandre/swf_fu

By: luo

luo — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:03:16 +0000

i hava a error
SWFObject is not defined
[Break on this error] var so = new SWFObject(”/swf/FileUpload_5.swf”, “flashcontent”, “400″, “200″,…
please help me.
thank you

By: Alastair

Alastair — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:52:11 +0000

@jakes did you remember to put SWFObject in ‘public/javascripts’? and put < %= javascript_include_tag "swfobject" %> in your app’s layout?

By: jakes

jakes — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:00:02 +0000

hi
it shows This website requires Flash player 8 or higher.
“transparent”, :quality => “high”},
{:myvar1 => “foo1″, :myvar2 => “foo2″},
true) %>
i put this in my rhtml file and i installed flv player also but the problem is remain
plz help me i have to deliver my site
thanks
jakes

By: Henrik N

Henrik N — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:43:42 +0000

Made a helper for SWFObject 2.0. Would write it up in my own blog, but I’ve yet to write full docs and tidy it up some more. Since I somewhat doubt I’ll ever get around to that, I’ll dump it here for now http://pastie.textmate.org/private/nu0hpwxmtcx0toi58j4kha

Takes hash arguments (for everything but the src), encodes flashvars properly.

Used your default placeholder text; hope you don’t mind.

By: Scott Becker

Scott Becker — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 22:35:47 +0000

It mostly formatted. Left off the beginning, which was

swf_object(
:src => “/swfs/myswf.swf”,

…etc

By: Scott Becker

Scott Becker — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 22:34:18 +0000

Good idea… This probably won’t format as nicely as I’d like, but we’ll see. I’m a big fan of named arguments, like most rails methods have, so you don’t have to remember the order of things. (Which is first? height or width, etc). So, for a nice rails-esque API, you could design it to be called it like this:

“/swfs/myswf.swf”,
:id => “flash_id”,
:width => “550″,
:height => “400″,
:version => “9″,
:bgcolor => “#000000″,
:params => {:wmode => “transparent”, :quality => “high”},
:vars => {:myvar1 => “foo1″, :myvar2 => “foo2″}
) %>

Just a thought.