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EmbedFlashPlugin
To embed a Macromedia Flash (.swf) file.Example
General syntax
%EMBEDFLASH{filename="string" width="percentage or number" height="percentage or number" background="hex string" version="number" align="string" scale="string" quality="string" menu="true or false" id="string" align="string"}%
Minimum syntax:
%EMBEDFLASH{filename="string" width="percentage or number" height="percentage or number"}%
(other attributes are inserted automatically).
Flash attributes
Pass Flash movie attributes within the%EMBEDFLASH{...}% tags. If a particular parameter is not given, the default value will be used.
| Argument | Comment | Example | Default value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Required attributes | |||
filename | Filename of the movie; should have suffix .swf | flashmovie.swf | none |
| General attributes | |||
width | Width of Flash movie in pixels, or a percentage | 320 | 100% |
height | Height of Flash movie in pixels, or a percentage | 50% | 100% |
background | Background color of Flash movie in hex string. If not used, no background color will be specified and the background color of the Flash movie will be used. This is the easiest way. | #cccccc | "" |
version | Flash Player version needed to view movie: version 5, 6 or 7 | 5 | 6 |
| Advanced attributes | |||
align | HTML alignment. Possible values: "" (default), left, right, top, bottom. | right | "" |
scale | Scaling of Flash movie. Possible values: "" (default), noborder, exactfit, noscale. | noscale | "" |
quality | Playback quality (default Flash setting is "high"). Possible values: best, high, medium, low, autohigh, autolow. | best | high |
menu | Should right-click on Flash movie show a (default) menu? Possible values: true, false. Note that with the Flash 7 player the menu cannot be removed. | true | false |
id | ID of Flash movie; for general use not needed to specify. | movie2 | the filename without suffix, eg. flashmovie |
Global Settings
Plugin settings are stored as preferences variables. To reference a plugin setting write%<plugin>_<setting>%, for example, %EMBEDFLASHPLUGIN_SHORTDESCRIPTION%
- One line description, shown in the TextFormattingRules topic:
- Set SHORTDESCRIPTION = Embeds a Macromedia Flash file
- Debug plugin: (See output in
data/debug.txt)- Set DEBUG = 0
Plugin Installation Instructions
Note: You need to install a Macromedia Flash plugin
on the browser to see the Flash content. The following instructions are for the administrator who installs the plugin on the server where TWiki is running.
- Download the ZIP file from the Plugin web (see below)
- Unzip
EmbedFlashPlugin.zipin your twiki installation directory.
Contents:File: Description: data/TWiki/EmbedFlashPlugin.txtPlugin topic lib/TWiki/Plugins/EmbedFlashPlugin.pmPlugin Perl module pub/TWiki/EmbedFlashPlugin/sample.swfSample Flash movie - Test if the plugin is correctly installed, you should see the Flash movie at the top
Plugin Info
| Plugin Author: | ArthurClemens? |
| Plugin Version: | 28 Dec 2003 (V1.000) |
| Change History: | |
| 28 Dec 2003: | Initial version |
| CPAN Dependencies: | none |
| Other Dependencies: | none |
| Perl Version: | 5.005 |
| Plugin Home: | http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/EmbedFlashPlugin |
| Feedback: | http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/EmbedFlashPluginDev |