Embedding SWF with HTML export.
Hi*everyone,
We just have implemented a simple way to embed SWF files with html export, as you have suggested.
WARNING! Attached .dll is experimental one, so it may contain a lot of bugs. Though, we hope it doesn't. If you still decide to use it, please let us know about all bugs you have encountered. Thank you.
Installation.
1. Download attached dll.
2. Go to the "Filters" folder within your XX4 folder. It should already contain "HTMLfilter.dll" file.
3. Rename this file to "HTMLfilter.bak", and copy the download one on it's place.
(It is suggested that you are logged in to your system with the Administrator account while doing next step. )
4. In command prompt, execute: "regsvr32 HTMLfilter.dll". This has to inform you that HTMLfilter.dll was registered successfully.
That's it.
Description.
Create object that will be exported as a single bitmap (shape or group etc).
Make sure it's dimensions are equal to those of the SWF file you want to embed.
This object will be replaced with original SWF content if the Flash Player is available. Otherwise, user will see this placeholder object. So it is advisable to add notification like: "SWF player is required to see the correct image" or the like, to this object. You can even add a link to the plug-in download page to this object if you whish.
Next, you add a name to this object that has a form of:
Flash="filename.swf"
or
SWFObject="filename.swf"
These names are not case sensitive (except for the filenames which are case sensitive on POSIX based servers).
If you use first case (flash=) the flash will be embedded using simple classical method.
If you use second case (swfobject=) then the SWFObject v2.0 script will be used to embed your Flash (read more about it here: http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/ ). This method is more advanced, but all complains regarding reliability of this script should be addressed to it's author. It also adds some 8kb of script.
Newertheless, both methods seems to work fine, so it's up to user preferences.
If you don't know which to chose, try the second one, and if it will fail, switch to first.
If the "filename.swf" contain no "/" characters, then this file has to be placed within the "files" folder corresponding to the exported page. Otherwise, you have to enter full or relative path (relative to the exported html address) with this name. For example: flash="http://www.mycompany.com/headers/header003.swf".
That's probably it. If I haven't forgotten something...
Just give it a try!
And let us know af all possible issues, problems, bugs etc.
Thank you.
P.S. This version of html filter has also implemented page background tiles positined relative to the page, not window as was also suggested on forum.
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