embed a swf without setting the dimensions?

[Ciaran]

Hi Anyone know how to embed a swf without setting the dimensions width
& height? I mean is there any way they can be automatically detected?
Cheers,
Ciarán

 

[Neredbojias]

Hi Anyone know how to embed a swf without setting the dimensions width
& height? I mean is there any way they can be automatically detected?
Cheers,
Ciarán

Sure. Just feel her a bit and you'll get her to bed in no time quite
proportionally.

 

[Benjamin Niemann]

Greetings,

Hi Anyone know how to embed a swf without setting the dimensions width
& height? I mean is there any way they can be automatically detected?

Not in "pure" HTML. The flash movie would scale to whatever default size the
browser would use, and I don't think any browsers cares to guess the right
size of the movie.
It is possible to extract the suggested size (the one that the movie author
set in the authoring tool) and the set the appropriate WIDTH and HEIGHT
attributes of the OBJECT (or EMBED, if you don't care about validation)
element. But this requires server-side code, e.g. PHP.
If you can use PHP, I could dig up some old code that did this job.

HTH

 

[Ciaran]

Not in "pure" HTML. The flash movie would scale to whatever default size the
browser would use, and I don't think any browsers cares to guess the right
size of the movie.
It is possible to extract the suggested size (the one that the movie author
set in the authoring tool) and the set the appropriate WIDTH and HEIGHT
attributes of the OBJECT (or EMBED, if you don't care about validation)
element. But this requires server-side code, e.g. PHP.
If you can use PHP, I could dig up some old code that did this job.

Cheers for the reply! I know PHP so hook me up if you can!! It'd be
much appreciated!

Ciarán

 

[Benjamin Niemann]

Cheers for the reply! I know PHP so hook me up if you can!! It'd be
much appreciated!

grep'ing through piles of ancient code, I couldn't find anything. Now I
think that my memory is confusing me a bit and that what I once did was
porting the relevant bits and pieces from PHP to C#... mmm... long ago...

May be, you could use this one:
<http://phpclasses.linuxpourtous.com/browse/package/1653.html>
Google for "swfheader.class.php" and you should find a version that does not
require a registration to download.


HTH

 

[Ciaran]

Wow! I found it! It's so simple! PHP can read SWF files as images! So
the PHP code to find the width and height of a SWF file is....

<?php
list($width, $height, $type, $attr) = getimagesize("any.swf");

echo "Image width " .$width;
echo "<BR>";
echo "Image height " .$height;
echo "<BR>";
echo "Image type " .$type;
echo "<BR>";
echo "Attribute " .$attr;
?>

If you don't know PHP, this bit of code simply checks the dimensionos
of the swf and prints them out.
Hope that helps someone!

Ciarán