ActionScript Scraps » html http://blog.sitedaniel.com Flash, Flex and AIR development Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:15:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Centering a Flash movie using HTML tables http://blog.sitedaniel.com/2009/11/centering-a-flash-movie-using-html-tables/ http://blog.sitedaniel.com/2009/11/centering-a-flash-movie-using-html-tables/#comments Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:56:12 +0000 Daniel http://blog.sitedaniel.com/?p=429 The easiest way I have found to center a SWF both vertically and horizontally in HTML is using tables.

 
<table width="100%" height="100%" border="0">
    <tr>
        <td valign="middle" align="center">
 

...

 
        </td>
    </tr>
</table>
 
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link

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Just put this in the top of your HTML inside your CSS declaration

* {margin:0px;padding:0px;}
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<script language="javascript">
function gup(name){
    name = name.replace(/[\[]/,"\\\[").replace(/[\]]/,"\\\]");
    var regexS = "[\\?&]"+name+"=([^&#]*)";
    var regex = new RegExp( regexS );
    var results = regex.exec( window.location.href );
    if( results == null ) {
        return "";
    }  else {
        return results[1];
    }
}
</script>
 

Place this inside your html.
Then if you are using the default HTML publishing you need to set up your SWF to take the variable. In this example I'm looking for a variable called 'transition'

 
<script language="javascript">
	if (AC_FL_RunContent == 0) {
		alert("This page requires AC_RunActiveContent.js.");
	} else {
		AC_FL_RunContent(
			'codebase', 'http://download.macromedia.com...
			'width', '100%',
			'height', '100%',
			'src', 'main',
			'quality', 'high',
			'pluginspage', 'http://www.macromedia.c...
			'align', 'middle',
			'play', 'true',
			'loop', 'true',
			'scale', 'exactfit',
			'wmode', 'window',
			'devicefont', 'false',
			'id', 'main',
			'bgcolor', '#ffffff',
			'name', 'main',
			'menu', 'true',
			'FlashVars', 'transition='+gup("transition"),
			'allowFullScreen', 'true',
			'allowScriptAccess','sameDomain',
			'movie', 'main',
			'salign', ''
			); //end AC code
	}
</script>
 
...
<param name="scale" value="exactfit" />
<param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" />
<param name="FlashVars" value="transition="+gup("transition") />
<embed src="main.swf" quality="high" scale="exactfit" ... />
...
 

The important lines are:

'FlashVars', 'transition='+gup("transition"),
and
param name="FlashVars" value="transition="+gup("transition")

Here we are calling the javascript function to return the value that matches 'transition'. Then this gets passed to the SWF.

Inside the flash this can be accessed with:

 
var sTrans:String = String(stage.loaderInfo.parameters.transition)
 

Then you can get variables from the URL string:

http://www.sitedaniel.com/index.html?transition=myvalue

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