%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{...}% accolades. 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 necessary 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.zip in your twiki installation directory.
Contents: