Supported Features

Supported Features

MIME Types

The Flash pilot supports the following MIME type:

application/x-shockwave-flash

HTML Tag Parameters

The following OBJECT/EMBED tag parameters are supported:

ID/NAME - ID or NAME of the movie (required for FSCommands to function).
MOVIE/SRC - The URL of the .swf movie to play.
PLAY - true to autoplay movie (default).
LOOP - true to loop the movie (default).
QUALITY - "low" or "autolow" sets low quality mode, otherwise high quality mode is used (default).
MENU - true to display full context menu, false to display minimal context-menu (default).
BGCOLOR - Sets the background color for the movie. Format is "#RRGGBB" in hexadecimal.
FLASHVARS - Used to send root level variables to the movie. The format of the string is a set of name=value combinations separated by '&'.

For more information on Flash OBJECT and EMBED tag attributes, see http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_12701

JavaScript

This pilot supports the Flash FSCommand API for calling JavaScript functions from within Flash movies. Using this technique you can fully control the browser content and navigation. For more information on sending messages from Flash to a scripting language, see http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/publishexport/scriptingwithflash/scriptingwithflash_07.html

Property Change Events

In addition to the standard CONTENT_LOADING events, the following PropertyChangeEvents are emitted:

PropertyConstants.LOCATION - The URL of the flash file.
PropertyConstants.TITLE - Set to "Displaying...".

System Properties

The following system properties can be used to optionally configure the Flash pilot:

ice.pilots.flash.win.reqFlashVersion - The minimum required Flash player version to use (i.e. "6", "7"). Default is "6". Ensure that the version specified by this system property matches the version information in the storm file entries for the Flash pilot.
ice.pilots.flash.win.installFlash - Specifies whether the Flash pilot should attempt to install the reqFlashVersion Player if it is not installed on the system (true or false). The default value is false.