a Flash Plugin

Overview

Easily add tutorials and presentations in your wiki.
This plugin is easy to deploy with almost no configuration.
It's also easy to build with the provided ant script.

How to

Install

• v0.2
  Copy aFlashPlugin-bin.zip to webapps/JSPWiki and simply unzip there. It will only install 2 files, a javascript file for the player controls and the jar file.
• v0.1
  Simply copy aFlashPlugin.jar to JSPWiki/WEB-INF/lib

Configure

Edit webapps/JSPWiki/WEB-INF/jspwiki.properties and add arnaud to jspwiki.plugin.searchPath

Syntax

• v0.2
  

[{Flash src='yourAttachedFlash.swf' width='800' height='600' controls='true|false' play='true|false' loop='true|false' parameters='param1=value1&param2=value2'}]

• v0.1
  

[{Flash src='yourAttachedFlash.swf' width='800' height='600'}]

1. src
   mandatory. Can be a local attachment or URL.
2. height
   optional. defaults to 325, like YouTube.
3. width
   optional. defaults to 450, like YouTube.
4. controls
   optional. defaults to true.
5. play
   optional. defaults to true. Will not take effect if controls is true.
6. loop
   optional. defaults to false. Will not take effect if controls is true.
7. parameters
   optional.

Build Your Own Version

1. get the sources
   

• v0.2: get the aFlashPlugin-src.zip file
• v0.1: get the aFlashPlugin.zip file

1. unzip to a workspace
2. copy JSPWiki/WEB-INF/lib/JSPWiki.jar to that workspace
3. use ant to build (just call ant)

New Features

• v0.2
  - Added ability to pass parameters to flash file(parameters='yourParams')
  - Added javascript controls(controls='true|false')\- Added play/pause option (play='true|false')
  -Added loop option (loop='true|false')
• v0.1
  Basic support for flash attachments and external URLs

To Do

• support alignment options, css, etc

Bugs and Limitations

The play and loop parameters will only be taken into account if controls is false. When controls is true, those values are overridden by the javascript.

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Works for me. Thanks, Arnaud.

--Mark Craig, 12-May-2007

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Cool! Is there a way to pass arguments for the .swf that require them?

--NascifAbousalhNeto, 14-May-2007

Of course, what would you need? Like arguments to a flash application to reuse in your action script? I'll spin another version of the plugin today with added features so I can certainly add that at the same time.

--arnaud, 14-May-2007

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For those newbies like me: I found I had to change the embedded tag a little from what is shown above, to this:

Plugin insertion failed: Could not find plugin arnaud.FlashPlugin insertion failed: Could not find plugin arnaud.Flash

Thanks for the pointer Janne!

--V. Schmidt, 18-Jan-2008