Comments on: SWFAddress 2.1 & SWFObject 2 Work Together.

By: Michiel Reyers

Michiel Reyers — Mon, 24 May 2010 11:59:00 +0000

Another half day down the drain here.
the shitty thing is that when you include the js’s in the wrong order, some methods do work, like SWFAddress.getBaseURL and SWFAddress.setTitle.

SWFAddress.getValue however returns nothing.

By: Geoff

Geoff — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 04:20:52 +0000

just spent an hour myself going though this, probably would have spent another few if I didn’t stumble upon this post! Thanks!

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:20:58 +0000

D’oh! Unbelievable that I missed such a thing Thank you very much for posting this!

By: Jared

Jared — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:41:39 +0000

Hey Marc,

Looks like I found the problem — Adobe! Turns out the ActiveContent script some how conflicts with SWFAddress and SWFObject to cause the failure of the back/forward buttons. How exactly? You got me

By: Marc

Marc — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:00:45 +0000

Hi Jared,

There are no secrets (as far as I know). Looking at the source for the boston.com gallery, you may want to try to flip the order in which you’re calling SWFObject and SWFAddress. Place the SWFAddress after the SWFObject JavaScript declaration.

ie:
– call to swfObject JS –
– call to swfAddress JS –
–swfObject SWF embed info –

Hopefully that will help.

By: Jared

Jared — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:37:17 +0000

Hey all,

I’ve got SWFAddress (almost) working. The URL changes, but I can’t get the back/forward buttons to change the SWF:

http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/green/gallery/0422_earthslider/

* SWFAddress is called before SWFObject
* SWFObject gives it an id name
* My SWFAddressEvent.CHANGE is firing when someone switches to a new photo using the Flash controls, but still not with the back/foward buttons

…. are there any other secrets? Doctypes? What am I missing?

Thanks!

- Jared