Re: Embedding Flash in .app, Round Two
Re: Embedding Flash in .app, Round Two
- Subject: Re: Embedding Flash in .app, Round Two
- From: John Stiles <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 15:54:17 -0800
If you figure this out, let me know. I've always wanted a way to
embed a Flash into an app that didn't suck :)
On Jan 3, 2006, at 1:31 PM, Rachel Blackman wrote:
As mentioned before, I have need to embed a Flash file in an app
basically as an NSView subclass. Basically, I need to have on this
class something akin to:
- (BOOL) initWithURL:(NSURL) urlToSWF;
- (NSString *) getFlashVariable:(NSString *) var;
- (NSString *) setFlashVariable:(NSString *) var toValue:
(NSString *) val;
And a delegate which accepts fscommand calls from the Flash movie
with:
- (void) doFSCommand:(NSString *)command withArgs:(NSString *)args;
I tried using NSMovieView, and wrote a subclass which did all
this. This embedded a number of Flash files quite nicely,
including the basic Macromedia samples. Unfortunately, it doesn't
seem to work quite right.
But with Quicktime 7 you cannot load Flash files containing alpha
(and ours do) or which are compressed (and ours are). And while
some sample files worked fine with setVariable and fscommand
interaction using MCActionFilter stuff and
FlashMediaSetFlashVariable, not all -- and not ours (with the alpha
masking removed and compression off, of course) -- did.
It's not a Flash file problem, though: over on Windows XP,
embedding the Flash ActiveX control in a window and loading one of
the files on Windows works fine, both for playback and for
interaction/communication with the ActiveScript code in the Flash
file.
Now, being a Mac devotee, I'm certain there has to be a way to do
this at least as cleanly. But NSMovieView clearly isn't going to
cut it. I've gone back to looking at using WebView and just
calling the Flash plugin, but it seems I'll have to do some serious
black magic voodoo in order to have a WebView-derived class that
will handle what I want to do cleanly. (Like rewriting temporary
HTML files and loading them, and doing some really scary dynamic
Javascript voodoo to do the set/get/fscommand stuff.)
So, again, I ask... anyone have any better ideas for me? I'm right
now considering whether or not it would be possible to load the
Flash plugin directly as if I /were/ Webkit, and interact with it
that way. But at this point, I'll take anything: even just a
better idea on how do to this with WebKit so that it's not evil. :)
--
Rachel 'Sparks' Blackman -- sysadmin, developer, mad scientist
"If it is not broken, give me five minutes to redesign it!"
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