Kimili Flash Embed - Version 1.4

Thank u for this excellent plugin. Keep the good work

Just checked-in, and discovered this update. Thx for a great plugin…
Wp 2.3 has an in-built, plugin-checker, update-notify, in the Admin/plugins…. apparently only works if the plugins are on the extend of Wp.org … just a passing thought. TC4N.

Wow! This works great! Thanks for providing this for the rest of us.

thank you for this as i had been struggling before adding flash to my web site ‘tiptopstuff’ and now its a dodle, thank you very much

thanks for providing this plugin!
I use it to play swf video files, and this plugin provides the higest quality.
But I really miss a visual interface to play / replay the video that is playing..
Is this possible or maybe even planned?

thanks again

Greetings — I’ve been using the kimili flash embed plugin for my site; it’s working perfectly everywhere EXCEPT on my custom page templates.

To be more specific, I’m using kimili to embed a piece of flash in my sidebar. When I’m on my custom page, the kimili embed code is not being passed; My piece of flash shows up, but none of kimili’s javascript is with it.

Any ideas would be VERY much appreciated. Thanks —

Having trouble with menu overlays. See www.intermartxios.com/ctv2008/

Evidently wmode= “transparent” solves the issue. Maybe my code is wrong … how do you add parameters in the line?

[kml_flashembed movie=“ctvpromo.swf” base=”/wp-content/slideshow/” height=“300” width=“225” wmode=“transparent” /]

Hi Michael, great plugin :)
For Wordpress 2.3.2, I have a test swf working in IE6, but not Firefox 2..0.0.1.1 (normally things work in FF but not IE… weird).

www.mandyleigh.com

I put this code in a text widget on the top of the left column on the site:
[kml_flashembed movie=“http://mandyleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/banners/flash.swf” height=“200” width=“200” /]

Any idea’s how I can get it working in FF?

Also, is there a way for people to click on the swf to open up a new page?

Cheers,

Gary

Your plugin worked great for a swf header I wanted to put in my site. Thank you. I haven’t tried it in FF yet but it works in IE and opera very well. Just a fantastic job…

Hi there
I’ve installed your great plugin. It works fine and displays as I want it in IE7, but in mozilla 2.0.0.12 its squashed up to a third of actual size.

[kml_flashembed movie=“http://localhost/www.gustyblusts.com/index.swf” height=“85%” width=“86%” bgcolor=“FFFFFF” scale=“exactfit” /]

If I remove the: scale=“exactfit” mozilla will display the swf but only at about 10% of actual size. Any Ideas? I’m just sandbox developing my WP blog locally so can’t send a link.

Thanks Jacquie

I have loaded the plugin for Wordpress but with IE7 I always have an error on page. Obviously a Java issue. The “F” is on the toolbar but I when I click on it nothing happens. Any ideas how to fix the Java settings in EI7 or is it a downlaod problem

Hi Michael – apologises for the delay in responding. Unfortunately how Firefox squashes the swf file compared to how it’s displayed in IE7 doesn’t seem to be related to relative browser window size. Although unfinished there’s a working demo here http://www.gustyblusts.com

Thanks Jacquie

Hi, I have been having problems from the start with this plugin – I see everyone has it working fine and I’m hoping someone has some advice for me on how to get this fabulous plugin to work!
I put in the code that it says on the plugin to do, the plugin is activated and on a post I put in the HTML editor: [kml_flash embed movie=“http://www.suiteshagalicious.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/landy.swf” height=“260” width=“400” fversion=“9” seexpressinstall=“true” /] and it strips out the quotes, and will not display the flash movie! I have viewed the old video from a user demonstrating how to use this, it was an older version, but it looks so simple, and I can’t understand why it’s not working for me. Do I need to change the code? Is it a Wordpress thing that I need to change? I just want to display a swf file, nothing fancy.
Thanks!

Hi, Thanks for a great plug-in. One thing I’ve noticed is that some people who can’t see the slideshow – presumably because they don’t have Flash installed – aren’t getting any kind of message to install it – just a blank frame.
Do I need to add some code for this?

Will version 1.4 work with Wordpress 2.5 when it is released?

@David – Although it’s deprecated, you can use the alttext attribute to display a basic message when the Flash doesn’t load. One of these days, I’ll get around to writing up a proper how-to on defining non-flash content.

@Jeff – Honestly, I don’t know. I haven’t done any testing with the Wordpress development branch.

I have been testing my flash navigation header in this beta blog:

http://www.mcguiredesigns.com/draftmvpblog/

but I can’t put it in our website: www.draftmvp.com/blog , because on IE 7, Windows Vista, the nav isn’t working. It also doesn’t work in IE6 and is having problems in firefox.

It works on all browsers on my mac: firefox, opera and safari.

I was wondering if you could tell me why I can’t get it to work. I’d really like to.

Thank you,
Callia

Nice plugin, but for me, the KFE button that appears above the editor window in Wordpress only works in IE. In Firefox and Opera it doesn’t do anything when I click it.

Upgraded to WP 2.5 and get “Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.” with KFE 1.4.

Will you be upgrading KFE 1.4 to be compatible with WP2.5?

Regards,
Couch

Kimili Flash Embed & Subscribe2 cannot co-exist in WP 2.5.

Any thoughts?

Love Kimili, must look for alt until issues are resolved.

In my preliminary testing of KFE in WP2.5, everything looks OK, but my test isn’t a real-world scenario. I use a stock install of WP, with the default theme, and the number of other plugins I run alongside KFE while testing is typically minimal. There are just too many plugins available to test all possible combinations. As a result, I need you, dear reader, to give me specifics about your installation when filing bug reports.

@Couchmouse – What other plugins do you have running alongside KFE?

@Kerry Webster – As time permits, I’ll check out and resolve any conflicts with Subscribe 2.

@Michael – I deactivated all plugins and activated KFE first and it worked, then activated latest Vipers Quicktag next and then all the others. Viper was having the same problems with his Quicktag plugin unless IT was activated first. He thinks it was a conflict with plugins that use buttonsnap which yours and his does. His latest version seems to have solved his problem in handling buttonsnap.

I use this Subscribe to Comments plugin and it works fine with Kimili.

However, the kimili flash plugin has added a “Part 1” to my site’s title. If you go to my site, http://idratherbewriting.com, you’ll see it in the title bar.

When I deactivate the plugin, the “Part 1” goes away. Any idea how I could just delete this text in the code somewhere?

I searched the plugin text for the words, but it didn’t find them.

@Tom – I’m not sure where you’re getting the “Part 1” in your site’s title from. That phrase doesn’t exist anywhere in the KFE code, as you mentioned, nor does KFE attempt to rewrite the title element on a page.

What other plugins do you have running? Perhaps the All-In-One-SEO pack?

Looks like there’s also a conflict with cformsII – if you activiate Kimili first then you can activate cforms after it.

Oops – my bad – make that Contact Form II – only one or other other will load.

Has anyone had success using this plug in with SlideShow Pro? If so, have you been able to get this plugin and SSP to work without loading the files needed into the ROOT of the site? I would much rather have all my SSP files in a sub folder than cluttering up the root of my site, but it doesn’t seem to work… (Using WP 2.5 and SSP with LightRoom).

Thanks, works great, very easy to use.

used here – http://larrylar.com/?p=83

Hello Michael, I need your help please.

I need to do the following:
I have created a javascript that verifies if any flash file is in the home page or in a post page. if the flash is in Home (http://mydomain.com) resize the flash with a predefined vars in my script, if not in the home page, then keep the original size. So I try to insert this code in my Wordpress editor:

<script type=“text/javascript”>Decrease(300,400);</script>

The two values represent the height and width, and my resize scripts works, but unfortunately, in my published post only appears the code that Kimili Plugin creates, and I don’t know how to solve this problem. It’s not a pluggin error but my way of implement this code.

Should I need to use custom field key or what can I do?

Sorry for my bad english.
Best regards.

Hi,

I don’t know if I’m being particularly stupid but I can’t get my embedded movie to have a transparent background. I’m embedding it in a Wordpress page like so:

<div>[kml_flashembed movie=“http://www.example.co.uk/images/movie.swf” height=“200” width=“200” param name=“wmode” value=“transparent” wmode=“transparent” /]</div

Is this right?

Hi,

I’m having a really frustrating issue.

I’m using the latest version of your plugin (with WP 2.5) and it works perfectly – but only in Safari.
The flash file refuses to show in Firefox and IE (6 & 7).

I make use of the base attribute as my flash file draws jpg’s from a XML file. As I said, this works perfectly in Safari but doesn’t show anything in Firefox and IE.

I have tried reinstalling, deleting the plugin numerous times but with no luck. Is there something I’m missing.

Anybody else have a similiar issue? Any help would be very welcome.

Well, after many an uninstall, reinstall of kimili (and even a complete WP install!) I have sorted out my issue.

It seems the only way I can get kimili to display swf’s in both FF and IE is to have the NextGen Gallery plugin installed and activated on my site…

..yip, go figure.

I can’t seem to get my swf file to play correctly on ie6. It looks fine on firefox, but the movie doesn’t completely load on ie6.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Hi Michael
I used your plug-in with txp 4.0.5. I can see the flash movie but appears a notice of error:
tag_error <txp:kml_flashembed movie=“mymovie.swf” height=“194” width=“512” wmode=“trasparent”/> -> Warning: extract() [function.extract]: First argument should be an array on line 284

textpattern/lib/txplib_misc.php(534) : eval()‘d code:284 extract()
textpattern/lib/txplib_misc.php(534) : eval()‘d code:265 kml_flashembed_build_fo_script()
textpattern/publish.php:963 kml_flashembed()
processtags()
textpattern/publish.php:922 preg_replace_callback()
textpattern/publish.php:456 parse()
index.php:39 textpattern()

What can I do?

Embedding SlideshowPro in WP 2.6 works in IE7, but in Firefox 2 the flash movie loads, it will be visible for a couple of seconds and then it disappears – white space instead of the flash movie. But it works in IE7. Any hints what I need to change?
Demo page: http://www.thomaskrueger.eu/tk/photo/

Is the wordpress plugin site correct, it says that KFE is compatible up to version 2.5. So not with 2.6? I have noticed that KFE doesn’t work in WP2.6, I just want to make sure it’s not just me doing something wrong.

Kimili version 1.4.3
Wordpress version 2.6.3
Browsers used: IE7 and FireFox 3.0.4

First I’d like to thank you for an awesome program that I’m very much looking forward to thoroughly enjoying. I have 2 problems I can’t seem to resolve.

1) I have 2 flash files (*.swf) that are basically the same, same height and width, same formatting in buttons and animation, just a slightly different animation… one will display in the header, but when I try to use the other one is just displays a white box. For the life of me, I can’t tell the difference between the two files to determine why one would show and the other wouldn’t… works in neither FF or IE7.

2) I am trying to use a flash header and a flash sidebar… while I am able to get one header to display correctly, I have had absolutely no luck with the flash in the sidebar. I have tried different scaling and window modes (exactfit, noborder, showall, transparent, opaque, etc) and while the window modes make no difference… the scale settings simply change how it is incorrectly displayed, either skewed/squished so it’s not at the correct height/width ratio… or the ratio is kept intact only to be displayed much smaller than it’s supposed to be.

Example of problem/s: http://www.dgprints.com/wordpress
My goal: http://www.dgprints.com

I will leave up the version with the header displaying a white block instead of the appropriate “dg_prices.swf” flash file. If I put the flash file into another site that isn’t using Kimili or Wordpress it displays fine, so I know it isn’t a problem with the .swf file itself.

Hope someone is able to help, thank you in advance for any time you may spend assisting me.

Wondering how I have 2 different versions of swfobject.js … will see if I can figure it out. Thank you for the help, it’s much appreciated.

Okay, do you mean the two .SWF files are making use of different actionscript versions (2.1 and 1.5)? That’s all I can think of from what you said, but I don’t think I’m getting it because to my knowledge all of the Flash files I’ve been creating, make use of only actionscript 2.0… How should I go about resolving this? since I made all the files with the same publish settings and same version of flash, I can’t grasp how they’re different versions in any regard. For a lack of better words, I’m lost.

Wondering mainly because I don’t see any way to reference the version in the kimili code… so the version reference you speak of must have to be fixed within the .swf file right? My Kimili code is simply <!— “[kml_flashembed movie=“http://www.dgprints.com/dg_prices.swf” height=“350” width=“850” scale=“noborder” /]” —> for the header. So there is no reference to a verison there…

That’s absolutely awesome, looking forward to it. Thanks again for the quick responses and incredibly useful plug-in!

having a nightmare, i have been given 2 swf files, they overlap each other, one is the design the other is a xml table.

Does anyone know how to make them overlap, i have doen it html quite easy with dreamweaver….

www.thebingofinder.co.uk/test.html

any help is appreciatted

I’m working on a site for a client ad i’m trying to get wordpress to allow me to put a transparent Flash object on the page but it keeps coming in with a background. I’ve tried placing the line between the two div tags but only get the code showing up as a line of text where the flash should be.

What’s the proper format for the code that I need to place betweent eh div tags?

Just wanted to say thanks for this, just used it on 3 of our music studios website for some live feeds. Worked a treat, so thanks

Help. I’ve been trying to get SlideShow Pro to work in Textpattern for a week now but the tags are not working properly. Could someone look at what I have below and let me know what I’m missing? Big Thanks!

<txp:kml_flashembed publishmethod=“static” fversion=“9.0.0” base=”/flash/” movie=“http://www.siteground269.com/~hhcla565/gallery/slideshow.swf” width=“305” height=“200” align=“right” targetclass=“flashmovie”>

Note: all of the SSP components are in the Gallery folder. (Oh, and the movie works fine on my html version.)

Thank you.

Hello, thank you for providing this very handy plugin for flash content!
I am having issues getting it to display my flash file in Firefox. It displays in Safari with added whitespace, but it doesn’t display at all in Firefox. Is there something special I need to do to account for this? My site is http://trendefemme.com. Thanks again!

Really helpful plugin for flash. Thanks for doing this. Will be adding to my site soon.

@Jacquie
Hello Jacquie,

I know this discussion is a little dated. But, have you found the solution to your problem with firefox?

“Hi there
I’ve installed your great plugin. It works fine and displays as I want it in IE7, but in mozilla 2.0.0.12 its squashed up to a third of actual size.

[kml_flashembed movie=“http://localhost/www.gustyblusts.com/index.swf” height=“85%” width=“86%” bgcolor=“FFFFFF” scale=“exactfit” /]

If I remove the: scale=“exactfit” mozilla will display the swf but only at about 10% of actual size. Any Ideas? I’m just sandbox developing my WP blog locally so can’t send a link.

Thanks Jacquie”

Because I have the same problem!
If you have the answer (or someone else), it would be really nice to let me know. Thank you in advance!

Mathias