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Kimili Flash Embed - Version 1.4

  • 24 Sep 07
  • comment [43]
  • Filed under Plugins, Textpattern, Wordpress

It’s about time.

Many of people have contacted me asking how to take advantage of Flash Player 9’s capabilities and allow full screen support when using KFE. The short answer is, you couldn’t – not without hacking the plugin.

Almost as many people contacted me with problems applying percentage based widths and heights to their flash movies using KFE.

I’m happy to say exactly both of these issues have been addressed in Kimili Flash Embed, version 1.4. Exactly nothing else has changed, so it’s the same old KFE, only better. If you’ve been dealing with either of these limitations in 1.3.x (or an earlier version), go ahead and download KFE 1.4 – you’ll be glad that you did.

Comments

Knorcedger says:
291 days ago

Thank u for this excellent plugin. Keep the good work

David says:
276 days ago

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.

Michael Bester says:
276 days ago

David – Some other people have made the same suggestion. Right now, it makes sense to integrate update notification when I upgrade the plugin to use the upcoming SWFObject 2.0

Patty Civalleri says:
270 days ago

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

ramster says:
264 days ago

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

akap says:
224 days ago

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

Zack says:
185 days ago

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 —

Michael Bester says:
183 days ago

Hi Zack – If you have an example you can point to, we can track down the problem a lot easier.

Peter Hatherley says:
169 days ago

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” /]

Gary Storm says:
169 days ago

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

Michael says:
168 days ago

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…

Jacquie says:
164 days ago

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

Michael Bester says:
163 days ago

@Peter – You are exactly correct. If you want to overlay HTML elements over flash, you have to use wmode=“transparent” Be careful, though as not all browsers work flawlessly with this – your mileage may vary.

@Gary – There’s no reason that it shouldn’t work in Firefox, other that FF not having the plugin installed. As for clicking on the swf to open a new window, there’s nothing in KFE that’ll allow you to do that. You’d have to trigger it from within the SWF, but it’s not a good idea to do so, as popup blockers generally block new window spawned from within a SWF.

@Jacquie – Without seeing your page in action, it’s difficult to determine what’s going on with it. From what I understand, when you set a percentage width and height with a scale setting of exactfit, the swf may change size relative to the browser window size. See here for more info.

mcnott says:
161 days ago

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

Michael Bester says:
161 days ago

@mcnott – It’s obviously not a Java issue, as there is no Java involved in either Wordpress or KFE. Javascript, perhaps.

As for debugging the issue, I cannot help if you’re not more specific.

Jacquie says:
157 days ago

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

Justin says:
134 days ago

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!

David says:
129 days ago

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?

Jeff says:
128 days ago

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

Michael Bester says:
128 days ago

@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.

callia says:
119 days ago

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

paul says:
118 days ago

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.

Couchmouse says:
115 days ago

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

Kerry Webster says:
115 days ago

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

Any thoughts?

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

Michael Bester says:
114 days ago

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.

Couchmouse says:
114 days ago

@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.

Michael Bester says:
114 days ago

Thanks for the details, Couchmouse. I’ll do some testing on my end and see what I can figure out.

Tom Johnson says:
114 days ago

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.

Michael Bester says:
112 days ago

@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?

Mark Miller says:
111 days ago

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

Mark Miller says:
111 days ago

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

Michael Bester says:
107 days ago

There’s a fix available for the Contact Form II conflict. KFE version 1.4.1 takes care of it, and it’s available here.

Evan says:
100 days ago

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).

Michael Bester says:
100 days ago

@Evan – Yes, people have used this successfully with SSP. Take a look at the base attribute in the KFE documentation—It’ll really help you out.

LarryLar says:
89 days ago

Thanks, works great, very easy to use.

used here – http://larrylar.com/?p=83

Mario says:
80 days ago

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.

Jason says:
62 days ago

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?

Michael Bester says:
58 days ago

@Jason – You’ve got some extra parameters you don’t need in there. Try this:

[kml_flashembed movie=“http://www.example.co.uk/images/movie.swf” height=“200” width=“200” wmode=“transparent” /]

If you stick to what’s available on the KFE attributes list, you shouldn’t have any problems.

Curvball says:
46 days ago

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.

Curvball says:
45 days ago

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.

freddy33r says:
22 days ago

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?

Mario says:
19 days ago

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?

Michael Bester says:
19 days ago

Hi Mario –

That’s pointing out a bit of cleanup I should do in the code. To make it go away immediately, you can change your production status to Live (under Admin -> Preferences).

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