Hey everyone =P
Last year I've made an awesome find on how to play a flash movie
with a GuiFlash and Flash 10
A lot of people asked me how I did it since then (for example at the Unholy Cinema) and I finally decided to post it up on the graal forums for everyone
If you knew the problematic already you can skip the part below
Problem:
Graal's plugin to work with flash movies had some strange problems with the (new) flash 10 used by xp service pack > 1, vista and 7
Some example to show what I mean:
PHP Code:
//#CLIENTSIDE
function onCreated() {
new GuiFlash( "Flash_Movie" ) {
x = y = 0;
width = 768;
height = 432;
requiresactivex = false;
requiresplugin = false;
tryactivex = true;
tryplugin = true;
loopmovie = false;
downloadwebfiles = false;
moviename = "http://www.youtube.com/v/SMWi7CLoZ2Q&autoplay=1";
playmovie();
}
}
For the most people (like me) this would either result in a
only partially playing movie, an error, a game freeze
or in multiple error windows popping up
This problem belongs to all those threads:
http://forums.graalonline.com/forums...hp?t=134257691
http://forums.graalonline.com/forums...ad.php?t=86228
http://forums.graalonline.com/forums...ad.php?t=71449
... and countless more
If you are lucky you could have just used an old flash 9 version with windows xp or lower but that's everything
Solution:
Its pretty tricky and I found this "bug" by accident after wasting hours of time searching for a solution (I never gave up
)
But first of all install the newest internet explorer flash plugin here:
http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/otherversions/
Well the actual problem lies in the function called by the GuiFlash:
"playmovie();"
Weirdly I found out that when you create another GuiFlash ontop of the one whos containing the movie with the same size for like a second and destroy it after then the flash will start by itself without haveing playmovie() called
So it looks like this:
PHP Code:
//#CLIENTSIDE
function onCreated() {
new GuiFlash( "Flash_Movie" ) {
width = 768;
height = 432;
x = ( screenwidth - width ) / 2;
y = ( screenheight - height ) / 2;
requiresactivex = false;
requiresplugin = false;
tryactivex = true;
tryplugin = true;
loopmovie = false;
downloadwebfiles = false;
moviename = "http://www.youtube.com/v/SMWi7CLoZ2Q&autoplay=1";
}
new GuiFlash( "Flash_Loader" ) {
x = Flash_Movie.x;
y = Flash_Movie.y;
width = Flash_Movie.width;
height = Flash_Movie.height;
requiresactivex = false;
requiresplugin = false;
tryactivex = true;
tryplugin = true;
loopmovie = false;
downloadwebfiles = false;
moviename = "";
}
sleep( 1 );
Flash_Loader.destroy();
}
And voila the flash works all fine :P
PS:
Might only work on a Windows OS not on mac / linux - needs testing =/
(But hey 98% of all Graal PC players use windows)
PS2: nom nom nom nom nom nom nom...
PS3: Sorry for coming up with this after a long time - better late then never =D