Comments on: FlashTextFormatter with SWFObject (Release 2)

By: aron / philipp development blog / FlashTextFormatter plugin for wordpress

aron / philipp development blog / FlashTextFormatter plugin for wordpress — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 17:46:47 +0000

[…] We’re actually using this fix from zeuslab (FTF w/ SWFObject). […]

By: Josh Tynjala

Josh Tynjala — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 15:05:14 +0000

Oh man, that's a tough one. I don't think a stylesheet would do it. Maybe you could add a print mode to your posts. Make the address look like this: http://your-blog/post/?print=true. The script will detect when the print variable is true and know to skip the SWF.

By: Joeflash

Joeflash — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 03:44:06 +0000

Great mod, but my concern with this plugin is it makes printing code from the page impossible. How would you implement an alternate stylesheet combined with the SWFObject that allows the text and not the SWF to show up when the user prints the page?

By: Josh Tynjala

Josh Tynjala — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 19:44:34 +0000

In WordPress, you can type your code like this:

[ftf w=450 h=150]var x:Number = 0;

function doSomething():Void
{
    callSomethingElse();
}[/ftf]

The plugin will remove any html tags (WordPress likes to add extra line breaks and things), and it places the code within pre tags. I should probably use code tags as well, since it’s for code. I believe the only customization options are for the width and height. Maybe the language definitions include more options. I’m not the original developer. I merely patched the plugin to display SWFs via SWFObject so that IE users didn’t have to click twice.

By: Geoff

Geoff — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 14:56:10 +0000

That’s very nice – what does the code look like on the admin side of things? Is it added automatically?

Also, my code blocks are code tags with pre tags inside (sometimes), would I be able to customize the output of the text version?