Flash

Flash content can easily be included in your courses.

If you have the multimedia filter enabled then simply linking to the file in an HTML area such as a label, HTML block or section description will also display the Flash file inline. At the moment all flash files will play at the same size site-wide by default. However,if using the .swf filter you can control display size by adding the following parameters to the end of the link to specify size: ?d=widthxheight eg ?d=800x600 is 800 pixels wide 600 pixels high. You can use up to 3 characters for the width and the height, plus an optional % symbol at the end.

There are also other ways to achieve sizing control. See the forum posts below for some hacks.

You can use HTML code and the object tag to set individual movie sizes which will work with most browsers except Microsoft's Internet Explorer

<object width="600" height="400" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0"> <param name="movie" value="http://yoursite.org/file.php/2/movie.swf" /> <param name="quality" value="high" /> <embed width="600" height="400" src="http://yoursite.org/file.php/2/movie.swf" quality="high" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" /></object>

See also

• Flash module
• Files
• Filters (administrator)
• Multimedia plugin vs object embed forum discussion
• Size of embedded Flash forum discussion
• Macromedia