Facebook Flash Embed app - News and Updates section
Thanks to everyone that’s been testing my “Flash Embed” Facebook application and reporting problems to me. I’ve added a “Latest News and Updates” section to the application, so users are able to quickly see the latest updates. The bugs that have been reported so far are:
- The animations display with a transparent background, even if a background colour has been specified in the Flash animation. [Unconfirmed]
- The icon for the application does not have a transparent background. [Fixed on 2nd October 2007]
- The dimensions of the Flash animation need to be entered manually. I’m not quite sure how to fix this, though (as I don’t think there’s a way to automatically detect how big the animation is).
If you find a bug in the application, please tell me about it (either by posting a comment here, or emailing me at facebook -[at]- daniel15.com)
Thanks guys! 
October 27th, 2007 at 4:47 pm
I was wondering if you could integrate a way to rearrange the order of your flash files. For example, it automatically places the most recently added .swf on top of all the previously added .swf urls and I wanted the capability to move them around and choose which one I want to be displayed first. Is this possible?
November 9th, 2007 at 2:56 am
Hi ..
Firstly - great little app - thanks
Secondly - I have a problem …
Take a look at this flash file here …
http://thelottery.squarespace.com/
You can see it plays great with no problems and the important this is that the background of the animation is BLUE ALL THE TIME
However when I try to embed it into FB via Flash Embed - it makes the background of the animation completely white.
here is the code I am pasting in …
As you can see I am keeping it simple!
I have tried using wmode to opaque the background, bgcolor to set the color even tried emebedding it into a table to give it the right background color but nothing works.
It plays OK everywhere else and my other flash files are ok on my profile (Ray St.Clair)
HEEEEELLLPP!
Thanks
Ray
November 11th, 2007 at 1:30 pm
i can add this flash in my page facebook? thx alot
November 20th, 2007 at 7:12 pm
What a marvellous app that is!
December 9th, 2007 at 8:50 am
Is it possible to enable auto-play?
December 13th, 2007 at 12:43 pm
Hello,
Everyones talking about this great app that lets you add flash to your facebook but i cant find a single link on your site to whatever this app is. Could anyone help me locate it please?
January 2nd, 2008 at 3:37 pm
Nice Add!,
i would like once a first movie is loaded to could reedit it in the code first panel and not only with a simplified one. For example i would like to centerized the animation and i must add it manually, so i will delete it to reenter it again with.
Another remark is that the “Flash Var” line is very important for the debug on facebook i think.
Regards for this App!
January 15th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
Where does one find this app? There is no link?!?!?!
January 17th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
I am really dissapointed in this app.
1) Title!?!?!
Why on earth would I want a title? it completely ruins the design of my flash movie and the cleanliness of it on my facebook.
PLEASE REMOVE THIS!!
2) Click to play!??!
Please! Please I beg you! Please remove CLICK TO PLAY! PLEASE have it load automatically.
Is this a restriction of facebook?
January 23rd, 2008 at 9:24 pm
@Mark:
1. I think the app should allow you to leave the title blank. I added the title for people that have more than one animation, and want a title above it. If you don’t want one, edit it, and leave the title blank (or you may make it a single space or something). I’ll add a proper “No title” option sometime in the future.
2. Indeed, the “click to play” is a Facebook limitation. There’s no way around it.
February 12th, 2008 at 2:52 am
hey dm a dummy at computers. can you tell me how to add them in a step by step sorta way? lol
February 16th, 2008 at 10:37 am
i wanted to know if you could get dizzler to autoplay on facebook. dizzler, you know, free music flash application? i also have trouble displaying the image for the activation thing.
March 11th, 2008 at 9:09 am
Hi, I’m a flash designer and developer.
A galler slideshow swf I put together to test this app is not working correctly. It requires to loadVars() a variable from an external text file and then uses the MovieClipLoader class to load external jpegs.
All the exteernal files are hosted by myself on the *same domain* as the swf and the whole thing is tested working separately from the same location as can be seen here
http://authorcheck.aoklearning.net/content/shielagh/facebookGallery/gallerySolus.swf
albeit in fullscreen. What is the cause of this problem and is there a solution?
March 17th, 2008 at 10:44 pm
the application is great.. i’m an asp.net developer.. and i’m new in creating an application in facebook.. is your code confidential? can I ask your code in adding the video to your profile? I have just created an application which show various video.. and what i want is to add that video in the profile like what is done on your application.. can I ask how pls..
March 18th, 2008 at 6:20 am
Hey first I want to say awesome application!
But what I’m wondering is really what is the limit on the size of the flash file (height and width) On my facebook there seems to be a limit so I went ahead and created a sort of flash container to fit all of what I needed within the limited space. Even though my height and width are set at a much larger size the flash that I embedded seems to just get cut off. Is this a facebook limitation because of the block size limitation?
March 18th, 2008 at 6:24 am
Ok nvm I think its something wrong with my flash that’s all. I must of have scripted something wrong.
March 18th, 2008 at 6:26 am
Agh nvm it does get cut off. When I look at my profile. Do you know anyway to make the actual box in which it displays the flash larger?
March 21st, 2008 at 3:16 pm
Scott: I get a 404 (File not Found) error visiting that SWF file.
Angelo: My code is in PHP, and I’m using the http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Fb:swf tag for embedding the flash animations.
flashWebbie2.0: I’m not exactly sure what the limit is, but there is a limit because of the block size. I’m not imposing any arbitrary limits; any limitations are due to Facebook itself.
May 12th, 2008 at 3:44 am
A little request
Would it be possible to add a function to change the order that flash anims are placed rather than automatically at the bottom.
And, in the preview we do not appear to have to click the anims to activate them, but we do in our own profiles. Is it possible to have this on our profiles page or not?
Thanks, Russ.
May 17th, 2008 at 3:19 am
Is it possible to enable auto-play?
July 11th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
Hey guys, if you want your flash to look right on facebook, manually set the flash embed ap in the right profile panel and manually set each flash item to width: 389, height:308. This keeps the flash element proportionate and makes sure that the whole flash element will fit within facebook without being cut off.
July 11th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
for youtube that is
July 21st, 2008 at 12:45 pm
help! new flash embed app user deleted flash embed box from facebook profile (instead of deleting flash animation file!). how do i get the flash embed box back on my profile—i can see the preview when i add the embed code—it’s just the box under profile that i need back. thanks.
July 21st, 2008 at 1:01 pm
update alert! i figured it out—-i edited the settings for the app. the box is now back on my profile. GR8 app!
July 28th, 2008 at 7:03 am
Tanks for the app. Perfect, Perfect, Perfect, only need autostart…
July 31st, 2008 at 7:23 am
que bueno saber que alguien nos va a represenatr de alguna manera…
August 9th, 2008 at 1:58 am
SUBJECT: order in which the flash anims are displayed
….all morning, the order in which the flash has been placed is all over the place, first, it’s on top of the earlier ones; then i delete, and it’s in the middle; then i delete again, and it’s at the bottom!
Q? are you by chance, working on the app user having control over the ORDER the flash anims are displayed?
thanks again!
August 16th, 2008 at 7:43 am
Nothing happend when updated flash information…still no pics to press.
August 19th, 2008 at 11:19 am
App works fine
tx.
Is there way to share the video with other facebook user? It would be good if we could send a link or post straight in someone else’s wall.
cheers
August 20th, 2008 at 10:50 am
this is nice application.
but it would be fine to be able to add it to PAGES ! and not only profile !
cu
August 21st, 2008 at 3:20 am
Hey, I have added the flash embed on my profile with an image I have since then altered. I would like to replace the image with the new one, but cannot. I even removed application and reinstalled it, but the image is still the same; its as if it is cached somewhere i need to delete it…
August 26th, 2008 at 10:09 am
hey great app, easy to use! i was wondering is there a way to avoid friends to clik on the link, and have the embedded file direclty showing on my facebook page? cause its a mp3 player .. and i want it right on my page.. thx
September 18th, 2008 at 5:28 am
can’t find the app box on the NEW FACEBOOK! anyone else have this problem? i’m able to preview and edit, but nothing else! tried ADD APP tab, didn’t work. help please?
September 26th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
Fantastic! Works great in conjuction with Joeren Wejiring’s Player! Thank you so much I have been looking for this for two days!