I’m really pleased to update readers that jQuery has re-visited the issue of their ajax factory method, and have decided to implement it with patch 5805! This means that in an shortly upcoming release of jQuery, authors should be able to directly adapt jQuery to work with flXHR (as is possible with other frameworks!), rather than just needing to override the native object to brute-force adapt. The flXHR demos have been updated accordingly. Thanks to Ariel Flesler for the patch!
CheckPlayer v0.6-alpha7 has now been released. It has several new helpful features, and several bug fixes.
The “DoSWFCallback” parameter of DoSWF() has changed to “options”. This parameter is backwards compatible so it can still be a function callback reference. But alternatively, it can now be an object that has one or more of several properties on it to take advantage of some additional features. They are:
- “swfCB” : this specifies the callback function to receive the SWF embed status events as before.
- “swfTimeout” : this specifies a number of milliseconds to wait after a SWF is embedded but hasn’t started downloading. If the timeout triggers, and “swfCB” is defined, it will be notified with the “SWF_TIMEOUT” event status value.
- “swfEICheck” : this specifies an ExternalInterface callback function to test for on the loaded SWF. When the callback is detected and ready, the “swfCB” function will be notified with the “SWF_EI_READY” event status value.
There were also a number of minor bug fixes implemented, including memory management improvements. All users are encouraged to upgrade. In addition, CheckPlayer is now nearly complete in terms of testing and features and is about ready to be declared 1.0 full release ready.
CheckPlayer v0.6-alpha7 is available for download here: http://checkplayer.flensed.com/download.php
Please contact the email list (http://groups.google.com/group/flensed) or post in the forums (http://checkplayer.flensed.com/discuss.php) if you have any questions or suggestions. Now is your chance to make any suggestions for changes before CheckPlayer makes its move to 1.0 final release readiness!
flXHR v0.5-alpha7 and CheckPlayer v0.6-alpha6 have been tested together and fully operate in all supported OS’s and browsers. There were LOTS of problems introduced (mainly into flXHR) as a result of changes made to both which I failed to keep properly sync’d and tested, since the two are co-related.
If you are using either project, please make sure you have updated to these newest versions to make sure that you are not operating with non-functioning code.
FYI: flXHR v0.6 is coming soon, maybe by the end of the weekend. There are several new features which will be built around this new stable, tested base of the code, and leveraging the new CheckPlayer functionality.
