Working with SWF files...

Question

We're working on an editor to post letter's to a blog, and we're trying to implement something that will automate the process of adding SWF's to the code. Basically what we're looking for is some way to read the width and the height of the swf while inserting it into the code. We have some Javascript that has been grabbing it, but it doesn't always grab the correct height and width.
function InsertFlash(sFlashFile,id)
var obj = document.getElementById(id);
var w = obj.getAttribute('width');
var iWidth=ReturnWidth(id);
var iHeight = ReturnHeight(id);
alert(iWidth + " " + iHeight);
function ReturnWidth(movie)
     var movieObj = getFlashObj(movie);
     return movieObj.TGetProperty("/", 8);
function ReturnHeight(movie)
     var movieObj = getFlashObj(movie);
     return movieObj.TGetProperty("/", 9);
function getFlashObj(movie)
     try
          if (window.document[movie])
               return window.document[movie];
          if (navigator.appName.indexOf("Microsoft Internet")==-1)
               if (document.embeds && document.embeds[movie])
                    return document.embeds[movie];
          else
                               return document.getElementById(movie);
     catch (e)
          //alert(e.description);
Something to note would be that our SWF's are built from flash files in which the programmer for flash has found canned content and then placed what we need inside of it. But we do have one video that has controls, and basically a screen at the beginning that you press in order for it to play. When it's at this screen, we have the normal dimensions of 400x550, but once you hit play and the movie with the movie controls show up, it varies around the 2200x356 mark, the latter generally staying the same, but the 2200 will bounce around 2000 and 2300 pixels (all in pixels), so that's where we're beginning to get clustermucked. There's a swf file (which holds the correct measurements) a flv file, and another swf file with the controls.
If anyone has run into this before or has a better solution, (using asp classic, no vb), that would be superb!! All we want is the silly dimensions... Hah!

Answer 1

Connect is an AS2 applicaton, and therefore, AS3 SWFs will not work (or not work properly).
If you want to correctly build an application to work in a Connect pod you need to follow the rules in the Collaboration builder, SDK documentation. This has not changed since Connect 6, thus the older version refference.