content plugin does not scale images

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Quoting RJDynamic from the support channel (I can confirm this):

According to the Content Plugin documentation, I should be able to specify a 
width on my images inside the content plugin. Unfortunately, no matter what I 
do, the image is not scaled.

http://flowplayer.org/plugins/flash/content.html#tags

Based on that page, I should be able to do
<img src="foo" width="100%" />
or
<img src="foo" width="720px" />
or
<img src="foo" width="720" />

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Original issue reported on code.google.com by blacktrashproduct on 2 Jun 2011 at 4:13

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I created 2 demos, one current, one with dev:

http://flowplayer.blacktrash.org/test/issue296.html
http://flowplayer.blacktrash.org/dev/issue296.html

No image scaling. I've also tried via style. Additionally giving a percentage 
makes Flash debugger complain:

Error: Unexpected > encountered (expecting '/' or '*' )
    at com.adobe.serialization.json::JSONTokenizer/parseError()
    at com.adobe.serialization.json::JSONTokenizer/skipComments()
    at com.adobe.serialization.json::JSONTokenizer/skipIgnored()
    at com.adobe.serialization.json::JSONTokenizer/getNextToken()
    at com.adobe.serialization.json::JSONDecoder/nextToken()
    at com.adobe.serialization.json::JSONDecoder/parseObject()
    at com.adobe.serialization.json::JSONDecoder/parseValue()
    at com.adobe.serialization.json::JSONDecoder/parseObject()
    at com.adobe.serialization.json::JSONDecoder/parseValue()
    at com.adobe.serialization.json::JSONDecoder/parseObject()
    at com.adobe.serialization.json::JSONDecoder/parseValue()
    at com.adobe.serialization.json::JSONDecoder()
    at com.adobe.serialization.json::JSON$/decode()
    at org.flowplayer.config::ConfigParser$/http://flowplayer.org/core/internal::parse()
    at org.flowplayer.view::Launcher/createFlashVarsConfig()
    at org.flowplayer.view::Launcher/callAndHandleError()
    at MethodInfo-63()
    at flash.display::DisplayObjectContainer/addChild()
    at org.flowplayer.view::Preloader/initialize()
    at org.flowplayer.view::Preloader/enterFrameHandler()

Original comment by blacktrashproduct on 3 Jun 2011 at 12:19

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It actually works if you use both width and height

a workaround would be to always specify both, but I'm working on a fix ; )

Original comment by jns.fe...@gmail.com on 8 Jun 2011 at 3:08

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it seems the problem is coming from flash initially.
There could be a fix, but I need to speak with anssi as it could take some time.

Original comment by jns.fe...@gmail.com on 8 Jun 2011 at 4:19

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Discussed with Jonas about this. Scaling works if you have both the width and 
the height specified. And sure the JSON parser barks with percent characters - 
a possible way around this is to use external CSS files.

Anyway, I will take a look at improving config parsing to handle these special 
characters.

Original comment by anssip@gmail.com on 12 Jul 2011 at 5:00

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Sure. We just have to document the (remaining) restrictions at some point. At 
the moment it does not work as advertised.

Original comment by blacktrashproduct on 12 Jul 2011 at 5:18

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width and height need to be specified in pixels. Cannot be specified as 
percentages: 
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/text/Te
xtField.html#htmlText

I will document these for the new site (tm) docs.

Original comment by anssip@gmail.com on 12 Jul 2011 at 6:38

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Is this documented now so ok to close ? 

Original comment by dani...@electroteque.org on 2 Sep 2011 at 3:21

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For the new[tm] site, yes. Will do so for the old[tm] site in a minute.

Original comment by blacktrashproduct on 3 Sep 2011 at 11:16

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will close this now. 

Original comment by dani...@electroteque.org on 26 Jan 2012 at 4:34

• Changed state: Done