Releases for SWF Tools

This is an all new version of SWF Tools. This beta inclues a number of key features which are now ready for testing.

You must run update.php before using this version - there are lots of changes to the underlying structure, and SWF Tools now has an associated table in the database! The update process should manage all of this for you.

The key new features are:

• #483524: Create SWF Tools "profiles" - This is the long awaited SWF Tools profile feature. At the moment WordPress audio, JW4 and FlowPlayer3 have been made profile aware. It's all working fine. The only caution is that at the moment there's nothing to stop you deleting a profile that is in use on a CCK field!
• #754676: Implement SWF Tools cache - This is an all new caching mechanism for SWF Tools. This has relatively little effect on the input filter since this natively caches. But it has HUGE impact with CCK. If SWF Tools is asked to provide something it already it comes straight from the cache. The time to produce a piece of content is anything up to 200 times faster!
• #754734: Write xml to the cache table, not the file system - SWF Tools no longer puts xml files in the files/playlist directory. It stores them in its own internal cache and serves them as needed from there. No more directory full of random xml stuff!

There's been a huge amount of working going in to SWF Tools recently, and people are starting to try out the new 6.x-3.x code.

The code is largely settled now, so I'm making this beta release to create a standard reference point.

Please read the upgrade notes at #745050: Create upgrade instructions for 6.x-2.x to 6.x-3.x before using this package. The upgrade path is a little bit different to normal as a result of fixing a namespace collision with another module.

Also note that unlike most SWF Tools update you do have to run update.php this time round as the way some settings are stored has altered, and there are some new theme functions to be registered.

I'm not going to put the list of fixes and updates in here - check CHANGELOG.txt for details. I've tried to record the change liberally.

Key features are enhanced CCK support (including text fields, link fields, and thumbnails). CCK descriptions will now be used if you have them. getID3 integration lets you pick up tags. Support for WordPress audio is in (the "new" OnePixelOut player). Wijering4, FlowPlayer3 and WordPress audio all have the option to be made accessible by placing hyperlinks on the page, and all three have auto-pause behavior (with other players of the same type) so if you have multiple players then starting a second will pause the first.

The key new feature in this release is support for creating playlists out of multiple CCK uploads. You can assign the "SWF Tools - playlist" formatter to the field, and all the files are handed over to SWF Tools where they will be rendered as an audio or video playlist, or as slideshow, using your configured handlers.

There have been quite a few incremental bug fixes and minor new features, so this release makes them generally available to all users. One of the key fixes is to the input filter system - it was supposed to (but didn't) recognize square brackets. This now works correctly. Also, there were some issues when using SWF Tools with WYSIWYG editors such as FCKeditor. These are addressed too.

Lastly, an interesting new feature has been added to Wijering 4 as a result of a user request - it is now possible to make the player accessible by enabling the appropriate options on the module settings page. This will add a set of links underneath the player that will control it. Because they are just standard hyperlinks they are accessible to screen readers. It requires that SWF Tools use the SWF Object 2 embedding method.

In summary, issues addressed are:

• #404076: Filefield CCK field formatter : Support for multiple uploads added via the new SWF Tools - playlist formatter.

This contains a new feature - multiple CCK filefields to a playlist, via the 'SWF Tools - playlist' formatter. After downloading this package run update.php to register the new theme function that is needed to support this feature.

There is also a bug fix to the playlist generation code that the CCK formatter brought to light.

Fix a major bug in release 5.x-2.3 as described in #396222: Version 5.x-2.3 is broken. It looks like the tag was corrupted in CVS as both CVS and the release package are damaged.

This should fix things as this is a new release created from the (health) DRUPAL-5 branch.

DO NOT USE THIS RELEASE
This version is corrupted, as described in #396222: Version 5.x-2.3 is broken.

Fix to prevent SWF Tools' playlist cache clearing mechanism from deleting all files at the top the file structure. This only occurs if you set the playlist directory to 'empty', so it uses the sites/default/files directory, which contains other uploaded files.

This is a major new release of SWF Tools and introduces two new features - support for FlowPlayer 3, and support for RTMP streaming of single media files via Wijering 4 and FlowPlayer 3 players.

The FlowPlayer 3 support is for playback of files only. The module supports pretty much all of the configurable parameters, and the settings page uses the Farbtastic color picker to help customise the player. However, the module DOES NOT support the FlowPlayer 3 JavaScript API at this time.

• #308172: Extra "/" in URLs
• #305383: 1 Pixel Out colours not passed from configuration page

Fixes #304963: Call to undefined function drupal_flush_all_caches() in version 5.x-2.0 which was code accidentally carried over from SWF Tools 6! Sorry about that!

This is the first official release of SWF Tools for Drupal 6. It brings a number of new features, such as standards compliant code, support for private file systems, SWF Object 2 and FlowPlayer. It also fixes a number of bugs that were identified in the issue queue for SWF Tools 5.

The is the first stable release of SWF Tools. This version contains the API and a lot of plug-in modules.

Currently supported:

Not a usable release.