To assist people wanting to customize their SWiSH Jukebox and SWiSH Video3 controls we’ve re-released these product installers including the source SWiSH Max2 (.swi) files. You will need to download the latest build of SWiSH Max2 to edit the SWIs and re-export the SWF controls.

Here are the links to the updated installers:

Download SWiSH Video3

Download SWiSH Jukebox

Note: This version of SWiSH Jukebox has the controls arranged in subfolders. Please uninstall previous versions of Jukebox before reinstalling with this version.

Once you’ve edited the SWI files you need to convert them to controls for each application. Export the SWI file to a Flash 8 format SWF file (SWF8).

Jukebox

Each Player is in a subfolder under the application path. e.g. C:\Program Files\SWiSH Jukebox\Players\Player001

1. Create a new subfolder.
2. Create a BMP screen capture of the player < 300pix H x 150px W.
3. Place the exported SWF with the preview BMP and restart SWiSH Jukebox

Video3

1. Select Tools | Manage Controls list
2. Select the category to add to (i.e. SWF or FLV)
3. Select ‘Import’ and browse to select your updated control

If you edit an existing control we suggest you give it a unique name or subsequent installation/updates will overwrite your changes.

PLEASE NOTE:

• Due to the complexity of these SWI files we don’t offer support or documentation. We leave it up to you to work with the community to get assistance on any changes or improvements you may want to make. That said, the controls are logically structured, appropriately commented and not hard to work with.
• Many of these controls use FontsForFlash (FFF) fonts. If you see a warning about missing fonts please install the appropriate missing front from www.fontsforflash.com.

Enjoy!

Have you recently had problems with your SWiSH Jukebox player on MySpace.com? For security reasons MySpace.com will now rewrite the HTML code in user profiles and certain HTML tags get deleted entirely, while others are altered, to adhere to their policies. The relevant HTML in this instance is the FlashVars parameter in the OBJECT and EMBED tags for SWF files.

Using FlashVars was the recommended method for pointing your embedded Jukebox player to the necessary playlist.xml or jb-config.txt files. That code is now deleted automatically when you post it in your profile. As a result, the Jukebox player will be unable to find your playlist. This will also happen to any code (new or old) whenever you edit your profile. In fact, all of the EMBED code is deleted as well (leaving only the OBJECT code).

There is a different method available, though. You can use the query string method to pass the required information into your Jukebox player. (more…)