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standby property (applet, object)

Browser support:

Specifies or returns a text message that will be displayed while the object is loading.

Current browsers do not display the standby message.

Syntax:

object.standby;

You can find the related objects in the Supported by objects section below.

This property is read/write.

HTML page for this property: standby

Possible values:

String that sets or retrieves the standBy message.

Default: this property has no default value.

Example HTML code 1:

This example illustrates the use of the standby attribute with Macromedia Flash Player.
It clearly focuses on cross-browser support only, and it isn’t standards-compliant, but there isn't any standards-compliant cross-browser way to embed a Flash application into a document with Flash Player detection.

<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="300" height="120" 
        codebase="http://fpdownload.adobe.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0"
        standby="Loading flash movie">
    <param name="movie" value="flash.swf" />
    <!-- Optional params -->
    <param name="play" value="true" />
    <param name="loop" value="true" />
    <param name="quality" value="high" />
    <!-- END Optional -->
    <embed src="flash.swf" width="300" height="120" play="true" 
        loop="true" quality="high" 
        pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" /> 
</object>

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Example HTML code 2:

This example has similar functionality to the previous one, but it creates the Macromedia Flash Movie dynamically.

Code

flash.js

<head>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="flash.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript">
        function CreateFlash () {
            var flashContainer = document.getElementById ("flashContainer");
            var flash = new Flash ();
            flash.Init (flashContainer, "flash.swf", 300, 200);
            flash.SetParam ('bgcolor', '#000000');
            flash.SetParam ('quality', 'high');
            var flashTag = flash.Create ();

            flashTag.standby = "Loading flash movie";
        }
    </script>
</head>
<body onload="CreateFlash ()">
    <div id="flashContainer"></div>
</body>

function Flash () {
    this.m_parentTag = null;
    this.m_src = null;
    this.m_width = 0;
    this.m_height = 0;
    this.m_version = "6,0,0,0";
    this.m_params = {};
    this.m_Obj = null;
}

Flash.prototype.Init = function (parentTag, src, width, height, version) {
    this.m_parentTag = parentTag;
    this.m_src      = src;
    this.m_width    = width;
    this.m_height   = height;
    if (version != null) {
        this.m_version  = version;
    }
}

Flash.prototype.SetParam = function (paramName, paramValue) {
    this.m_params[paramName] = paramValue;
}

Flash.prototype.ChangeSrc = function (newSrc) {
    this.m_src = newSrc;
    if (this.m_Obj) {
        this.m_Obj.parentNode.removeChild (this.m_Obj);
        this.Create ();
    }
}

Flash.prototype.GetFlashTag = function () {
    return this.m_Obj;
}

Flash.prototype.Create = function () {
    var flash = document.createElement ("object");
    this.m_parentTag.appendChild (flash);

    var param = document.createElement ("param");
    param.name = "movie";
    param.value = this.m_src;
    flash.appendChild (param);

    var param = document.createElement ("param");
    param.name = "pluginurl";
    param.value = "http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer";
    flash.appendChild (param);

    for (var i in this.m_params) {
        var param = document.createElement ("param");
        param.name = i;
        param.value = this.m_params[i];
        flash.appendChild (param);
    }

    flash.data = this.m_src;
    flash.codeBase = "http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=" + this.m_version;
    flash.type = "application/x-shockwave-flash";
    flash.width = this.m_width;
    flash.height = this.m_height;

    this.m_Obj = flash;
    return flash;
}