Question

I wrote a flash script that is embedded into an HTML page. The flash script (AS3), needs access to the users microphone and camera. I’ve seen on other websites when they want to use my camera/ microphone flash automatically pops up a box asking the user to permit.

In my case, even though in my global settings for my webpage it says “always ask” under permissions, flash doesn’t ask me anything and just blocks the script from accessing the microphone. The script loads fine, just doesn’t prompt for access and the user has to manually right click, and go to settings and put setting to “allow”.

Searching for this topic on Google is rather difficult as there is too much irrelevant stuff with the same keywords. Thanks for your time.

Edit: This is how I embed just in case I’m not doing it right.

<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0" width="200" height="20" id="myflash" align="middle">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" />
<param name="allowFullScreen" value="false" />
<param name="movie" value="/baseDir/myflash.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" />
<param name=base VALUE="/baseDir/">
<embed src="/baseDir/myflash.swf" base="/baseDir/" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="200" height="20" name="myflash" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="always" allowFullScreen="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer" />

Answer 1

You can fix this by making your SWF’s dimensions larger. Your embedded SWF must be at least so big for the security dialog to show up:

Important: Flash Player displays a
Privacy dialog box that lets the user
choose whether to allow or deny access
to the camera. Make sure your
application window size is at least
215 x 138 pixels; this is the minimum
size required to display the dialog
box.

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