SWF Merger

There have been several threads on Drupal's development list as well as the Duplicated modules hall of shame about duplication of functionality in contributed modules.

I wrote SWF Object API to address the need to have an API for modules to embed their own flash. At the time, there were no options for doing this. However, in the intervening time, the SWF Tools module has started providing a much more comprehensive mechanisms for embedding flash in a variety of ways.

Because of this, I'm now working on integrating the two, including a compatibility layer to allow any module that has implemented the theme('swfobject_api') function to make a seamless transition. Here is the announcement on the SWF Object API page.

Please Note!
In the hopes of reducing module duplication, the functionality of this module will be merged into SWFTools' SWFObject2 module sometime in the near future. For more information, please follow this thread: http://drupal.org/node/135063. There will be a comatibility layer, so for modules which implement this module's API, you will not have to change any code (though it's pretty easy to switch over to SWFTools SWFObject2 format.

Bug fixes for the current codebase will continue, however no new functionality will be released.