SWFUpload Code

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v2.5.0 implements several new features requested by users. Most notably Client-Side image resizing.


== Details ==

v2.5.0 Beta 1 should be pretty stable.  We've fixed most of the bugs that we've been notified of since the last release.  There are still many Flash Player bugs that plague us but there is little we can do about them.

v2.5.0 Beta 2 is almost ready to release.  Beta 1 had a lot more bugs than we realized. Hopefully they are all squared away. We've got a couple outstanding issues to correct and a little more testing to do.   We also have some bug reports that we cannot confirm (especially on Linux and Mac platforms).  The more information and detail you can provide the better we'll be by release time.

v2.5.0 Beta 3 fixes a few minor issues and re-introduces normal POST file upoading for resized images.  I'm not sure why it didn't work for us the first time through but a user contributed some code (which we had removed) and the upload seems to work fine and shows up in $_FILES like normal uploads.  We have also added a C based library (Alchemy) that performs the JPEG encoding which is 100X faster than doing it in actionscript, however the swf file size jumps from ~30KB to ~180KB.  We are inclined to accept the larger file size for the speed gains.

== Limitations ==

  * Upload Progress is not available for resized image uploads.  We rely on the Flash Player to provide those events and it only provides that data for file uploads using the FileReference API.  When uploading our own custom data we do not get these events.

  * The button image now scales properly when zoomed by the browser.  However, this means that the image sprite MUST be 4X the button height. In previous versions you could get away with images 3X the button height (leaving out the disabled state image).  This will no longer work. Unfortunately we can't figure out how to scale the text as well. It stays the same size and in the same position.