SWFObject help
Posted: 15 May 2008 10:56 AM   [ Ignore ]  
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Hi,

I’m trying to use SWFObject to embed an swf file and am a little lost.

I’ve used the documentation and the code generator to get code. Here’s where I’m at.

How to I call the flash movie?  I’m obviously missing what goes in the body to get the movie to show.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!

Dana

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<
html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<
head>
<
title>{exp:weblog:info weblog="{my_weblog}"}{blog_title}{/exp:weblog:info}</title>

<
link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' media='all' href='{stylesheet={my_template_group}/site_css}' />
<
style type='text/css' media='screen'>@import "{stylesheet={my_template_group}/site_css}";</style>

        
            var
flashvars = {};
            var
params = {};
            var
attributes = {};
            
attributes.id = "gallery";
            
swfobject.embedSWF("http://www.marjigallery.com/ParticleTransition-XML.swf", "myAlternativeContent", "299", "300", "8.0.0", false, flashvars, params, attributes);
        




</
head>

<
body>
<
table width="930" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">

  
{embed="site/header"}

  
<tr>
    <
td width="290" valign="top"  id="galleryCell">
    
{exp:weblog:entries weblog="static"  entry_id="4" dynamic="off"}
    
    
<div id="Gentext">

<
div id="myAlternativeContent">
            <
a href="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer">
                <
img src="http://www.adobe.com/images/shared/download_buttons/get_flash_player.gif" alt="Get Adobe Flash player" />
            </
a>
        </
div>

   

      </
div>

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Posted: 15 May 2008 11:13 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]  
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Can you give us a link to the actual page? The forum is stripping out the script tags…

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Posted: 15 May 2008 12:04 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]  
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Yes sorry, I forgot about that.

http://www.marjigallery.com/index.php/site/gallery/

Thanks!

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Posted: 15 May 2008 12:15 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]  
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2 suggestions:
1. make the link to swfobject.js absolute e.g. http://www.example.com/swfobjects.js
2. add

flashvars.height = "299";
flashvars.width = "300";                                             
params.allowscriptaccess = "always";


to your script call in the head.

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Posted: 15 May 2008 01:14 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 4 ]  
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Ok did that and added recommended code, now it hangs up and at “Transferring data from www.marjigallery.com”

It’s a flash movie that calls 2 images via xml…could that be part of the problem? It works fine outside of ee. (I use dreamweaver and it does it’s thing but it doesn’t translate to the ee template http://www.marjigallery.com/general.html)

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Posted: 15 May 2008 01:25 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 5 ]  
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Care to post your XML code too?
You may have to use absolute paths to the images in your XML as well…

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Posted: 15 May 2008 01:36 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 6 ]  
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<slides>
    <
image name="http://www.marjigallery.com/slides/hoyle.jpg" />
    <
image name="http://www.marjigallery.com/slides/marji.jpg" />
</
slides>

Maybe some where in the flash file…let me look through it and see what I find. (I bought it and just replaced the pictures)

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Posted: 15 May 2008 02:14 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 7 ]  
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I bought it and just replaced the pictures

Make sure the new pictures you added were not saved as progressive jpgs as flash will not load them. The flash movie is loading fine and I’m guessing the xml is ok too.

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Posted: 15 May 2008 05:08 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 8 ]  
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Ok, I found it. One more path in the flash actionscript that pointed to the xml file, made absolute and presto.

Thanks everybody!

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