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I’m having lots of difficulty with embedding a flash file and I hope some one has some advice.

here are the details

the swf file is located at http://www.littletreeartstudios.com/images/carousel.swf and if you navigate their the swf plays fine

the issue is that it draws on an xml file, carousel.xml that is in the same directory as carousel.swf

When I place the swf in an expression engine table, a blank swf loads.

http://www.littletreeartstudios.com/index.php/site/studios/

here is the code in the header of the studio page.

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  swfobject.embedSWF(“http://littletreeartstudios.com/images/carousel.swf”, “doors”, “590”, “150”, “9.0.0”);
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how can I get the xml file to load properly? It appears to get lost when the page is dynamically loaded?

thanks

What is the URL to the XML file in EE?

if you go to your url for the page served by EE and look at what xml file it’s loading you see:

http://www.littletreeartstudios.com/index.php/site/studios/carousel.xml

which if you hit that link you can see is getting served as a regular html page in EE.

so you could:

-move your xml file to a directory outside of EE’s control so that it gets served correctly
-create a template in EE that serves xml properly to the swf

test by hitting the xml file url directly and make sure it’s serving proper xml before you even look at the page with the embedded swf and you’ll save yourself some time.

fyi - you can use Safari’s activity window to see what the page, and more importantly the SWF, is loading to help troubleshoot. if you’re on pc, or just hate Safari, you can use the HTTPFox add-on to view the same information and even better, to see the xml stream that’s loading (or not, as the case may be).

-move your xml file to a directory outside of EE’s control so that it gets served correctly

Have to disagree with you on that point.  EE can serve XML files well, the template type just needs to be changed to XML. 

But looking at the file name it doesn’t seem to be in EE.  Perhaps carosel.xml isn’t in the correct place, eyeonmedia?

Must’ve been unclear - that was my second point - make a template of type XML. I made the first point because sometimes it’s useful to have files outside of EE’s structure/control.

Thanks for all the input. My computer was stolen shortly after I last posted so it has taken awhile to get all my files back together.