Posted on: 07/17/02 10:54am
By: twistedfreak
Does anyone know how to embed flash say into the header.thtml of a theme.
I want a flash logo on the page, but the normal html embedding doesn't seem to work. any ideas anyone?
embedding flash movie into a geeklog header.thtml
Posted on: 07/17/02 01:13pm
By: Creator
You have to use both object and embed tags as below:
<object classid="clsid
27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.#version=5,0,30,0" height="300" width="300">
<param name="movie" value="your movie">
<param name="quality" value="best">
<param name="play" value="true">
<embed height="300" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" src="your movie" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="300" quality="best" play="true">
</object>
Replace "your movie" with absolute urls to your .swf file.
Works for me within GL but I haven't tried it in header.thtml though. Anyone?
embedding flash movie into a geeklog header.thtml
Posted on: 07/17/02 04:50pm
By: Creator
By the way,
I think you have to add <embed>, <object>, and <param> tags in the list of allowable html in config.php.
Also, don't forget to change the height and width arguments to match the dimensions of your movie.
embedding flash movie into a geeklog header.thtml
Posted on: 07/17/02 06:54pm
By: twistedfreak
Good thinking about adding allowable html, hadn't thought of that.
It still doesn't seem to embed.
I have the embed code correct - I just generated it in Dreamweaver and copy and pasted it, it's all the right size aswell but no.
However when the page appears the area is occupied by a swf cos I can right click on it and it tells me the usual "About Macromedia Flash 6" so the player is being called but doesn't finish loading the movie.
hmm strange.
embedding flash movie into a geeklog header.thtml
Posted on: 07/17/02 07:12pm
By: Creator
Then something is wrong with either your Flash movie itself or your Flash Player. Can't help you with any more than that.
embedding flash movie into a geeklog header.thtml
Posted on: 07/17/02 07:53pm
By: twistedfreak
Sorry, It was just me being a dumb ass, I had to put the movie in as a absolute path for it to work,
It was relative before.
It doesn't need extra Allowed HTML tags to work either.
Thanks for your help.
embedding flash movie into a geeklog header.thtml
Posted on: 07/17/02 08:56pm
By: Creator
It never hurts to have the extra in there.
Glad to be of help!
embedding flash movie into a geeklog header.thtml
Posted on: 01/25/04 07:36pm
By: Anonymous (DJDevon3)
I just replaced the img with embed and the /a with /embed. Worked perfectly with gameserver but haven't tried with other themes.
Edited file is header.thtml in the root of each individual layout folder.
embedding flash movie into a geeklog header.thtml
Posted on: 01/25/04 08:30pm
By: noke
i had no problems at all putting a flash movie in to my header.thtml.
However, when the movie played, all the text was upside down.
Has anyone come across this before, and if so, how was it fixed
noke
embedding flash movie into a geeklog header.thtml
Posted on: 08/07/05 06:02pm
By: DubiousChrisJ
I have a Flash movie in my banner at http://dubiousprofundity.com/ and I added the embed, object, and param tags...however. I am trying to show a flash movie as an article, and I just get what looks like an empty i-frame. I used absolute paths everywhere the swf was called...can anyone help?
embedding flash movie into a geeklog header.thtml
Posted on: 08/07/05 06:03pm
By: DubiousChrisJ
P.S. Here is my full code:
<center><br><br><br><OBJECT classid="D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=5,0,0,0" WIDTH="550" HEIGHT="500">
<PARAM NAME="movie" VALUE="http://dubiousprofundity.com/StrangeFruit.swf"> <PARAM NAME="quality" VALUE="high"> <PARAM NAME="bgcolor" VALUE="#000000"> <EMBED src="http://dubiousprofundity.com/StrangeFruit.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#000000" WIDTH="550" HEIGHT="500" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"></EMBED>
</OBJECT></center><br><br>
Edited to add: I also added codebase, classid, and pluginspage to the allowable html...
embedding flash movie into a geeklog header.thtml
Posted on: 08/07/05 06:20pm
By: DubiousChrisJ
Even weirder...I tried to solve the problem with an iframe, and same result. So, I viewed the src html for the iframe, and it was broken there too...however, when I run that source on my desktop, no problem...this is bizarre.
embedding flash movie into a geeklog header.thtml
Posted on: 09/19/05 04:14am
By: jnordquist
The upside down and reversed movie indicates to me that you probably use Swish MX latest version without a bona fide license. There is a lot of chatter out there about this and I suffered this fate as well. This is my understanding and may not be applicable to your circumstance. Taught me a nasty lesson tho. heheh
embedding flash movie into a geeklog header.thtml
Posted on: 09/19/05 10:38am
By: Anonymous (Anti-Flash Crusader)
For all you Flash people - don't forget that there are many people who don't have it installed! You should make your site usable without it as well.
embedding flash movie into a geeklog header.thtml
Posted on: 09/19/05 11:41am
By: samstone
Use this code to show video in the story section.
<div align="center"><embed name="You Clip Name"
src="/video-clips/YourVideoClip.swf" width="360" height="340"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="sameDomain"
bgcolor="#ffffff" quality="high" /></div>
Hope this helps.
BTW, very few people nowadays don't have flesh installed. It is impossible to enjoy the web without flash. Even, EV1servers, usually the most usability oriented, has redesigned their web with flesh. FoxNews.com has switched to Flash for their video streaming.
Sam
embedding flash movie into a geeklog header.thtml
Posted on: 09/19/05 01:16pm
By: Anonymous (Anti-Flash Crusader)
BTW, very few people nowadays don't have flesh installed. It is impossible to enjoy the web without flash.
I beg to differ. I don't know too many people who actually have flash installed [then again that's just anecdotal evidence...]. Do you have any numbers?
The sites I use only use flash for advertising - and quite annoying advertising at that.
embedding flash movie into a geeklog header.thtml
Posted on: 09/19/05 02:35pm
By: drshakagee
I do have numbers and they say that 97% of internet enabled computers have the flash 4 or higher plugin installed.
embedding flash movie into a geeklog header.thtml
Posted on: 09/19/05 02:49pm
By: Anonymous (Anti-Flash Crusader)
Yay! I'm in the minority! [Again!]
Is there a report online you can link to?
Thanks.
embedding flash movie into a geeklog header.thtml
Posted on: 09/21/05 09:45am
By: samstone
The sites I use only use flash for advertising - and quite annoying advertising at that.
Doesn't that mean you already have flash installed?
embedding flash movie into a geeklog header.thtml
Posted on: 09/21/05 01:16pm
By: drshakagee
Here is a report online that I can
link to[*1] .
hembedding flash movie into a geeklog header.thtml
Posted on: 09/21/05 06:14pm
By: Anonymous (flash reviewed)
and here's some actual excerpts from a non-macromedia report :
... people in your audience are likely to have the Flash plug-in installed. The problem is that they could be using various versions of the plug-in, which makes it challenging for creating Flash-based Web sites.
Then there is speed. Yes, Flash is supposed to keep file sizes small, but just adding sound and video quickly bulks the Flash file. To overcome this, designers create preloaders indicating in various ways that "the page is currently loading, please wait." This is torture for those on 56K and slower connections
Sites using Flash either use it as an element or as the entire site itself. Elements include navigation, demonstration, entertainment, advertisement or other small areas of the site. When a site uses 100% Flash, the entire site does everything with Flash. Unless the site is a personal Web site, art, games, or just for fun, it's unlikely to have justification for treating Flash as a platform rather than as a tool.
Those succeeding with Flash usually apply it as an element and mix it with other technologies or images such as streaming audio and video, GIF, JPG, DHTML, and CGI to name a few. Determine what elements you need on your site and study the strengths and weaknesses of each technology to determine which option would work best for each element. You're in good shape if you can use Flash without sacrificing accessibility, readability, navigability, usability, searchability, and ability to update.
Persons with visual impairments using readers and search tools think there is nothing on a typical 100% Flash enabled page. Few search engines have the ability to scan a Flash site. Those who have hearing challenges may enjoy the animation, but not understand what is going on because they can't understand the audio portion.
Users have a habit of pressing the BACK button to return to the previous screen regardless if there is a RETURN link on the page. Flash has a little problem with the back button. In most cases, it sends you to the previous Web site instead of the beginning of the Flash movie or another Flash element within the site.
Just because you know how to use Flash doesn't mean you should use it or break the usability rules. Unless you're creating to demonstrate your skills for your portfolio, design for a purpose with substance not to show off your coolness and "with it-ness."
embedding flash movie into a geeklog header.thtml
Posted on: 09/21/05 07:16pm
By: Anonymous (Anti-Flash Crusader)
[QUOTE BY= drshakagee] Here is a report online that I can link to.[/QUOTE]
Oh, come on - that's advertising.
Is there a real report you can link to?
embedding flash movie into a geeklog header.thtml
Posted on: 09/21/05 08:38pm
By: drshakagee
I am not defending the (mis)use of Flash at all. The NPD Group seems like a pretty reputable company to me. I doubt they would risk their 30+ year reputation in doing market research to make Macromedia look good. If they did a study on my company and the results came out in my favor I would use the study in my marketing as well (even if Macromedia did pay for the study it is still a good study by a very reputable market research company).
My work just bought me the Macromedia Studio 8, but I haven't really had time to do much but play with alpha channeled video (really fricken sweet!). Some of the new other new features look promising to me. I personally don't usually recommend using Flash for web-sites (I don't use it on my site) but for making stand alone web-enabled applications and cd-roms there is nothing better at the present.
embedding flash movie into a geeklog header.thtml
Posted on: 09/27/05 08:54am
By: samstone
The above "flash reviewed" posted by the anonymous is outdated, and has nothing to do with how many people have flash installed. Flash has evolved a great deal. With the Action Script 2.0 flash is a faster and much more sophisticated program now. It can be made run faster by developing in modules. I can be developed into a CMS using xml. It can integrate well with PHP as well.
So far I have never heard from anyone who have learned to use flash say anything negative about it. The problem is that you have to enjoy learning both technology and art. If you are not gifted with art (as I am not), you might hate it (and I did before). I wish there is a community like this to build a program like Geeklog collaborately using Action Script 2.0.
I also have no reason to defend Flash. I stumbled on to it in search of beauty. Technology, like a well written php script, is great, but when it puts on a skin of artistic beauty, it is superb. Most of us appreciate a powerful computer system, but we like it better when it comes in a beautiful case (like Mac)! That's what Flash does, but I have discovered that Flash now is more than a beautiful skin; it has a lot of substance in it.
Just my two cents.