Flash in Modx

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MTD Reply #1, 17 years, 7 months ago

I made a photgallery in Flash. How can I insert it in one of my template in modx?

thanks a lot for your answers

ciao
MTD

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Lammikko Reply #2, 17 years, 7 months ago

The easiest way is to embed it straight in to the template HTML: http://www.w3schools.com/flash/flash_inhtml.asp

Mikko Lammi, Owner at Maagit

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MTD Reply #3, 17 years, 7 months ago

Dear Lammiko

tks for the answer. I tired but it seems not working. In html it works without any difficulty, but when I try to let it works in modx something wrong happen. maybe because I have 1 javascript (called flashobject) 1 .swf and 1 .xml. . Pictures don’t appear.

tks for any help

MTD

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mrhaw Reply #4, 17 years, 7 months ago

Do you have a <base href="[(site_url)]"></base> in your template? If not link the files
with a ... [(base_url)]assets/flash/foo.swf ...

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Stoffer Reply #5, 17 years, 2 months ago

Quote from: mrhaw at Mar 21, 2009, 10:32 AM

Do you have a <base href="[(site_url)]"></base> in your template? If not link the files
with a ... [(base_url)]assets/flash/foo.swf ...

I’ve used this based ref too but it doesn’t work for me either! I’m trying this simple code:

THIS IS A TEST PAGE TO TRY AND GET SWF FILES DISPLAYING CORRECTLY!<br>
<br>
FIRST ATTEMPT:

<base href="[(http://www.ideal-country-property.com/assets/flash/icpmenu_es/)]">
<object width="185" height="440">
<param name="movie" value="menu.swf">
<embed src="/menu.swf" width="185" height="440">
</embed>
</object></base>
<br>
<br>
SECOND ATTEMPT:

<object width="185" height="440"><param name="movie" value="menu.swf"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="/assets/flash/icpmenu_es/menu.swf" width="185" height="440" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br />

THIRD ATTEMPT (HTML taken from Flash generated file):<br>
<!-- Flash Menu Labs � www.flashmenulabs.com -->
    <div id="FlashMenuLabs">
        You need to upgrade your Flash Player or to allow javascript to enable Website menu. </br>
        <a href="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer">Get Flash Player</a>            
    </div>
    <script type="text/javascript">
    // <![CDATA[
        var so = new SWFObject("menu.swf", "menu", "185", "440", "8", "#000000");
        so.addVariable("page_code", "a_b_c");

        so.addParam("wmode", "transparent");
        so.addParam("scale", "noscale");
        so.addParam("salign", "TL");
        so.write("FlashMenuLabs");
    // ]]>
    </script>

You can see the page here: http://www.ideal-country-property.com/es/test
As you can see, it’s just not happening! Your help would be much appreciated.

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mrhaw Reply #6, 17 years, 2 months ago

Don’t use:

<base href="[(http://www.ideal-country-property.com/assets/flash/icpmenu_es/)]"></base>

Use:

<base href="[(site_url)]"></base>

Then see in the output source code:

<base href="http://www.ideal-country-property.com/"></base>

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Stoffer Reply #7, 17 years, 2 months ago

Thanks Mrhaw for the correction... you can tell I’m a newbie! However, still no joy with the SWF being played!

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Stoffer Reply #8, 17 years, 2 months ago

Hi GaneshXL,
Corrected the reference to the JS file and inputted your code on the test page (as the FIFTH ATTEMPT) but I still can’t get it to work.
Either I’m doing something incredibly wrong (very likely), I’m incredibly stupid (also very likely), or my ModX site doesn’t want to play ball.
Thanks for trying anyway.
Chris.

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Meristem Reply #9, 17 years, 2 months ago

have you tried this?

base: "."

That always seems to help my flash files load correctly.

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Stoffer Reply #10, 17 years, 2 months ago

Just wanted to thank you for all your efforts and ideas. I really can’t understand why it’s not working. Do scripts ever interfere with each other? That’s the only thing I can think of: that maybe our Real estate agency software scripts are somehow throwing a spanner in the works. Anyway, I’ve made three separate test pages for you guys to look at, implementing the different suggestions. SWFobject.js, flying.js are now both in the root directory if that helps any.

ATTEMPT 1: http://www.ideal-country-property.com/es/test
ATTEMPT 2: http://www.ideal-country-property.com/es/test2
ATTEMPT 3: http://www.ideal-country-property.com/es/test3