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[kevingibson]

Hi

I'm using flash in the head part of the latest store I'm working on. I've put all the flash files into the Images directory and used the {$ImagesDir} when referring to the file.

The first flash file loads into the page, but any other files that are loading into that wont load.

Has anyone used flash successfully before? How did you get round this?

[balinor]

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[anandat]

intead of image path try to put full url i.e http://www.yoursite.com/x-cart/images/xyz.swf

[kevingibson]

Originally Posted by anandat

intead of image path try to put full url i.e http://www.yoursite.com/x-cart/images/xyz.swf

I've tried that too, with no sucess unfortunately.

The site is still very much work in progress but you can find it at www.britkit.co.uk/xcart/customer/home.php

Heres the code from the head.tpl

<TABLE width="722" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" background="{$ImagesDir}/back_slice.gif">
<TR> 
<TD><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0" width="722" height="251">
  <param name="movie" value="http://www.britkit.co.uk/xcart/skin1/images/base2.swf"/>
  <param name="quality" value="high"/>
  <embed src="http://www.britkit.co.uk/xcart/skin1/images/base2.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="722" height="251"></embed>
</object></TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>

[dManager]

Try stripping the code to just:

<embed src="http://www.britkit.co.uk/xcart/skin1/images/base2.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="722" height="251"></embed>

and then build it from there

also would the !doctype affect this ? (i can not remember)

[kevingibson]

Hmm, tried that mate, still no workie.

The first file is loading, its just not playing.

From what I've read on here the doctype isn't needed.

[kevingibson]

No more suggestions?

[ETInteractive.com]

<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0" width="550" height="200" id="moto" align="middle">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
<param name="movie" value="{$ImagesDir}/flash/moto.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="bgcolor" value="#000000" />
<embed src="{$ImagesDir}/flash/moto.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#000000" width="550" height="200" name="moto" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />
</object>

[kevingibson]

Thanks mate, but I'm still getting the same problem.

I've tried another flash file and I think I've identified the problem.

The file I'm loading is essentially a "base" file. Within this movie there are actionscript commands to load other swf files into the base at various levels.

The problem is coming from the other swf files not loading into the base. I presume the flash movies people have had working are all set into one swf, with no other swfs loading into that?

Has anyone found a workaround for this?

[ETInteractive.com]

im assuming your flash movie cant find the other flash file to load.

post the AS code, maybe we can help.