Multi-file flash

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12/7/2010 3:54:41 PM
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Multi-file flash

This isn't strictly a skin question, since I'm using the HTML content module, but I'm asking this here anyway since the search results for "flash" all seem to be in this forum.

Here's the issue. I've got a normal site with a normal page, using the HTML content module to place a flash animation in the page. The only parameters I have set on the animation are the height and width, I left the rest of the settings as the CKEditor defaults. I'm on mojoPortal version 2.3.5.4, MSSQL, .NET 4.

When I go to view the page, the main animation loading sequence begins, but it never loads. It looks like it is getting stuck trying to load its constituent animations, which are separate files.

The animation consists of 6 swf files, all generated by SWiSH Max 4. They have been loaded into the site's `flash` subdirectory. They were generated with a test HTML file, which works to load the animation, both on my desktop as well as remotely on the server using Windows filesharing.

I loaded the main swf file with NeatUpload through the CKEditor the first time, but used Windows file sharing for all of the ancillary swf files. Thinking this may have been the cause of permissions issues, I reloaded them through NeatUpload, but this didn't solve the problem.

Any ideas?

12/8/2010 2:37:26 PM
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Re: Multi-file flash

I found that the solution was to set the "base" parameter of the embed and object tags in the source view.  The base parameter essentially sets the working directory of the flash file.  You can use absolute or relative paths in either directory or url form.  I used the relative directory path.

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