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I still don't understand where is the problem with running multiple Flash files on the same page. First day I've got this code from deconcept I started to use it like this, and it works perfectly (pay attention to the FLASHCONTENT numbers marked in red) :

For example... first flash animation on your page:

Code:

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<script type="text/javascript" src="flashobject.js"></script>
               
        <div id="flashcontent1">
          Either you don't have Flash plugin installed or you have Javascript turned off.
        Both are required for browsing this page...
        </div>
        <script type="text/javascript">
          var fo = new FlashObject("3D_Anim_Room.swf", "3D_Anim_Room", "213", "185", "7", "#000000");
        fo.addParam("align", "t");
          fo.write("flashcontent1");
        </script>

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...second flash animation on your page:

Code:

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<script type="text/javascript" src="flashobject.js"></script>
               
        <div id="flashcontent2">
          Either you don't have Flash plugin installed or you have Javascript turned off.
        Both are required for browsing this page...
        </div>
        <script type="text/javascript">
          var fo = new FlashObject("MainAnim.swf", "MainAnim", "422", "450", "7", "#000000");
        fo.addParam("align", "t");
          fo.write("flashcontent2");
        </script>

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...third flash animation on your page:

Code:

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<script type="text/javascript" src="flashobject.js"></script>
               
        <div id="flashcontent3">
          Either you don't have Flash plugin installed or you have Javascript turned off.
        Both are required for browsing this page...
        </div>
        <script type="text/javascript">
          var fo = new FlashObject("LittleIntro.swf", "LittleIntro", "111", "111", "7", "#000000");
        fo.addParam("align", "t");
        fo.addParam("wmode", "transparent");
          fo.write("flashcontent3");
        </script>

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Last ione contains this line also:

Code:

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        fo.addParam("wmode", "transparent");

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Just because I wanted it to be transparent, otherwise you can exclude it...

And so on, and so on... again, just pay attention to those FLASHCONTENT numbers... it's just like layering kind -of thing.

Hope this helps someone...
Cheers !
Sasha

P.S. Take a look at my PORTFOLIO link in my signature... on the splash page, you can see three different Flash animations playing in the same time without any difficulties. And also, the top one is actually even nested inside the floating layer (just try to resize your browser's window, horizontal axis)

Ask The Geezer, did you ever get your FSR file? I'm still waiting for mine.

No I haven't heard a thing. :(

I'm going to mail him again.

He hasn't been answering my emails. I'm going to lodge a complaint with PayPal. I notice we haven't heard from stayingTuned, the guy who brought it up to begin with.

Let me know what happens.

PayPal got a refund for me. Actually, I'm disappointed that the FSR thing didn't work out. I was hoping for a simple utility. It looks like this stuff is going to drag out for a long time before there are any easy solutions.

I turned mine in too, they said they were investigating. But in my case, nothing was ever drawn out.

On the other hand, even before he came along, I was using a workaround that MS came out with. Now for some reason, that one was taken down, but it works fine. It was a folder, with the 2 js files in it, and three bits of code that you added to the page. I keep a copy of the folder to paste into any site I'm working on, and added the code bits to the Dreamweaver Snippetts panel. Now it takes about a minute to convert a page over. ;)

Mr. Geezer...I have that one also. I used the workaround by Adobe and now I'm using Flash Object. As a side note, I just downloaded a couple of betas from Microsoft. One seems to be potential competition for Illustrator and the other seems to be an attempt to possibly rival Flash. I've just begun to take a look, so my conclusions may be faulty. If it is true that Microsoft is going to try to compete with Flash, my aluminum foil cap is beginning to glow with conspiracy rays. Will the new "MicroFlash" be able to run on IE without any problems? Hmmmmmm.....

There are already a number of other "flash" programs, and many others will export to the swf format. But I don't think anyone will equal Flash. I mean, unless Adobe really drops the ball, which they probably will. :(

UPDATE>>>

OK, I got mine in an e-mail;

Hey Mitch! Sorry about the huge delay, you may have noticed on the FSR site that we’ve developed a windows utility that will scan an entire project directory making the updates in seconds and after a lot of hard work, it’s ready. The utility is $15 but I’m sending it to everyone who purchased the extension in the past week or so. This is far superior to the page-by-page method the extension was based on. Anyhow, here is FSR. Just extract and run it, no cumbersome installs or anything. Your serial key is: XXX-XXX-XXX which will disable the initial countdown screen completely. Feedback is extremely important to me so if there is something else this utility should do, please send me a line.



Thanks and spread the word if you get a chance!

-Mike

And, of course, it works fine. Real fast too, does a whole folder of html pages and adds the js file in the folder.

Mitch, its Mike ; o ). Thanks for your patience! Its a Visual C++ app so its blazing fast. Too dam fast really, we had this cool processing sequence thing going but it ended up being irrelevant even on a 4k+ file "project" execution and we did not want an installer. Anyhow, if anything can be improved upon, please hit me up!

-Mike

I know, I thought it wasn't working right, cause it looked like nothing was happening.

There is one problem I saw though. If you hit the process button twice, it writes the java incude part in the head tag twice. Not sure if you can fix that but would be nice.

I also haven't tried it on a page with more than one flash movie. Does it take care of that? ;)

It will address multiple instances of flash on a single page. Currently we have it so the .js isn't replicated but the multiple injection on the files wasn't considered upon re-processing. Yes, it will be fixed, thanks for the feedback man.

-Mike

Ahhhh, see another problem. Going to a page with this fix on it, look at the MS flag in the upper right corner. It never stops, like it's still downloading.

http://www.learningflashmx.com/fsr/movie1.html

And here's a page with another workaround on it, flashobject, I think.

http://www.flashbax.com/slide_show.htm

I'm not getting that flag. Which version of which browser is giving you the flag?

-Mike

It's IE 6.0.2800 with SP1 on XP Pro. My partner sees it on the same stuff with SP2.

Are you certain its not an ad bar or something? This flag being in the upper right hand corner is alien to me. I've seen instances where IE will chug on a web service and/or local data source, in which case I'll see "x abjects still loading" on things in the past but never a flag graphic.

-Mike

You've never seen this flag waving while a page loads? That's what happens. It never stops waving on the first link above, but does when the movie is done loading on that second link.

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Originally Posted by Ask The Geezer

You've never seen this flag waving while a page loads? That's what happens. It never stops waving on the first link above, but does when the movie is done loading on that second link.

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If you have a minute, try inserting a / before the include directive on the actual html page and then upload it. I'm thinking win/linux/j2ee boxes may handle root relativity on the server side a little different.

-m

Ah, good point, be right back.

The only way it works is if I use the full path, from http. Doesn't matter where it is, but it needs the full path. Without that, even with out the slash, the flag waves, but will stop and finish loading if I refresh the page.

Sadly, once again, it shows that there may not be a simple panacea for this problem.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by toulouse2k

Sadly, once again, it shows that there may not be a simple panacea for this problem.

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FSR is the closest thing to "simple" you'll find... period. Obviously there are people dedicated to nailing the issue in general ; o ). Get FSR and help evolve it, otherwise dont be sad... get into something else.

-Mike

Ah, forgot to mention last night. The generated insert code puts two extra lines, the ifIE and endif lines actually seem to comment out the middle line. I had to remove those too, to get it to work.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by FSRv1

FSR is the closest thing to "simple" you'll find... period. Obviously there are people dedicated to nailing the issue in general ; o ). Get FSR and help evolve it, otherwise dont be sad... get into something else.

-Mike

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I think I'll wait until all the kinks get worked out. I'm not up to paying $15 for a beta right now....I do that enough with Microsoft.

Ya know, even with the kinks, I like this one a lot better. There's a lot less code to load, and the js file that does load is way smaller than the other workarounds with one or two pages full of javascript.

Well, Mr. Geezer, that does mean a lot to me. I went ahead and bought it. I just hope I actually get it this time.

hi just discoverd this problem today (im kinda slow)
what program do you guys reccommend considering i only have 5 sites to edit and little knowledge of html and java? i heard about flashobject and one by macromedia which one is better?

does anyone have a link for the macromedia one?

There are two that are free. Both are MXP installs for flash 8 that generate the html page with the code on it and the folder with the js files in it. One is here;

http://board.flashkit.com/board/showthread.php?t=684268

The other in a Sticky Thread in the Newbies forum.

Hello,

I am using Object Activator to activate my objects:

* flash
* shockwave
* quicktime
* realplayer
* mediaplayer
* ...

Simple enter the input & output directory's and press convert. Object Activator does all the work for you ...

User support is really great :smoov: !!!
I am beta tester and now I am testing version 2.0, which includes FULL HTML protection...

Click HERE to download your version, and reactivate !

Mark

I tried out the Object Activator and it seems to work. I've already paid for the FSR ($15), but if that doesn't work out I'll pay the $25 for yours. At least you have a trial download to let us see if it works.

It seems to me, if these individual programmers can come up with this "button push" simple solution...why can't Adobe/Macromedia do it as a courtesy to all the people who purchased and use their software? I guess I'm just expecting too much.

Quote:

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why can't Adobe/Macromedia do it as a courtesy to all the people who purchased and use their software

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http://board.flashkit.com/board/showthread.php?t=684268

this is why i use firefox

Hey Toulouse2K,

If you have already another program purchased to activate your objects, and you like Object Activator:

Send a mail to the creator of Object Activator, with your order or invoice included, and ask him for an upgrade (I think $10).

Mark

Mr. Geezer...yes, it's true and I stand somewhat corrected. I have used this option with satisfactory results. It works fine for pages that contain only one Flash object, but in multiples it gets a bit cumbersome. I just got the FSR utility and it seems to work great, but I haven't yet tested it on a multiple Flash page.

mark_jennings I tested Object Activator and it seemed pretty similar to FSR. It did fail to create a .js on a loadMovieNum composite I did in Flash for 2 .swf files I made in Kool Flash. I haven't tested it yet with FSR, so the results may be the same. The Macromedia component, however, worked just fine in this instance.

Tidusen..I too use Firefox, but the vast majority of our site visitors use IE, so that is our problem not theirs. Sites browsing should be a seamless experience and it is up to the site designers and webmasters to make it so.

I just test both FSR and Object Activator and both work well with multiple embedded Flash objects on a page.

Hi
when it comes to html and javasript I am pretty illiterate.
I downloaded the adobe mxp file for the fix mentioned in this thread.
works fine, BUT
how do I center my content in the page, both vertically and horizontally.
the tech notes seem to imply that is the default, so salign'' should do it.
It does not.
I open the page in dreamweaver and there is no movie, so can't do it the old way I always did which was stick it in a table.

my page is here
http://www.tossfad.com/
please check out my source and help, its driving me nuts!
thanks mark
PS I made the site for a friend, its my 3rd flash site, comments welcome ;-)

Set the dimensions in publish settings to 100%, in the Scale dropdown, set it to No Scale and publish. That will center the movie on the page.

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Originally Posted by mgason

Hi
when it comes to html and javasript I am pretty illiterate.
I downloaded the adobe mxp file for the fix mentioned in this thread.
works fine, BUT
how do I center my content in the page, both vertically and horizontally.
the tech notes seem to imply that is the default, so salign'' should do it.
It does not.
I open the page in dreamweaver and there is no movie, so can't do it the old way I always did which was stick it in a table.

my page is here
http://www.tossfad.com/
please check out my source and help, its driving me nuts!
thanks mark
PS I made the site for a friend, its my 3rd flash site, comments welcome ;-)

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wow, a lot of code there. Throw your movie in a named div (blah) and write your css as follows

body {
text-align:center;
}

#blah {
margin-right:auto;
margin-left:auto;
}

IE, unlike mozilla prods handle "text" objects as any object, which is wrong. The above isn't a hack btw, it just compensates for both. Of course in you #blah selector you can add text-align:left if that is your intention.

-Mike

Hi All.

I have followed the instructions as posted on #34 of this thread.

But when I try out the code...NADDA!

(NOTE: The "4" in the header text is clickable and activates a hidden code...I shouldn't HAVE to click it twice but the lawsuit w. Microsoft makes it nessasary now.)

http://www.dc4d.com/gallery2/users/DC4D/index.html

I have the 3 files in a folder called scripts. My index.html file points to it.

(I've attached the file)

Where am I going wrong???

Any help is appreciated.



Below is my source code:


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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Welcome To ....</title>
<!-- BELOW IS THE FLASH FIX CODE -->
<script src="/scripts/AC_RunActiveContent.js" language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="/scripts/AC_Flash.js" language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript"></script>
<!-- ABOVE IS THE FLASH FIX CODE -->
<style type="text/css">
<!--
body {
background-color: #eeeeee;
margin-left: 0px;
margin-top: 0px;
margin-right: 0px;
margin-bottom: 0px;
}
-->

</style>
</head>
<body>

<!--url's used in the movie-->
<!--text used in the movie-->
<!-- saved from url=(0013)about:internet -->

<!-- LOCAL SITE: ORIGINAL

<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="100%" height="100%" align="middle">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
<param name="movie" value="Upload_Files/Flash/shieldBlackToGrey_v2.swf" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#eeeeee" /><embed src="Upload_Files/Flash/shieldBlackToGrey_v2.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#eeeeee" width="100%" height="100%" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />
</object>
-->


<!-- LOCAL CODE W. FLASH FIX -->

<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="100%" height="100%" align="middle">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain">
<param name="movie" value="Upload_Files/Flash/shieldBlackToGrey_v2.swf">
<param name="quality" value="high">
<param name="bgcolor" value="#eeeeee">
<embed src="Upload_Files/Flash/shieldBlackToGrey_v2.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#eeeeee"
width="100%" height="100%" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer">
</embed>
</object>

<!-- BELOW IS THE FLASH FIX CODE -->
</noscript>
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" >
<!--
AC_RunFlContentX ("movie", "Upload_Files/Flash/shieldBlackToGrey_v2", "quality", "high", "src", "navigation3", "width", "100%", "height", "100%" );
//-->
</script>
<!-- ABOVE IS THE FLASH FIX CODE -->
</body>
</html>