how can i insert flash into a module?

steve · 04.05.2004, 05:15

if i want to make a module and have flash in it what do i have to do?

i want a rollover effect in a module so when someone rolls over the module a sound plays...

thanks...

coke · 04.05.2004, 06:40

when you create a new user module is just like eery other content in mambo...

just push the < > button to go to code editing and paste the html that you want, including a flash oblject...

note that you ill have to set the paths relative to MAMBO ROOT, not to modules or something else, very very easy

AllMaMbo · 04.05.2004, 07:00

any more specifics on that suject?
what kind of module? any interaction involved?..
does flash have to pull information from Mambo? and than display that within the movie?

when you say module , it usually means that the module will display information defined within mambo, if that's the case than u could action scripts to get something like that done...

if you just want a static animation within a module...
(something that has no interaction with mambo)
most of that could be done by adding to the mod_file.php directly

steve · 04.05.2004, 10:36

Quote:

Originally Posted by AllMaMbo

any more specifics on that suject?
what kind of module? any interaction involved?..
does flash have to pull information from Mambo? and than display that within the movie?

i just want a block on the side that when you roll the mouse over it it plays a sound clip and when you move the mouse off of it it stops playing it...

i have a .swf clip already made and i'm just having trouble getting it on the live site.

saving it as an .html and using the code in the <> brackets didnt work for me.

mate · 04.05.2004, 10:46

I think what Coke meant (Coke, correct me if I'm wrong) was that in the WYSIWYG editor, choose the < > button to go into code view. Then just insert your flash in the appropriate spot as you would on a normal html page.

No need to save anything as .html. Just save your changes in the editor. Or do as AllMaMbo suggested.

mate.

steve · 04.05.2004, 17:46

thanks but i have tried that already... again i am not very proficient with html and may have done something wrong... have a look at what i put in the editor <>:

<html>
<head>
<title>Movie1.swf</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#000000">
<left>
<object classid="clsid

27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
codebase="http://active.macromedia.com/flash4/cabs/swflash.cab#version=4,0,0,0"
id="Movie1" width="100" height="150">
<param name="movie" value="Movie1.swf">
<param name="quality" value="high">
<param name="bgcolor" value="#000000">
<embed name="Movie1" src="Movie1.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#000000"
width="100" height="150"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash">
</embed>
</object>
</center>
</body>
</html>

and when i save it, publish, and go to the live site theres only a blank black box there...

i dont believe that mambo is doing anything for this specific module... i just want a .swf that has a graphic that says "point your mouse here" and when they do it plays a soundclip...when they move off of it it stops.
i wanted it in a module block just to conform with the page so i created a new module and named it and then entered they above html in the <> then saved it... nothing shows on the front end though.

thanks.

AllMaMbo · 04.05.2004, 18:24

ok so let me get this straight you have a module let's call it flash, right?
it shows in your module controll within the admin panel and it's published

so the most logical way would be to do something like this locally edit your module so that the code looks something like this..

PHP Code:

  <?php

 
defined( '_VALID_MOS' ) or die( 'Direct Access to this location is not allowed.' );

?>

  <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">

    <tr>

      <td>

<object classid="clsid27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"

codebase="http://active.macromedia.com/flash4/cabs/swflash.cab#version=4,0,0,0"

id="Movie1" width="100" height="150">

<param name="movie" value="Movie1.swf">

<param name="quality" value="high">

<param name="bgcolor" value="#000000">

<embed src="Movie1.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#000000"

width="100" height="150"

type="application/x-shockwave-flash"

pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash">

</embed>

</object>

</td>

</tr>

</table>

<param name="movie" value="Movie1.swf">
<embed src="Movie1.swf"
please be aware that the movie path has to point exactly to that location so unless your movie is within the modules folder the path is incorrect..
say you put the movie in a folder called flash in your root dir..
the path would be something like /flash/Movie1.swf or ./flash/Movie1.swf
all depends where your movie is locaded those two paths need to be correct
right now you're not showing the movie cos it's not there, the path seems to be incorrect, eaven if you have it within your module directory it should still be /Movie1.swf and the black box is because your backroung is set to #000000 if you were change it to #FFFFFF it would be white

Let me know if this works or not?

steve · 04.05.2004, 18:50

Awsome!!! that was the problem... i didn't point it to the correct folder

...

thank you AllMaMbo!!

i didnt have to try the first piece of code....

AllMaMbo · 04.05.2004, 18:52

cool... as long as it works