Topic: Flash not working - do I have it in the wrong place?

Just started working with GetSimple and I LOVE IT!  After searching for months for a well designed, pleasing to look at control panel that is NOT for a blog or newspaper articles - this is perfect!

Question:  I'm trying to run a flash slideshow on my home page.  I have it linked like this but it's not working:

<object id="Object2" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="data/uploads/fallfair/player_flv_classic.swf" width="480" height="320">
<param name="movie" value="data/uploads/fallfair/player_flv_classic.swf" />
<param name="wmode" value="opaque" />
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="menu" value="true" />
<param name="autoplay" value="false" />
<param name="autoload" value="false" />
<param name="FlashVars" value="configxml=data/uploads/fallfair/fallfair-480-320.xml" />
</object>

and in the template.php header:

<script language="javascript" src="data/uploads/js/AC_RunActiveContent.js"></script>

Is this in the wrong place?

Thanks
Charles

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Re: Flash not working - do I have it in the wrong place?

charles_i wrote:

Just started working with GetSimple and I LOVE IT!  After searching for months for a well designed, pleasing to look at control panel that is NOT for a blog or newspaper articles - this is perfect!

Question:  I'm trying to run a flash slideshow on my home page.  I have it linked like this but it's not working:

<object id="Object2" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="data/uploads/fallfair/player_flv_classic.swf" width="480" height="320">
<param name="movie" value="data/uploads/fallfair/player_flv_classic.swf" />
<param name="wmode" value="opaque" />
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="menu" value="true" />
<param name="autoplay" value="false" />
<param name="autoload" value="false" />
<param name="FlashVars" value="configxml=data/uploads/fallfair/fallfair-480-320.xml" />
</object>

and in the template.php header:

<script language="javascript" src="data/uploads/js/AC_RunActiveContent.js"></script>

This will only work, if you do not use fancy URLs. If you do, you cannot use relative paths, but must use absolute paths.

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Re: Flash not working - do I have it in the wrong place?

I tried it like this with absolute URLs on my WAMP server but no luck.  How can I do it without fancy urls?

<object data="http://localhost/serragetsimple/data/uploads/fallfair/player_flv_classic.swf" height="320" id="Object2" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="480">

<param name="movie" value="http://localhost/serragetsimple/data/uploads/fallfair/player_flv_classic.swf" />
<param name="wmode" value="opaque" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
<param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="menu" value="true" />
<param name="autoplay" value="false" />

<param name="autoload" value="false" /><param name="FlashVars" value="configxml=http://localhost/serragetsimple/data/uploads/fallfair/fallfair-480-320.xml" /></object>

and

<script language="javascript" src="http://localhost/serragetsimple/data/uploads/js/AC_RunActiveContent.js"></script>

Re: Flash not working - do I have it in the wrong place?

FYI it works with absolute links on a live site - not on localhost.