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Posted: 11/17/05 1:00 am Question on flash banner
I have this application I just got that creates flash banners. I made one and I had the code and settings saved in a .swf file extension. Can I use this on the forum and if I can is there any code I need to add to the forum to allow flash banners. I tried to put a flash banner on the forum one time from a sponsor and it wiped out all my banners and the scroller. I don't want that to happen again.
Posted: 11/17/05 9:13 am Re: Question on flash banner
Yes you can use flash as a banner but it cant be set in the custom images section, you'll have to enable the custom header and use a javascript to do forum specific banners
And to combine the two in a script you use this script or you can give the forum specific html wizard a go, you just put the html above in for each forum and it generates the scripts for you :)
Posted: 11/17/05 10:06 am Re: Question on flash banner
my code is a little different where yours says cab version mine says this
cab#version=5,0,2,0"
and where your width say 400 and height 300 mine is 468 and 60 for height. standard banner size. also the software said to use this html code and put the flash banner code under the bgcolor and it ends above the </body> is that part necessary or can i leave it out? I thought the forum required html so that is how I saved the code.
<html>
<head>
<title>Name of your page</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
I tried to post the code so you could see it but it said no object tags are allowed. how you got it in I don't have a clue lol. so I hope you understand what i am saying here. will the code I have work with it being slightly different than what you put in? because I can't change it because it would not match the files in the text and swf files i have
Posted: 11/17/05 3:30 pm Re: Question on flash banner
Ezboard creates the code below and you enter your own code in the custom html area, which splits the normal web page layout up into 4 areas. 1st text box 2nd text box (body tag) 3rd text box (custom header)4th text box (custom footer)
Basically, you don't have to use the code below as ezboard creates that for you.
<html>
<head>
<title>Name of your page</title>
</head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">3rd text box (custom header)
Code here is displayed at the top of the board
4th text box (custom footer)
Code here is displayed at the bottom of the board
</body>
</html>
The differences in the flash code is not important as the size of the image will depend on the flash movie you create, Chris was just using a guesstimate set of code to show you as an example.
Posted: 11/17/05 4:26 pm Re: Question on flash banner
so it does not all go in the same box then? and how will the animation show if the code is different than what I have saved that is in the swf file? because according to the help file that came with the application it is saved in the swf file and the text file that is why they have to be placed in the same directory because the swf file refers to the text file that matches it's settings. unless I am reading it wrong, which could very well be at this point lol.
Posted: 11/17/05 4:30 pm Re: Question on flash banner
make sure that you use the FULL URL to the swf file because you cannot upload the swf file to the ezboard server, just the code.
Posted: 11/18/05 2:37 am Re: Question on flash banner
ok I don't know what I am doing wrong here but I did exactly as you say and I get a solid white square in the shape of a banner. I put the url to the swf file like you said in the code. when I preview it in my browser I can see the banner but when I put the code in and view it i get the white square. I followed your directions and put the codes in the corresponding boxes but I can't see the banner. so now what?
Posted: 11/18/05 4:22 am Re: Question on flash banner
does this have anything to do with not being able to see the banner? this is in the software info page.
Please ensure that the SWF & TXT file are placed in the root directory of the web and not a sub-directory.
when they are uploaded to the server they are put in a subdirectory
Posted: 11/19/05 5:28 am Re: Question on flash banner
Nutrocker is it at all possible that you could look at the code for me. I am at a total loss here. I know I must be getting closer because now the white box doesn't show but I have gone over the code repeatedly and can't figure out why it is not showing the flash. Here is link to the forum
Posted: 11/19/05 3:27 pm Re: Question on flash banner
Firstly, in your custom html area, remove this code from the 2nd text box from the top, you don't need it.
Posted: 11/19/05 3:30 pm Re: Question on flash banner
How big is that swf in pixels?
I see you have used 468x60 or similar but if you view the actual swf file directly in a browser it takes up a whole screen!!
If you try and define it as a 468x60 banner it will only show a part of the swf if it is actually bigger than that!
Posted: 11/20/05 4:01 pm Re: Question on flash banner
omg your right. I don't know how big it is in pixels. The program is set to banner size how would I find out? I can't import a swf in my graphics program maybe I can my animated one tho I will check it out
Posted: 11/20/05 5:09 pm Re: Question on flash banner
it's called Anim-fx. I just tried to bring it into my animation program and it does not support that file extension. so I made the banner size the same as what Anim-fx has set for the default settings which is 600x300 and it was same thing. does not show the banner
Posted: 11/20/05 5:29 pm Re: Question on flash banner
Nutrocker I have a question do I steer the url to the .swf file or the .html file that holds the graphic info? because I am steering it to the .swf file. I just finished reading some info from another application and it says to use the html file that is what loads the image on the web page. I put in the html file in my custom html box but in the html file i have the url to the swf file is this the way it should be?
Posted: 11/21/05 4:38 pm Re: Question on flash banner
url to the swf file, you use similar html to display the swf movie as if it was being displayed in an html file.
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