[flexcoders] Embedding a slideshow swf that calls image files

Tue, 30 Aug 2005 03:53:11 -0700

I have a slideshow generator that does a great job of one task, showing a particular format of a slideshow. I want to embed this slideshow in a Flex app. I have looked through the docs and forums and have found similar questions, but none with exactly the same problem, and I confess I can't figure out how best to do this.

How, should I put one of these slideshows, or any swf for that matter, in a contanier, say a viewstack, and pass it the parameters it needs to function? I need to assume that I cannot change the code of the swf I am embedding, nor do I have access to the FLA.

Here's the HTML that the slideshow uses to initiate the show and instruct the swf "player" about where to get files etc:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>

<body>
<object classid="" codebase="" href="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0">http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0" width="675" height="450" id="cover" align="middle">
  <param name="FlashVars" value="xmlFile=cover.xml&progressColor=0xCCCCCC" />
  <param name="movie" value="slideshow.swf" />
  <param name="quality" value="best" />
  <param name="scale" value="scale" />
  <param name="bgcolor" value="#000000" />
  <embed src="" id="cover" quality="best" flashvars="xmlFile=cover.xml&progressColor=0xCCCCCC" scale="noscale" bgcolor="#000000" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="675" height="450" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />
</object>
</body>
</html>


Here's the XML in cover.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<slideshow effecttime="6" transtime="2" music="08 Dreams of Eternity.mp3" volume="30" repeat="true" streaming="true">
  <slide filename="1 Ext Sunset Best.jpg" />
  <slide filename="10 Patio to Dia Head.jpg" />
  <slide filename="10.jpg" />
  <slide filename="Sunset Liv Rm 010.jpg" />
</slideshow>

many thanks


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