Re: flash files which load other flash files
Hi keymaster... This is due to how flash loads relative URLs. When embedded into html, flash loads urls relative to the HTML, not the swf file. If you load the swf directly, it IS relative to the swf file. So if you embed a swf in the page "/products/view/1", and then from that flash movie you load "movie2.swf", it will try to find it in "/ products/view/movie2.swf". I always use load relative urls starting from root (ie. "/swf/ movie2swf") so this is never a problem. In addition, if you haven't already installed Firebug, do it now because you can see what URLs it is trying to load, and will tell you if you get a 404 because of an incorrect path (and show you the path!) Hope this helps, Adam On Oct 26, 12:32 am, keymaster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you both for your replies. > > When I manually type this url directly into the browser address bar, > the flash file loads, gets all the other files it needs, and works > fine: > > http://localhost/cake/img/INDEX.SWF > > where, the .swf files are located in: > /cake/app/webroot/img/ > > However, when I use the following html in my layout, the flash file > does not load at all: > > codeBase=http://active.macromedia.com/flash2/cabs/ > swflash.cab#version=4,0,0,0 > id=index name=index width="100%" height="500"> > > > > > > > > > > > http://localhost/cake/img/";> > > > > > > > http://localhost/cake/img/"; src="INDEX.SWF" > quality="high" scale="exactfit" salign="L" bgcolor="#ff" > WIDTH="780" HEIGHT="418" NAME="index" TYPE="application/x-shockwave- > flash" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/ > index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"> > > > Would anyone have an idea why manually typing the url into the browser > address bar brings up the .swf, but this html doesn't? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: flash files which load other flash files
Managed to find the problem. Will document it here for those that follow. Thanks to all who helped. The way I figured out what was going on, was by looking at the apache server access logs, and seeing what url was being generated to load the original flash file, as well as the subsequent urls generated for the remaining files. In my case the server was receiving: /cake/INDEX.SWF for the original flash file and was logging a 404 error. I immediately understood the problem and changed the INDEX.SWF to img/ INDEX.SWF. It still didn't work, so I defined the base vars as Martin suggested, and that did it. For those interested, here is the full working html, where all the .swf files are in cake/app/webroot/img/: http://active.macromedia.com/flash2/cabs/ swflash.cab#version=4,0,0,0 id=index name=index width="100%" height="50807"> http://localhost/cake/img/";> http://localhost/cake/img/"; src="img/INDEX.SWF" quality="high" scale="exactfit" salign="L" bgcolor="#ff" WIDTH="780" HEIGHT="418" NAME="index" TYPE="application/x-shockwave- flash" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/ index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"> Thanks to those who took the time to help. Hope this helps someone else. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: flash files which load other flash files
Thank you both for your replies. When I manually type this url directly into the browser address bar, the flash file loads, gets all the other files it needs, and works fine: http://localhost/cake/img/INDEX.SWF where, the .swf files are located in: /cake/app/webroot/img/ However, when I use the following html in my layout, the flash file does not load at all: http://active.macromedia.com/flash2/cabs/ swflash.cab#version=4,0,0,0 id=index name=index width="100%" height="500"> http://localhost/cake/img/";> http://localhost/cake/img/"; src="INDEX.SWF" quality="high" scale="exactfit" salign="L" bgcolor="#ff" WIDTH="780" HEIGHT="418" NAME="index" TYPE="application/x-shockwave- flash" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/ index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"> Would anyone have an idea why manually typing the url into the browser address bar brings up the .swf, but this html doesn't? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: flash files which load other flash files
you can set a parameter for the flash movie so it knows what its base url is. like this : " /> also set the "base" attribute on the embed tag to the same here's the Adobe technote : http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_04157&sliceId=1 --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
RE: flash files which load other flash files
Can you just not use absolute urls? /img/swf/menu.swf Or if they need to be configurable pass them in as flash vars or xml? There are plenty of quick web tut's out there showing how to do such things. -Original Message- From: cake-php@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of keymaster Sent: Thursday, 25 October 2007 6:54 a.m. To: Cake PHP Subject: flash files which load other flash files On our cake site which is nearly finished, our graphics/flash designer has created a beautiful flash-based intro. Normally, I have no problems embedding flash files into cake. I have done it many times before by placing them in a subdirectory within the cake webroot and then referencing $this->webroot within the tag, like so: " /> This time however, I received an unpleasant surprise. The flash designer decided to do things more "efficiently" to save load time, and he broke up his flash intro into multiple flash files, where there is one "main" .swf which, once loaded into the browser, requests the others as needed. Great idea, but... How do I get the main .swf to generate the correct cake urls? All my .swf's are sitting in webroot/img/swf/. I know the main .swf needs to generate an url of: http://domain.com/img/swf/filename.swf Our flash designer is only an artist type, not a flash developer/ programmer. I am also not a flash programmer just a well-meaning PHP/ MySQL type. Is there any way out of this ? I thought perhaps of the following possibilities: 1. have the flash designer combine everything into a single flash file (but it will take much longer to load). 2. have the flash designer hardcode the cake urls of the several dozen flash files into his main swf (lots of work and nonportable) 3. (don't know if this will work) make the cake webroot the same as the site root so the urls will be the same (?) Is there any simple way to do this? __ NOD32 2611 (20071023) Information __ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
flash files which load other flash files
On our cake site which is nearly finished, our graphics/flash designer has created a beautiful flash-based intro. Normally, I have no problems embedding flash files into cake. I have done it many times before by placing them in a subdirectory within the cake webroot and then referencing $this->webroot within the tag, like so: " /> This time however, I received an unpleasant surprise. The flash designer decided to do things more "efficiently" to save load time, and he broke up his flash intro into multiple flash files, where there is one "main" .swf which, once loaded into the browser, requests the others as needed. Great idea, but... How do I get the main .swf to generate the correct cake urls? All my .swf's are sitting in webroot/img/swf/. I know the main .swf needs to generate an url of: http://domain.com/img/swf/filename.swf Our flash designer is only an artist type, not a flash developer/ programmer. I am also not a flash programmer just a well-meaning PHP/ MySQL type. Is there any way out of this ? I thought perhaps of the following possibilities: 1. have the flash designer combine everything into a single flash file (but it will take much longer to load). 2. have the flash designer hardcode the cake urls of the several dozen flash files into his main swf (lots of work and nonportable) 3. (don't know if this will work) make the cake webroot the same as the site root so the urls will be the same (?) Is there any simple way to do this? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
