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• jaxterpromotion

  

  
  Hi all,
  
  I am posting this because I purchased a package that was suppose to be easy to install and highly customizable. I messaged the creater of this package, snowcat, but he does not reply to my inquiries on why it does not work.
  
  What I thought might be wrong was what I changed in the xml file, so I uploaded the entire folder from stock. the index.html page worked, however as soon as i copied the source code into my page I wanted to to actually play in. It does not even show, when I right-click the area in which it is suppose to be it says "Movie not loaded...".
  
  I literally copied and pasted, there were no changes to the code whatsoever from the working one.
  
  After that I continued to try to arrange it the way I wanted it to be anyways, storing the source files in a folder of the site rather than having it in the root of the file. This folder is "index_banner" The developer DID have a posting about that issue on his website which I read four times to make sure that somehow that was not the culprit either.
  
  Below is the code for the page; I am hoping I inadvertantly messed something up because then my 167 dollars is not wasted. But with the lack of support for a supposed "well documented" package it is a little disheartening.
  
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  THIS IS IN THE HEAD TAG
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  var flashvars = {};
  flashvars.folderPath = "index_banner/";
  flashvars.settingsXML = "settings.xml";
  var params = {};
  params.scale = "noscale";
  params.salign = "tl";
  params.wmode = "transparent";
  var attributes = {};
  swfobject.embedSWF("banner.swf", "BannerDiv", "600", "260", "9.0.0", false, flashvars, params, attributes);
  
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  THIS IS IN THE BODY TAG
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  FILES IN THE "INDEX_BANNER" FOLDER
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  banner.fla
  banner.mxp
  banner.swf
  images/
  images.xml
  index.html
  settings.xml
  style.css
  swfobject.js
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  =======================================================
  HERE IS THE ENTIRE INDEX.HTML FILE (SAMPLE FILE) (THIS WORKS BUT MY PAGE DOESN'T - INDEX.PHP)
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  var flashvars = {};
  flashvars.settingsXML = "settings.xml";
  var params = {};
  params.scale = "noscale";
  params.salign = "tl";
  params.wmode = "transparent";
  var attributes = {};
  swfobject.embedSWF("banner.swf", "BannerDiv", "600", "260", "9.0.0", false, flashvars, params, attributes);
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  THANKS IN ADVANCE FOR YOUR HELP! ANY INFO WOULD BE APPRECIATED I AM IN THE DARK ON THIS.
  #  /  posted on Jul 26, 2010
• patrickjansende

  

  
  not a fix but just to remind you that copy-paste from local to server is not necessarily guaranteed to work properly ever time, it depends on FTP settings and I actually have seen AS code working differently online then as local files (specifically with xml loading + processing order)
  
  I think it will be difficult to fix without more details. Does the banner.swf main file work/show directly viewed in browser? Can you view any loaded .swf or .jpg by direct url in browser? Also, check the url directly in browser of the XML file to see if it's parsed properly.
  
  First you need to find the culprit before finding the fix
  #  /  posted on Jul 27, 2010
• patrickjansende

  

  
  by the way, there's probably a reason that you need to upload to root. Must be a matter of paths defined in xml or in swf file, good chance that it has to do with why it currently doesn't work in your case.
  #  /  posted on Jul 27, 2010
• jaxterpromotion

  

  
  I will move everything to the root to see if that might help. I thought I did that before but I want to be 100%. I am not one to complain because alot of times it is IBK (Idiot behind keyboard) and I have had my share, which is why I try to view all angles first prior to posting. I just hate sounding sour.
  
  To answer your question, yes if I went to the sample folder where I uploaded it, it did work. I will try again to verify. Will post my results in a bit.
  #  /  posted on Jul 27, 2010
• Raoul

  

  
  I don't understand why people buy flash components when they have absoluttely no knowlegde of html or webdesign. And then talk bad about the author that he doesn't want to help them.
  Snowcat doesn't have to help you with adding it to your site. Like you said, the package came with html file, which worked perfectly.
  #  /  posted on Jul 27, 2010
• snowcat

  

  
  We have a full time support service ready to answer to any questions. You can send a message to support@flashxml.net with your problem. You will surely get an answer.
  #  /  posted on Jul 27, 2010