Flash File

Hi

I have to display a flash file. I am doing this by using an object tag in the tpl. how can i make the flash file clickable and give a link for it? (ie achieve the same functionaly as href does for an image)also how can i display an alternate text, if the flash file does not get loaded ( same purpose that is achieved with alt attribute of img tag)

This is probably more of a html question. thanks for your time

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Sailesh

Hi

I have to display a flash file. I am doing this by using an object tag in the tpl. how can i make the flash file clickable and give a link for it? (ie achieve the same functionaly as href does for an image)also how can i display an alternate text, if the flash file does not get loaded ( same purpose that is achieved with alt attribute of img tag)

This is probably more of a html question. thanks for your time

For Flash file you have to get the link functionality in the flash file itself. You can not provide link by giving anchor tags.

Vid

Any other options/tags to make a flash file clickable?

soze

Hi

Have to agree with Sailesh, we use Flash on our site and do embed any links inside the flash swf file. That way all the user has to do is replace the swf with the link changes without having to upload a new swf and then update the DCR and deploy etc.

Is it a case that you don't have the .fla or the software to do this?

I guess another way would be a floating div with only a link in it, but that's a silly amount of work to do when a simple update to the flash would suffice

Cheers

Soze

Sailesh

Any other options/tags to make a flash file clickable?

No Vid there is no other way to make a flash clickable. Since Flash is embeded into the html file it is works with its own functionality, and you have to provide interface inside the flash for it to interact with html (javascript)

Frederik

We have the same problem. A banner on the homepage is normally an image with a URL, and our homepage template has 2 relevant fields (img, url). Users would like to have the option to reference a flash file in the img field. We prefer to have the flash still use the value in the url field as click-through destination (not editing the flash binary to set up the destination url)

We haven't really solved it. But I guess you could theoretically code your flash file to take the URL from a parameter that is passed into it from the HTML. I believe there is a < param > tag for that?

Hope ppl with more actual knowledge can confirm or deny.

Sailesh

We have the same problem. A banner on the homepage is normally an image with a URL, and our homepage template has 2 relevant fields (img, url). Users would like to have the option to reference a flash file in the img field. We prefer to have the flash still use the value in the url field as click-through destination (not editing the flash binary to set up the destination url)

We haven't really solved it. But I guess you could theoretically code your flash file to take the URL from a parameter that is passed into it from the HTML. I believe there is a < param > tag for that?

Hope ppl with more actual knowledge can confirm or deny.

Yes you can take the parameters from the param value, but again your flash file has to be coded to take that input and has to have the link functionality built in.

niske

or you could have a new flash created that loads the existing flash (in case you cannot edit it anymore) and which takes a number of parameters (which you pass through the flashvars;
-path of the swf to load
-path of the link

this way you can load any swf and have the user update the link in the DCR.

Vid

thanks for all the suggestions Smiley Happy