HTML with swf - Post ID 227035

Feb 25th, 2014 at 02:34 PM
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Charles Martin
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Does anyone now how to display a picture is swf format, or shockwave format. I can display it in png but not swf. I have a program that embeds hyperlinks in the png file and renames it to swf. Supposedly if you have shockwave installed it works. But I can get the page to show the picture so shockwave never starts up
Feb 25th, 2014 at 02:40 PM
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Eric Rohloff
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Can I ask why a swf?
I can't hear what I'm looking at.
It's easy to overlook something you're not looking for.
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Feb 25th, 2014 at 02:57 PM
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Steve
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Eric Rohloff wrote:
Can I ask why a swf?


I was thinking the same. Charles you will not be able to view these files on most mobile devices by default.
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Feb 25th, 2014 at 03:03 PM
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SadDuck
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Sure. Do it all the time. http://gunsmoke.me/test/animationtest/

Use this code for HTML5:
<embed src="http://yourdomain/yourfile.swf" width="550" height="400" />

Put that in an HTML box in VSD. Of course adjust height/width to fit your animation. Works like a champ. Or code it in if you're into that. :P
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Feb 26th, 2014 at 01:07 PM
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Keith W Jones
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Full code would be like this:

<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,22,0" id="preloader" width="840" height="660">
<param name="movie" value="preloader.swf">
<param name="bgcolor" value="#000000">
<param name="quality" value="high">
<param name="allowscriptaccess" value="samedomain">
<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" name="preloader" width="840" height="660" src="preloader.swf" bgcolor="#000000" quality="high" swliveconnect="true" allowscriptaccess="samedomain">
<noembed>
</noembed>
</embed>
</object>


Keith
Feb 26th, 2014 at 01:22 PM
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JamesD
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Hi Charles,

Renaming a file extension won't work. The file extension tells the computer what type of file it is and how to deal with it accordingly (since every file cannot be handled the same).

In order to display a '.swf' you'll need to create a swf to contain your images with something like Firestarter:
http://www.coffeecup.com/firestarter/
(Fortunately it's Free for you)

Once you have a proper 'swf' file, then you can follow the directions the other members gave to display it as needed.

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