Flash and Yahoo PageBuilder

RewiredRewired Member
edited December 2004 in Software
Anyone by chance exactly how I can embed a SWF file into a page built in Yahoo! PageBuilder?

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  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited December 2004
    If they'll allow you to insert HTML...

    [php]<embed src="link to SWF file" height=### width=###>[/php]
  • RewiredRewired Member
    edited December 2004
    Thrax,

    Thank you. That looks nice and simple. Could you possibly explain all the extra code Dreamweaver creates when embeding a Flash Movie.
    ex.
&gtobject classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0" width="10" height="10"&lt
  &gtparam name="movie" value="http://www.geocities.com/kgbwired/kgb.swf"&lt
  &gtparam name="quality" value="high"&lt
  &gtembed src="http://www.geocities.com/kgbwired/welcome.swf" quality="low" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="10" height="10"&lt&gt/embed&lt&gt/object&lt

    Truly thanks a bundle for your help.

    -Michael
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited December 2004
    All the extra code includes redirects to macromedia to download flash if they don't have the player install. It also declares the version of flash being used, the quality, and instructions to the browser so it knows precisely what it's looking at ("application/x-shockwave-flash"). If you're serious about webdesign, you'll want all that extra code.

    If you're a hack like me, you don't care.
  • RewiredRewired Member
    edited December 2004
    I don't know what I am. That said I have two questions; [1] the code above is directing to a swflash.cab. Is this simply install files incase the end-user doesn't have the flash plug-in? Also, there are not just one but two paths to the Flash Movie. Interestingly enough I find if I change one path but not the other, Firefox will link the user to one and IE to the other..

    Question 2 is just slightly off topic. Above I posted example code and obviously I didn't want it to compute so I replaced all the "<" with "&gt" and thr ">" with "&lt". This succeeded in disabling the code it's slightly distracting. How is posting code usually handled?

    Thank you again for your help and time.
  • a2jfreaka2jfreak Houston, TX Member
    edited December 2004
    [php]<You can> post <code> inside [ php ] tags [ /php ] just don't use the spaces.[/php]
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