Flash

Flash

The old ways to insert a flash file STILL WORKS:

METHOD 1:

CSB will upload your FLASH file to the website for you.

- Use a program to make flash & produce HTML code (ex: SWISH)

- Edit code: place ^GEMDIR/ in front of the flash file name

(myflash.swf, becomes ^GEMDIR/myflash.swf)

Sample code:

codebase="http://active.macromedia.com/flash4/cabs/swflash.cab#version=4,0,0,0"

id="announcingpro2" width="278" height="244">

width="278" height="244"

type="application/x-shockwave-flash"

pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash">

</embed>

</object>

- Place code into an INSERT HTML (Webgem in Trellix)

- Place flash file into the WEBCOMPONENTS part of the INSERT HTML

- File > Publish web site > Options > HTML Directory > Uncheck this box when you publish.

- Publish

METHOD 2:

CSB will link to your FLASH file that you have manually uploaded to your website outside of CSB!

- Use a program to make flash & produce HTML code (ex: SWISH)

- DO NOT edit code

Sample code:

codebase="http://active.macromedia.com/flash4/cabs/swflash.cab#version=4,0,0,0"

id="announcingpro2" width="278" height="244">

width="278" height="244"

type="application/x-shockwave-flash"

pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash">

</embed>

</object>

- Place code into an INSERT HTML (Webgem in Trellix)

- Publish

>> Both of these methods still work!

NEW FEATURE: Flash file insertion.

This new feature allows you to link to a flash file that you have MANUALLY uploaded to your website (using FTP software, control panel or file manager offered by your hosted website. With this option, you do not need to insert CODE but you do need to know what your code information contains so you can set the options. You assign the location of the file and you set options within CSB. When the page publishes, it will pull the file into the webpage, but only if you have uploaded it to your web space using another method.

TEST 1: Flash in table, text in right column

This is an inserted flash inside a table.

Published properly on first try.

TEST 2: Flash in table, text under it in column, more text in right column

This is what I see in my design window:

BUG: This is what happens when I published:

The text jumps to the right instead of under the flash.

pressed enter then typed

text under the flash in the table

The text typed below ends up BESIDE the flash!

The flash file below did not publish properly when put directly on the page. The inserted screen print image is supposed to be BELOW the flash file not BESIDE it!

TEST 3: Flash in page (no table, press enter, add image)

This is what I see in my design window:

Image is below the flash placeholder

BUG: This is what happens when I published:

image is beside the placeholder

Instructions reprinted directly from GlobalSCAPE help file in CSB5:

1. On the menu bar, click Insert > Picture> Flash File…. The Flash dialog appears.

2. On the General Tab, Enter a name for the flash file, and enter the source and base URL path to it. Optionally, select the playback options. You can also enter a path for the user to download the flash player if not already installed on the viewing web browser. The source URL is the path to the source flash file. The Base URL is an optional URL that you can define for a page that converts all the relative URLs on that page into absolute URLs. For example, you can enter http://www.sample.com/assets/ for the base URL, and then example.swf for the source, and the path resolves as http://www.sample.com/assets/example.swf. [This instruction is strange....we have only one url field to work with so these two instructions do not make sense]

3. On the Appearance tab, in the Movie section, select the quality, scaling, background color, and alignment of the flash file. You can make the background transparent.

4. In the Layout section, select a border, if any and adjust the horizontal and vertical spacing.

5. In the Size section specify the vertical and horizontal size of the flash file. You must know the horizontal and vertical size of the flash file for it to appear correctly on the web page.

There are no instructions on the use of the options: Show Menu and SWLive Connect.

BUG REPORT: I inserted a flash into a webpage, defined options and it shows. But ENTERED after the flash so the inserted image would be BELOW the flash, yet when the page was published the inserted image is BESIDE the flash piece above.

Not really sure why this feature was added since Flash was easily inserted using the two established methods.