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    Default Help needed with a Flash links problem please

    Hi.
    My shop will be part of my site & I'm trying to standardise the look of all the pages. To do this I'd like to put a vertical flash menu that I've made into the top left column. I made the links in a program called Flashation & the code it gives me to enter is as follows:
    <object
    classid="clsid27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
    codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=4,0,2,0"

    width="128"
    height="200">
    <param name="BGCOLOR" value="#0">
    <param name=movie value="New shop style flash menu.swf">
    <param name=quality value=high>

    <embed src="New shop style flash menu.swf"
    quality=high
    pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"
    type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
    width="128"
    height="200"
    bgcolor="#0">
    </embed>
    </object>
    I thought that I should be able to just copy this code into HTMLarea, and then choose to show it only in the sidebar, but when I do nothing happens.
    Is it possible to do this?
    Any help with this would be appreciated.
    Thanks.
    Dave.

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    Default Re: Help needed with a Flash links problem please

    1. what is your URL?
    2. "where" did you paste this into htmlarea? what menu option did you use to get there?

    HTMLarea will usually convert that content to literal content, rather than raw HTML unless you tell it to let you edit the content in "source" mode (by clicking the <> button in HTMLarea).

    But, depending on "where" you want this to appear, you may be putting the code in the wrong place altogether...

    More details and a visual may help someone help you more effectively...
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    Default Re: Help needed with a Flash links problem please

    Thanks for your answer & sorry for not including my url.
    My url is www.pets-express.co.uk/cart/
    I just used shift-insert (rather than ctrl-v, because that doesn't work in Firefox) to get the code in there. I didn't use any menu option - didn't know that I had to.

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    Default Re: Help needed with a Flash links problem please

    Thanks for the URL.

    I still have no idea where you want to put the flash, nor why ...

    Is this flash content supposed to replace a menu, add some special feature, draw attention to something, advertise products, etc?
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    Default Re: Help needed with a Flash links problem please

    Here's a link to the front page of my site: http://www.pets-express.co.uk/index2.html, which I am going to be changing to look like the cart. On the left is a navigation menu. I have made a flash navigation menu that matches the design of the cart template that I'm using & I can get the flash menu on every page except the cart itself.
    The menu I'm trying to add to the left hand side of the cart page looks like this:

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    Default Re: Help needed with a Flash links problem please

    1. grab the "extra links sidebox" contribution from the downloads area.

    2. edit the file in the "templates/YOURTEMPLATE/sideboxes" folder of that contribution, and replace this:
    Code:
      $content = '';
    
      for ($i=0; $i<sizeof($extra_links); $i++) {
        $content .= $extra_links[$i] . '<br />';
      }
    
      $content .= '';
    with this:
    Code:
     $content = '<object
    classid="clsid27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
    codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=4,0,2,0"
    
    width="128"
    height="200">
    <param name="BGCOLOR" value="#0">
    <param name=movie value="New shop style flash menu.swf">
    <param name=quality value=high>
    
    <embed src="New shop style flash menu.swf"
    quality=high
    pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"
    type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
    width="128"
    height="200"
    bgcolor="#0">
    </embed>
    </object>';
    Then enable the sidebox where you want it to appear. Customize as desired.
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    Default Re: Help needed with a Flash links problem please

    Thanks for your patience, but I can't find an "extra links sidebox".

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    Default Re: Help needed with a Flash links problem please

    Anyone got any idea what "extra links sidebox" might be referring to?

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    Default Re: Help needed with a Flash links problem please

    How about the follow in the Sideboxes section of Downloads area.
    Blank Sidebox
    A New Starter again

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    Default Re: Help needed with a Flash links problem please

    Thanks for the suggestion, but I don't think it's that sidebox. It doesn't contain any of the code that DrByte said that I should replace. Nor do any of the other sideboxes that I've downloaded, and I've downloaded anything that looks remotely like it might be something to do with extra text.
    I'm stuck.
    Looks like a complete site redesign is the only way out, unless there is another way to add the flash navigation to the cart.

 

 

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