Problem with Flash Header

[welchyboy]

This is a great suggestion. I have worked with this part before but didn't get too far. I tried it just now and changed it to 114 and the height looks good but now the width shrunk big time. So now there are huge black spaces on the left and right. I added the width:"100%"; to the logowrapper and changed the height to 100" and I see LOTS and LOTS of black space above and below the file but this is because the actual height of the flash file is rather big. I will change that to 140 or 150 and see how that looks with the height at 100%. Because the width of the banner looked great when the height is bigger for some reason. I think the solution is somewhere in here i think we are very close. Thanks for your help!!

MISTY are you wanting my swf file? Or what can i give you to help you out so you can help me out lol. Let me know and I will do what i can. Thanks for everyone's help yall are amazing!

[davewest]

This is a great suggestion. I have worked with this part before but didn't get too far. I tried it just now and changed it to 114 and the height looks good but now the width shrunk big time. So now there are huge black spaces on the left and right. I added the width:"100%"; to the logowrapper and changed the height to 100" and I see LOTS and LOTS of black space above and below the file but this is because the actual height of the flash file is rather big. I will change that to 140 or 150 and see how that looks with the height at 100%. Because the width of the banner looked great when the height is bigger for some reason. I think the solution is somewhere in here i think we are very close. Thanks for your help!!

Sawhorse nailed it for you some time back, Flash is not the same as a image. It doesn't distort like a image. When the space it occupies is not the same ratio as the flash stage, the ratio changes to fit the entire movie leaving the stage background color and any peace of animation that is off stage in view. You use black as your stage background, thus the black borders. My flash banner on my blog was designed for fast loading. It's was designed at a 1/3 of it's intended display size. It too would show it's background and off stage animation if I didn't adhere to it's size ratio.
I would down size your flash for faster load. You also seem to be loading swfobject twice as will two head sections, not sure if this is intended, but may give you trouble down the road. The more things you load that you don't need can slow down page load...

[welchyboy]

Sawhorse nailed it for you some time back, Flash is not the same as a image. It doesn't distort like a image. When the space it occupies is not the same ratio as the flash stage, the ratio changes to fit the entire movie leaving the stage background color and any peace of animation that is off stage in view. You use black as your stage background, thus the black borders. My flash banner on my blog was designed for fast loading. It's was designed at a 1/3 of it's intended display size. It too would show it's background and off stage animation if I didn't adhere to it's size ratio.
I would down size your flash for faster load. You also seem to be loading swfobject twice as will two head sections, not sure if this is intended, but may give you trouble down the road. The more things you load that you don't need can slow down page load...

Well what I did is change the stage color to the same color as the background and got it as close as i could. It is barely noticeable now. I am interested in making the flash file actually smaller so it will load faster it is a little less than 700k. Which is big for 56k. However I want it to look good and the reason it is soooo big is because my flash files width is 2600 so I have to make the image huge. Although I have a flash loader which at least will tell the customer that it is loading but if i can while making it look good load a little faster. Thanks for all your help and I think I am finally getting the flash file at least decent I am almost happy with it lol. Any suggestions on how to make it better or quicker? I have only tested the file with about 1280 by 768 and lower resolution.

[davewest]

Any suggestions on how to make it better or quicker? I have only tested the file with about 1280 by 768 and lower resolution.

OK... first, there are only three resolutions in flash, High, Medium, and Low. The default is High if not set through the param command. The size is what I think your referring to, basically is the size of your stage. Depending on what your using as a image depends on how good it looks. On my banner, it's only 26kb and is pack with animation. It could have been 8kb, but I used a jpg for the scrolling background graphic. A good book if you have time is Flash Hacks by Sham Bhangal put out by O'Reilly. Good tips on using scripting to reduce file size and incressing animation. The more image you can create in flash and less outside formated images, like jpg's, the smaller the file size. Also, raster graphics, which is what your creating, has very little if any distortion when changing size in flash.

[welchyboy]

Yeah I will check out that book and I do understand by adding these images it making my flash file huge. I did create these in photoshop but not sure if i want to lower the quality. I am sure I can change it to like a gif or another format to lower the size i just don't want to mess it up too much now because I am pretty much happy with how it looks now. Thanks for all your help and I will see what i can do. Thanks again

[chalfontgifts]

Well confused on how to get this working.

Trying to put a flash file in a banner on the header.

This is what I started with that did not work. This is is in the html part of the banner page.

<object classid="clsid27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub...ersion=8,0,0,0" width="728" height="90">
<param name="movie" value="http://www.lozer.co.uk/shop/images/b...eaderboard.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<embed src="http://www.lozer.co.uk/shop/images/b...eaderboard.swf"
quality="high"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
width="728"
height="90"
pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />
</object>

Have installed flash sidebox.

What do I need to put in the html section to get this working please.

Regards
Laurie

[davewest]

Well confused on how to get this working.

The flash banner is there, increasing the height in your CSS for logoWrapper should give it more space. Looking with firefox 3.