Flash alignment, width

[TCC_Inc]

We have installed FLASH_NAME.swf as our masthead, with the jscript method:

--This file is FLASH_NAME.js--

document.write('<OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"');
document.write('codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0"');
document.write('WIDTH="1024" HEIGHT="40" id="mast" ALIGN="left">');
document.write('<PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="mast.swf"> <PARAM NAME=loop VALUE=true> <PARAM NAME=menu VALUE=false> <PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high> <PARAM NAME=bgcolor VALUE=#000000> <EMBED src="http://globalsubnet.com/includes/templates/silverfish/images/mast.swf" loop=true menu=false quality=high bgcolor=#000000 WIDTH="1024" HEIGHT="60" NAME="mast" ALIGN="left"');
document.write('TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></EMBED>');
document.write('</OBJECT>');

Using this method in tpl_header.php to call it:

	
	
<script src="http://##########/FLASH_NAME.js"></script>

As you can see, we have the width and height of the flash file assigned values of 1024px and 60px, respectively. Alignment is specified as 'left'. However, look at the results!!! : www.globalsubnet.com

Any ideas what's going on?

[DrByte]

Your JS is wrong. Actually, in the JS is HTML, and the HTML is calling your flash object from the wrong location.
There are 2 parts. For the first one, you just had "mast.swf", and the second had a full absolute URL. While the absolute URL will work, if you use SSL on your pages, it will give security warnings, so dropping the domain name solves that. Basically, use the full relative path in both places and it's all good:

document.write('<OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"');
document.write('codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0"');
document.write('WIDTH="1024" HEIGHT="40" id="mast" ALIGN="left">');
document.write('<PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="/includes/templates/silverfish/images/mast.swf"> <PARAM NAME=loop VALUE=true> <PARAM NAME=menu VALUE=false> <PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high> <PARAM NAME=bgcolor VALUE=#000000> <EMBED src="/includes/templates/silverfish/images/mast.swf" loop=true menu=false quality=high bgcolor=#000000 WIDTH="1024" HEIGHT="60" NAME="mast" ALIGN="left"');
document.write('TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></EMBED>');
document.write('</OBJECT>');

You probably, for compliance, should also change your JS call from

<script src="http://globalsubnet.com/includes/templates/silverfish/jscript/mast.js"></script>

to

<script type="text/javascript" src="/includes/templates/silverfish/jscript/mast.js"></script>

[TCC_Inc]

Dr. Byte,

Thanks for the SSL advice...my friend had pointed out in other pages for images that the entire URL makes every image take just a little longer than just using "../whatever" to call the server directly. So, I've gone through the files and corrected all those instances. However, this hasn't solved the flash width problem. At first, it seemed that "mast.js" would only respect our attributes for "height", but not width. Then, I noticed that it mattered what

<div></div>

tags I placed the script call between. Putting them here:

<!--bof-header logo and navigation display-->
<?php
if (!isset($flag_disable_header) || !$flag_disable_header) {
?>
<script type="text/javascript" script src="../includes/templates/silverfish/jscript/mast.js"></script>
<!--<div id="headerWrapper">-->
<!--<script src="http://globalsubnet.com/includes/templates/silverfish/jscript/mast.js"></script>-->
  <!--<div id="navMainSearch">
    <div id="searchBox">
          </div>

  </div>-->
  <!-- </div>-->

made it a little wider. As you can see, I have inserted the code before the first "div" is called...and it made the masthead a little wider. You can also see other places where I tried to use it, commenting out certain areas and uncommenting them to see which ones worked best. However, I can't get it to START ALL THE WAY AT THE LEFT NO MATTER WHERE I PUT IT OR WHAT ATTRIBUTES I SPECIFY!!! ARRRRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHH. Please help more Dr. Byte!! What are we not seeing? Funny thing is, when it was an image and not a flash, there were no problems.

[DrByte]

I'm not sure I understand you fully.

When I made the change I posted above, I was able to see the flash span the full width (although the initial logo was still small and centered).

Do you have a picture of what you want it to look like?