Zen Cart 1.3 & Flash

[ben_golant]

The following code snippet for a flash movie works perfectly here in a 1.2.5 site
: http://jtsmotosports.com, but just displays a black box here on a new 1.3 install here: http://open-source-systems.com

Here is the snippet:

<div id="content">
<div id="left">
<object class="specials" classid="clsid27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0" width="135" height="135">
<param name="movie" value="https://www.jtsmotosports.com/specials.swf" />
<param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="menu" value="false" />
<embed
src="https://www.jtsmotosports.com/specials.swf"
quality="high"
menu="false"
wmode="transparent"
pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="135" height="135" />
</object>
<object class="video"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="https://www.jtsmotosports.com/video.swf" width="480" height="320">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
<param name="movie" value="https://www.jtsmotosports.com/video.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
<param name="bgcolor" value="#48739B" />
<param name="menu" value="false" />
<embed
src="https://www.jtsmotosports.com/video.swf"
quality="high"
wmode="transparent"
bgcolor="#48739B"
width="480"
height="320"
menu="false"
allowScriptAccess="sameDomain"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />
</object>

Thanks for any tips.

[DrByte]

I'm only guessing, but is it possible that your scripts are doing that because they're playing from a different domain?

I'd try copying them to your test domain and referencing them with relative paths instead of absolutes.

... or maybe remove this line:

<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />

[ben_golant]

I'm only guessing, but is it possible that your scripts are doing that because they're playing from a different domain?

I'd try copying them to your test domain and referencing them with relative paths instead of absolutes.

... or maybe remove this line:

<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />

DrB - thanks for the suggestions - changed the code as you suggested to :


<object class="specials" classid="clsid27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0" width="135" height="135">
<param name="movie" value="../images/specials.swf" />
<param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="menu" value="false" />
<embed
src="../images/specials.swf"
quality="high"
menu="false"
wmode="transparent"
pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="135" height="135" />
</object>

<object class="video"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="../images/video.swf" width="320" height="220">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
<param name="movie" value="../images/video.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
<param name="bgcolor" value="#48739B" />
<param name="menu" value="false" />
<embed
src="../images/video.swf"
quality="high"
wmode="transparent"
bgcolor="#48739B"
width="320"
height="220"
menu="false"
/* allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" */
type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />
</object>


The result is still the same - that code plays on the 1.2.5 site but not the 1.3 site - not that I am suggesting it really is anything to do with 1.3 - it's just very curious. http://open-source-systems.com/

Thanks

[DrByte]

It's odd that your specials.swf plays fine but video.swf doesn't, even when swapping filenames in the code.

I just tried that same code with nothing else on the page other than the needed base href (<base href="http://open-source-systems.com/" /> ) required to pull the file from the right place. It's just black. Even using the entire URL doesn't work.

However, running the video.swf directly in the browser without any object code etc seems to play fine.

I can only suspect that either you have a corrupted install of it on your testing server, or something internal to the SWF is causing this behaviour. I can't see Zen Cart being the cause at all.

[ben_golant]

It's odd that your specials.swf plays fine but video.swf doesn't, even when swapping filenames in the code.

I just tried that same code with nothing else on the page other than the needed base href (<base href="http://open-source-systems.com/" /> ) required to pull the file from the right place. It's just black. Even using the entire URL doesn't work.

However, running the video.swf directly in the browser without any object code etc seems to play fine.

I can only suspect that either you have a corrupted install of it on your testing server, or something internal to the SWF is causing this behaviour. I can't see Zen Cart being the cause at all.

No I am sure Zen Cart is not the cause because I reported that it works fine in Zen Cart 1.2.5 at http://jtsmotosports.com.

But I have now installed another fresh, brand new swf with this code snippet:

<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0" width="515" height="344" id="slideshow_as2" align="middle">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
<param name="movie" value="../images/slideshow_as2.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="bgcolor" value="#000000" />
<embed src="slideshow_as2.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#000000" width="515" height="344" name="slideshow_as2" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />
</object>

on 1.2.7 and 1.3 with the same result - and if you try to call it directly, http://open-source-systems.com/images/slideshow_as2.swf

it works beautifully.


So it is a lack of knowledge on my part I guess ut I will find the solution and report back in due course.

[DrByte]

Um, if the file is located at:

http://open-source-systems.com/images/slideshow_as2.swf

... then why are you using the following path to it?

"../images/slideshow_as2.swf"

".." denotes "go up a directory". I think you should really be saying

"images/slideshow_as2.swf"

[ben_golant]

Um, if the file is located at:

http://open-source-systems.com/images/slideshow_as2.swf

... then why are you using the following path to it?

"../images/slideshow_as2.swf"

".." denotes "go up a directory". I think you should really be saying

"images/slideshow_as2.swf"

Oops - sorry - too stupid - copied and pasted the wrong code when I replaced the absolute with the relative - it now works like a charm. Thanks DrB!