I've seen a couple of posts on this, but none that appear to have been solved so I hope you guys can help.

What I am attempting to do is embed a flash movie in the header portion of my site, replacing the default XOOPS logo as well as the area used by the banners.

After reading a couple of other posts here, this is the code I am using, in place of the call for the logo in my theme.html page:

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<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0" width="800" height="150" id="siteheader" align="middle">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
<param name="movie" value="<{$xoops_imageurl}>future.swf">
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" />
<embed src="<{$xoops_imageurl}>/themes/7dana-Xred/images/siteheader.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="800" height="150" name="siteheader" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />
</object>
-----end code snippet-----

So, any thoughts? And while I'm here, thanks so much for all the time and effort that has gone into developing Xoops. I am thrilled to have found it and hope to be able to contribute something back to this great community very soon!

Kim

why don't you use the banner preferences?

by all means that should work.. however!!

-----begin code snippet-----

<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0" width="800" height="150" id="siteheader" align="middle">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
<param name="movie" value="<{$xoops_imageurl}>future.swf">
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" />
<embed src="<{$xoops_imageurl}>/themes/7dana-Xred/images/siteheader.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="800" height="150" name="siteheader" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />
</object>
-----end code snippet-----

<param name="movie" value="<{$xoops_imageurl}>future.swf">

& <embed src="<{$xoops_imageurl}>/themes/7dana-Xred/images/siteheader.swf"

if i'm not mistaken, should these be pointing to the same file?

ie the code from mine is this, it was a hotbox in a custom block, but works fine as a header with changes to the width etc..

<table width="140" border="0">
<tr>
<td><object classid="clsid27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0" width="140" height="100">
<param name="movie" value="http://www.clubithard.co.uk/banners/frantichotbox.swf">
<param name="quality" value="high">
<embed src="http://www.clubithard.co.uk/banners/frantichotbox.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="140" height="100"></embed></object></td>
</tr>
</table>

note my param value and the ember are the same file.. i dunno if this is relevant..

Thanks so much! With a couple of minor modifications based on m0nty's post, here's what I ended up with and it's loading perfectly now:

-----begin code snippet-----
<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0" width="800" height="150" id="siteheader" align="middle">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
<param name="movie" value="http://www.mindgamesonline.net/themes/7dana-Xred/images/siteheader.swf">
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<embed src="http://www.mindgamesonline.net/themes/7dana-Xred/images/siteheader.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="800" height="150" name="siteheader" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />
</object>

-----end code snippet-----

I hope this helps someone else as well!

Kim,

I also want the header to be in flash, nice idea. Did you change anything besides the code u posted? in the CSS file maybe?

Ill try it out tinite.

Thanks

I didn't have to change anything else... only what's posted above and it's working fine now.