[thelist] Flash slideshow element not working
Mark Howells-Mead
mark at mountainmultimedia.ch
Wed Jan 23 04:02:21 CST 2008
> <param name="FlashVars"
> value="pics=&pic0=Ab_15_A3.jpg&pic1=AB_TM_06A5.jpg&pic2=Ab_23_A5.jpg&p
> ic3=Ab_10_A3.jpg&pic4=AB_TM_05A5.jpg&pic5=AB_Tiku_07_A5.jpg&totalitems
> =6&dir=http://www.villanova.co.uk/Images/Collections/tiku-prints-
> and-weaves/flash/&"
> />
[....]
> I'm not a flash developer myself, someone else did the slideshow
> but he
> can't think of why its not working.
I only have a little experience of this kind of development, but I do
know that FlashVars can lead to problems. The way that the variables
are passed in the example you've provided seem to be a bit of a train
wreck, it would be infinitely better to use an XML file to provide
the information about the individual images, then pass the URL of the
XML file as a simple reference. That sequence of nested ampersands
and variable definitions is almost definitely causing a problem
somewhere.
e.g.
<param name="FlashVars" value="xmlfile=/data.xml" />
Have a look here:
http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?cid=D1CB3
Regards
Mark Howells-Mead
- www.permanenttourist.ch
- www.flickr.com/photos/mhowells/
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