Flash help- I'm going crazy!

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I am going bananas with trying to get a Flash banner rotator to size to the dimensions that I have set in a layered HTML object on my page.

Here’s what I have done:

  1. created an HTML object on my page, sized to 935x345
  2. imported the swf for the banner rotator.

Everything plays fine, but the banners are not sizing as they should to the size of the HTML object. The instructions for the Flash banner rotator are vague at best:

“You don’t need to recompile the swf from the fla to use to rotator at different sizes. You only need to set the width and height properties in the html page that embeds the rotator swf. Remember also to set the scale=”noscale” option in the parameters of the object (always in the html page), to have the rotator to adapt perfectly to those dimensions.
example (using SWFObject): var flashvars = { xml: “data/myRotator.xml”}; var params = { scale: “noscale”, wmode: “transparent” }; swfobject.embedSWF(“PowerRotator.swf”, “powerrotator”, “400”, “200”, “9.0.0”, “expressInstall.swf”,flashvars,params);”

Where do I put this code in Freeway? I’ve been working at it for days- literally days and I can’t figure it out. I’m getting really close to just giving up on the whole thing.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

TB

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You could embed it using a Markup Item or insert it using Crowbar. OR you could import the PowerRotator.swf file into Freeway and then adjust the size of the container it is in to be 400x200 and then use Upload Stuff to attach the expressInstall.swf and myRotator.xml file.

You’d then change the folder from ‘data’ to ‘Resources’ for the xml file call. Then you would select your Flash item and go to Item > Extended and choose New and for Name put in ‘scale’ and for Value put in ‘noscale’ and then click New again and put in ‘wmode’ with a Value of ‘transparent’ and then click OK and try it.

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Dan J-

You saved my sanity. Everything works perfectly. Thanks so much!

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