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bnh

July 15, 2008, 5:37pm

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Using eBlah 10.3.5

I'm trying to embed a flash animation program into a post, using standard html codes, e.g. <object> and <embed> commands.

Yes, the html option has not been disabled.

Using standard html codes, the flash program will not appear, and I have to link to it from the post to an outside html page. The flash program works and all is fine. But this takes the viewer out of the eblah forum. So I'm trying to get the flash program to appear in the actual post.

I have found that when I surround the html code in the post with the "code" bracket, as shown below, it almost works.

The program appears and plays in the post, but the aspect ratios are off -- or the display window is off. Something is not quite right.

Only half of the flash program shows in the post. There is a black box area, which I assume defines the area of the flash program, but the animation program itself appears only half way up the black area. Very strange.

The flash program in the post is also smaller than it would appear on a normal html page.

I also notice that when the "code" brackets are used, the program will not center. This would be acceptable, if I could get all of it to appear.

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The following is inserted at the end of a post, and almost works. What will not show up is that I have inserted the "code" brackets around all of this standard html.

It almost works. Any suggestions?

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<OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=5,0,0,0" WIDTH="320" HEIGHT="240">
<PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="http://www.whatever.com/15.swf">
<PARAM NAME=quality VALUE="high">
<EMBED src="http://www.whatever.com15.swf" quality="high" WIDTH="320" HEIGHT="240" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash">
</EMBED>
</OBJECT>

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bnh

July 15, 2008, 11:05pm

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I have figured out one problem. The "half appearance" of the flash program inside the black box was caused by the automatic frame-in-frame format that accompanies the "code" command. By moving the mouse wheel I could at last center the flash program inside the black box.

I'm still stuck with the problem of the flash program being smaller than the original. In its present size, the text cannot be read. And the flash program having to be centered by moving the mouse wheel is not a solution I would want to keep.

But at least the flash program shows in the post with html commands inside the "code" command.

Anyway around the frame-in-frame approach?
Size problem?

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Nat

July 16, 2008, 4:20pm

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