Supplying Flash Adverts For 3rd Party Sites
I've been asked to create some ads to go on a site that specifies "Advertising requiring the use of plug-ins like Flash and Shockwave must utilize "sniffer" code to detect if the user has the required plug-in and display an alternate image if the user does not have it. ".How do I do this? Are they expecting me to supply the HTML/Javascript that loads either my .swf or a JPEG? I would have expected the host site to have a site-wide function to handle that. What is the normal way of doing this?Bob
Adobe > ActionScript 1 and 2
Posted on: 03/07/2007 07:51:38 AM
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INSTALLING
first put the jpg photos you want to use inside the "jpg"
subfolder. then open the "jpgrotator.xml" file with Notepad or
another text editor. the file looks like this:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<jpgrotator>
<parameters>
<rotatetime>6</rotatetime>
<randomplay>true</randomplay>
<shownavigation>true</shownavigation>
<transition>fluids</transition>
</parameters>
<photos>
<photo path="jpg/sidewalk.jpg" link="http://www.xdipsites.net" />
<photo path="jpg/grass.jpg" link="" />
<photo path="jpg/tiopepe.jpg" link="http://www.x3fusion.com" />
</photos>
</jpgrotator>
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values. in the parameters section you can make 4 different settings:
1. The time an image shows in seconds (2 to 10 look good)
2. Whether the rotation should be random or not (true or false)
3. Whether the navigation buttons should display (true or false)
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<param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" />
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VARIABLE
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<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="600" height="180"
bgcolor="#ffffff" data="jpgrotator.swf?file=alternate.xml">
<param name="movie" value="jpgrotator.swf?file=alternate.xml" />
<param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" />
</object>
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your jpg files cannot be saved as "progressive jpg" ! photoshop
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type of jpg files. use standard jpg instead.
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functions. these colors are set in hex values (0xff0000) ..
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