By cazam on

Please help!
I can;t get flash to show in IE. Actually, I really hate IE, and barely use it, but I know most people do and its a necessary evil but anyway I digress.

Please help, I've read lots of threads and am still too dense to figure it out.

I have flash in my header of terra firma theme using drupal 6 and the code is:

<div id="header">
		      <div id="logo-title">
				<?php if ($logo): ?>
				  <a href="<?php print $base_path ?>" title="<?php print t('Home') ?>">
					<img src="<?php print $logo ?>" alt="<?php print t('Home') ?>" id="logo" />
				  </a>
				<?php endif; ?>
				</div>
			<div id="title">
				  <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0" width="140px" height="184px"> <param name="movie" value="yourlogo.swf" /> <param name="quality" value="high" /> <param name="wmode" value="Transparent" /> <param name="menu" value="false" /> <param name="scale" value="noscale" /> <embed src="/sites/nomadradio.co.uk/files/btn_play.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="140" height="184" wmode="Transparent" menu="false" scale="noscale"></embed> </object>
			</div>
		</div>

But it doesn't show.
I also have it on my home page and it doesn;t show but assuming the errors are conncted.
Site in question is nomadradio.co.uk

Pretty pretty please someone help me???

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cazam commented

when I test the movie path from the page source which is:

http://nomadradio.co.uk/sites/nomadradio.co.uk/files/btn_play.swf

it works fine in IE, I can see the movie all good. So... logic tells me it is something to do with the drupal code/handling of the swf and not the swf itself...

please help!!!

Carrie
CAZAM Ltd
http://www.cazam.eu

cazam’s picture

cazam commented

I managed to fix this be removing the class id parameter from the flash embed. Fixed for IE and still working in other browsers.

	<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0" width="500" height="500" id="intro" align="middle">

changed to:

	<object codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0" width="500" height="500" id="intro" align="middle">

Carrie
CAZAM Ltd
http://www.cazam.eu

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pahariwalla commented

Carrie -

I found this problem a couple weeks ago, but have put it off because I hate IE too ... I finally had to get around to to fix it, and after an hour or two of screwing around, trying to get some sort of console or debugger going on IE (never did) - I did what I should have to start with. I googled "Drupal flash not showing in IE" and this post came up first and your solution worked right off the bat.

So thank you. A lot. How *did* you figure it out. Seems like that nasty classid would be a required parm...

Raj

mm167’s picture

mm167 commented

not using swfobject?

cazam’s picture

cazam commented

Hi Raj - most welcome! Glad it was useful. I searched until I could search no more and finally stumbled across it on a website somewhere. Thought I'd post it on Drupal as the community has helped me so many times!

Carrie
CAZAM Ltd
http://www.cazam.eu

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methetweb commented

I actually found out I was having this problem when using Zen Cart. I was refering to the same banner from several drupalsites as well. Thank you for sharing this with us.

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SWMdave commented

lost my notes on this- very helpful