Some people were having a problem back in 2008-2009 (#349450: Tag Cloud displays regular links not flash animation). I could not find a solution.

Thinking I might have a module conflict or something, I created a fresh drupal site at test.lonethistle.com. I installed the tagadellic and cumulus modules, created a tag taxonomy, created some content with tags, and enabled the cumulus block. It is showing the correct tags, but no flash.

I have tried:
Using different themes
Installing the SWF Tools and Flash node modules
Moving the block around
Using the latest development version of cumulus

None of these steps solved the problem.

I would appreciate any help with this - would love to get it working!

PS - This is the first issue I've posted. - I wasn't sure whether to reopen the issue above, or create a new one. Since I'm using a new version of cumulus, I created a new issue. Hope this is the correct way to go about this!

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Georgii commented

Hi,
try going to the Cumulus block preferences admin/build/block/configure/cumulus/0
and save them.

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lonethistle commented

Hi Georgii,

Thanks for the reply. I went to the configuration page, and didn't notice anything that should be disabling flash for the cloud. I clicked save anyway, but nothing has changed. I get a tag cloud, just not in flash (http://test.lonethistle.com). Judging by the output, it looks like it's trying to use flash. I considered the possibility of it being a browser settings problem, but other people's cumulus clouds are showing up fine for me.

<div id="block-cumulus-0" class="clear-block block block-cumulus"> 
 
  <h2>Cumulus Tag Cloud</h2> 
 
  <div class="content">        <div id="tags"> 
        <a href="/taxonomy/term/3" class="tagadelic level1" rel="tag">dolor</a> 
<a href="/taxonomy/term/6" class="tagadelic level1" rel="tag">four</a> 
<a href="/taxonomy/term/2" class="tagadelic level1" rel="tag">ipsum</a> 
<a href="/taxonomy/term/1" class="tagadelic level1" rel="tag">lorem</a> 
<a href="/taxonomy/term/4" class="tagadelic level1" rel="tag">one</a> 
<a href="/taxonomy/term/5" class="tagadelic level6" rel="tag">two</a> 
 
        <script type="text/javascript"> 
          var rnumber = Math.floor(Math.random()*9999999);
          var widget_so = new SWFObject("/sites/all/modules/cumulus-HEAD/cumulus.swf?r="+rnumber, "cumulusflash", "200", "150", "9", "ffffff");
          
          widget_so.addParam("allowScriptAccess", "always");
          widget_so.addVariable("tcolor", "0xff00ff");
          widget_so.addVariable("tspeed", "100");
          widget_so.addVariable("distr", "true");
          widget_so.addVariable("mode", "tags");
          widget_so.addVariable("tagcloud", "");
          widget_so.write("tags");
        </script> 
        </div> 
        <div class="more-link"><a href="/tagadelic/chunk/1">more tags</a></div></div> 
</div> 
          </div>
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lonethistle commented

Solution Update:
I solved the problem. It turned out my permissions were wrong for the cumulus.js file. Enabling read permissions for group and other fixed everything. I hope this thread helps others who might be having the same problem.

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lonethistle commented
Title: Cloud displaying HTML links, no Flash. » Suggest add instruction in README.txt to set permissions of cumulus.js to 644
Component: Code » Documentation
Category: support » feature

Since I know I'm not the first one who had this issue, perhaps a note in the installation documentation might be useful?