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Flash Tracking with Mochibot.com
- Joey C
- Tue 25th September 2007, 2:11 pm
Have you ever wished there was a way to track your flash content across multiple sites? Or a way to see who has stolen your content and posted it on their site? Mochibot.com is the answer, and best of all, it`s totally free.
I signed up and did a test run of their service. I was impressed, and thought them well deserving of a plug. Learn more here: www.mochibot.com |
Tutorial: How to display Flash (or HTML) on top of Flash
- Joey C
- Fri 14th September 2007, 5:19 pm
Ever wanted to display a new Flash movie on top of an already existing flash movie (like the flash portfolio section of this site)? This is a helpful, subtle way to show flash movies that are at a different frame rate from the original movie.
There are two important things that make this work correctly. Two divs with different `z-index`, and the flash movies have the parameters "wmode=transparent".
I took the tutorial a step farther and put divs inside of container divs so that the bottom flash piece could be centered on the stage, and the top flash piece could be positioned exactly where I wanted it (regardless of window size).
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Tutorial: How to initiate Lightbox from Flash
- Joey C
- Tue 28th August 2007, 11:32 am
Lightbox (by Lokesh Dhakar) can be launched/opened from flash AND work in both IE and FireFox. Just add some javascript to the page`s <head>:
Then, call the javascript from Flash:
Make sure the image links you are calling from flash are listed on the page somewhere. It doesn`t have to be visible/clickable, so <a href="blah"></a> works fine.
This alone works in FireFox, but Internet Explorer still has some issues; so you need to do one more thing. Open up lightbox.js and comment out line 406, so it reads: //while(imageArray[imageNum][0] != imageLink.getAttribute(`href`)) { imageNum++;}
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