Flash images traped behind white boxes

Question

I am having that problem that on my page. My images are traped under some white boxes.

See it live here: http://kjacobsen.dk click on Archive

Anyone that know what is causing this problem?

The flash is loaded with SWFObject v1.4.4 with XML 1.0

Here is a part of the index.html:

<script type="text/javascript">

    var so = new SWFObject("swf/kj.swf", "KJ", "100%", "100%", "8", "#000000");
    so.addVariable("xmlPath", "xml/publish.xml");
    so.addParam("scale", "noscale");
    so.addParam("allowScriptAccess", "sameDomain");
    so.addParam("menu", "false");
    so.addParam("loop", "false");
    so.addParam("salign", "lt");
    so.addParam("align", "left");
    so.write("flashcontent");

</script>

do you mean in the archive section (nice design, btw)? – Yevgeny Simkin Sep 14 '11 at 22:31 — Yevgeny Simkin, Sep 14 '11 at 22:31
Yes I do mean the archive section – Rails beginner Sep 14 '11 at 22:32 — Rails beginner, Sep 14 '11 at 22:32

eLouai · Accepted Answer · 2011-09-15T18:39:00.367

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The behaviour looks like you got an ordering issue. I would check first the order in which addChild is added (unlikely)

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Loader issue?:

It almost looks like the video is set to be the border, and the border was set to be the video. Double check your settings to see if everything is pointing to the correct location / variable.

Security Issue?:

It may be a security exception. Because you have hosted your files on amazon (images, movies) and the swf is on a different server.
The easy fix. Place your swf file in the same bucket on amazon s3, that way the domain reads the asset served from the exact same host that serves the Flash application itself. If that fixes the problem then it was a security exception that was getting thrown.

edited Sep 15 '11 at 18:39

answered Sep 14 '11 at 22:33

eLouai

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Where can I see these variables ? – Rails beginner Sep 15 '11 at 05:30
Do you have the source code for it? Maybe they provided variables that you use to setup the environment, maybe its configured via an XML document, I don't know what you are using. Maybe you can provide more information. – eLouai Sep 15 '11 at 05:37
I think it is in the XML because it before had worked with some local paths. Here is the new XML http://www.kjacobsen.dk/xml/publish.xml – Rails beginner Sep 15 '11 at 05:41
And the old one that did work: http://www.kjacobsen.dk/publish.xml I cannot use it because my files are hosted on Amazon S3 – Rails beginner Sep 15 '11 at 05:46
Where is it most likely that the border have been set? – Rails beginner Sep 15 '11 at 13:31
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The XML looks fine. This is one of those situations where you need to find a time, server, situation where it worked and then change one variable at a time until it stops working. Does it work on another server setup? Maybe the server is gzipped and the way the images are loaded breaks the calculation (when a server is gzipped, swf no longer knows what the file size is, so totalbytes is zero, and when calculating percent, you would get a divide by zero, an exception thrown ... maybe that could be the cause). – eLouai Sep 15 '11 at 15:37
The only really dramatic server change is that the files are not loaded locally that they before have. – Rails beginner Sep 15 '11 at 17:01
what do you mean locally? Are the images now called from ANOTHER server? maybe you need a crossdomain file, maybe its a security exception. – eLouai Sep 15 '11 at 17:55
Yes the images are called from another server in the XML file (Amazon S3) What type of crossdomain file do I need? And why are the movies loading without problems and front images. But why are there this problem with archive that uses the thumb images? :) – Rails beginner Sep 15 '11 at 18:01
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You can load images and movies BUT if you manipulate them then you would require a crossdomain file on the amazon server, which would be impractical. You need to run in debug mode and see if your app is throwing a security exception before you start going down this path. – eLouai Sep 15 '11 at 18:17
In my logs I can see the thumb images are being called with GET and retrieved. How do I create a crossdomain file on the amazon server? – Rails beginner Sep 15 '11 at 18:25
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Updated my answer ... If its a security issue, the easy fix is to try to place the SWF as well on amazon S3 server. – eLouai Sep 15 '11 at 18:40
I want to thank you for your help and fast response time. Do you have an e-mail to contact you with? :) – Rails beginner Sep 15 '11 at 20:23
I use gmail.com, just add my username that you see here(dont want spambots to scrap my email, I already get enough spam as it is :) ) – eLouai Sep 15 '11 at 22:03

Flash images traped behind white boxes

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Loader issue?:

Security Issue?: