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I'm having a lot of trouble getting several Flash apps to display
properly in IE. If the apps are displayed individually in a page
they work fine .... but when several are put together in one page,
they render from the middle of the <OBJECT> window, not the top
left. .....
see attached image (I am using the charts from
http://www.maani.us/xml_charts/index.php... note that the code is
identical for all 4 charts)
Works fine on firefox..... breaks in IE 5, 6, 7.
There are suggestions that this is an IE cache problem ....however,
I have tried placing the following tags in my page, but they have no
effect:
<META HTTP-EQUIV="cache-control" CONTENT="no-cache"> <META HTTP-
EQUIV="pragma" CONTENT="no-cache"> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Expires"
CONTENT="Fri, Jun 12 1981 08:20:00 GMT">
The Flash apps retrieve data from an XML file using a URL .... I
have placed a unique ID in that URL to bypass any caching of the XML
file, but this also does not work.
I still suspect it is a caching issue, but I cant find a workaround.
Has anyone else had this kind of issue with multiple Flash apps in
IE?
.... any ideas for a solution?
Thank you
Dennis.
PS If you want to see the example picture, please have a look at:
http://www.dennisbinsfeld.de/flash_problem.JPG
Just have a look in my source code:
<tr>
<td>
<div id="body2row1datablock1">
<OBJECT ALIGN="" id="gauge" HEIGHT="158" WIDTH="240"
codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swf
lash.cab#version=6,0,0,0" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-
444553540000"><PARAM VALUE="/swf/gauge.swf?
library_path=/swf/&xml_source=/stylesheets/Flash/data/GaugeAData.
xml%3FignoreStaticPage%3Dtrue%26uniqueID%3D1158104199859"
NAME="movie"><PARAM VALUE="high" NAME="quality"><PARAM VALUE="white"
NAME="bgcolor">
<EMBED PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"
TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" ALIGN="" NAME="gauge"
HEIGHT="158" WIDTH="240" bgcolor="white" quality="high"
src="/swf/gauge.swf?
library_path=/swf/&xml_source=/stylesheets/Flash/data/GaugeAData.
xml%3FignoreStaticPage%3Dtrue%26uniqueID%3D1158104199859"
id="myembed2"></EMBED>
</OBJECT>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
I use these two templates to create the flash animations:
<xsl:template name="swf-charts-html">
<!-- parameters to pass through to this template -->
<xsl:param
name="xml_source_url">/templates/stylesheets/FlashDash/data/Availabil
ityData.xml</xsl:param>
<xsl:param name="width">240</xsl:param>
<xsl:param name="SM_ID"/>
<xsl:param name="height">158</xsl:param>
<xsl:param name="bgcolor">white</xsl:param>
<xsl:param name="SM_ID_string"
select="/page/HttpRequest/Parameters/@(protected)"/>
<xsl:variable name="SM_ID_appendage">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="$SM_ID_string">%26SM_ID%
3D<xsl:value-of select="$SM_ID_string"/></xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>%26SM_ID%3D<xsl:value-of
select="$SM_ID"/></xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="dataURI"><xsl:value-of
select="$root"/><xsl:value-of select="$xml_source_url"/>%
3FignoreStaticPage%3Dtrue<xsl:value-of select="$SM_ID_appendage"/>%
26uniqueID%3D<xsl:call-template name="currentTime"/></xsl:variable>
<!-- fascilitate debug -->
<xsl:variable name="debugURI"><xsl:value-of
select="$root"/><xsl:value-of select="$xml_source_url"/>?
ignoreStaticPage=true&showStep=4</xsl:variable>
<OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/f
lash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0"
WIDTH="{$width}"
HEIGHT="{$height}"
id="charts"
ALIGN="">
<PARAM NAME="movie" VALUE="{$root}/swf/charts.swf?
library_path={$root}/swf/&xml_source={$dataURI}"/>
<PARAM NAME="quality" VALUE="high"/>
<PARAM NAME="bgcolor" VALUE="{$bgcolor}"/>
<EMBED id="myembed"
src="{$root}/swf/charts.swf?library_path=
{$root}/swf/&xml_source={$dataURI}"
scale="noscale"
bgcolor="{$bgcolor}"
WIDTH="{$width}"
HEIGHT="{$height}"
NAME="charts"
ALIGN=""
swLiveConnect="true"
TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash"
PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer">
</EMBED>
</OBJECT> <a href="{$debugURI}" style="text-
decoration:none;"><img aligh="right" border="1" width="5"
height="1"><xsl:attribute name="src"><xsl:value-of
select="$root"/>/common/images/blank.gif</xsl:attribute></img></a>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="swf-gauge-html">
<xsl:param name="xml_source_url"/>
<xsl:param name="width"/>
<xsl:param name="height"/>
<xsl:param name="bgcolor"/>
<xsl:param name="SM_ID_string"
select="/page/HttpRequest/Parameters/@(protected)"/>
<xsl:variable name="SM_ID_appendage">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="$SM_ID_string">%26SM_ID%
3D<xsl:value-of select="$SM_ID_string"/></xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise/>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="dataURI">xml_source=<xsl:value-of
select="$root"/><xsl:value-of select="$xml_source_url"/>%
3FignoreStaticPage%3Dtrue%26uniqueID%3D<xsl:call-template
name="currentTime"/><xsl:value-of
select="$SM_ID_appendage"/></xsl:variable>
<OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/f
lash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0"
WIDTH="{$width}"
HEIGHT="{$height}"
id="gauge"
ALIGN="">
<PARAM NAME="movie" VALUE="{$root}/swf/gauge.swf?
library_path={$root}/swf/&{$dataURI}"/>
<PARAM NAME="quality" VALUE="high"/>
<PARAM NAME="bgcolor" VALUE="{$bgcolor}"/>
<EMBED id="myembed2"
src="{$root}/swf/gauge.swf?library_path=
{$root}/swf/&{$dataURI}"
quality="high"
bgcolor="{$bgcolor}"
WIDTH="{$width}"
HEIGHT="{$height}"
NAME="gauge"
ALIGN=""
TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash"
PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer">
</EMBED>
</OBJECT>
</xsl:template>
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