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#1 2008-01-24 10:56:47

snthr

Member

Registered: 2007-07-13

Posts: 42

article_image and flash

hi…

i’m trying to do up a site where each article has a flash slideshow associated with it.

ideally, i’d like to be able to use article_image, except instead of having an image associated with it, the tag would have a flash file associated with it.

is that possible? or is there another way to do this? or any plugins that might help?

thanks…

#2 2008-01-25 02:25:59

snthr

Member

Registered: 2007-07-13

Posts: 42

Re: article_image and flash

would aro_slideshow do the trick here, or is that intended to be used differently?

http://textpattern.org/plugins/613/aro_slideshow
http://forum.textpattern.com/viewtopic.php?pid=142168

thanks…

#3 2009-02-18 14:50:56

mttw

Member

From: The Netherlands

Registered: 2005-03-12

Posts: 26

Re: article_image and flash

did you already fix your problem? If so, how did you do that.. a flash article image.

#4 2009-02-18 15:44:13

jakob

Admin

From: Germany

Registered: 2005-01-20

Posts: 4,730

Website

Re: article_image and flash

Two ideas:

1. If your flash slideshow is pre-built, i.e. you link to a particular all-encapsulating flash file, you could use upm_file which enables you to associate files with your articles in the same way as the images are. You’d upload your flash gallery to the files tabs and use the id in upm-file to call it from your article.
2. If you are using a flash gallery where you can pass the image names to be loaded as text parameters in your flash embed method, you can use the normal article_image field. You just need to make your article form output the image links how you want them in the source code.

That said, there are many good javascript and jquery-based galleries now that are quite good and have removed the need for many situations where flash galleries were used in the past.

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