!!!help With A Link!!!

[mac-man]

Hi there,

site in question http://www.northstardesign.co.uk/titanic
I'm trying to link a small SWF file to the various pages in my site. I have a left navigation menu with a text link that uses NETQUOTEVAR:SECTIONLINK and it works fine. The SWF file that is to the left of it holds the same NETQUOTEVAR variable, this also works fine... EXCEPT on the home page!!!

I have looked at the code that ACTINIC creates for the SECTIONLINK variable and it creates different code for the text link and the SWF link. Where it creates the HREF link for the SWF file it adds "/acatalog/" before it. However, the same NETQUOTEVAR:SECTIONLINK that is assigned to the text link, has a different link created for it by ACTINIC. Why?

The code that I am using is for my SWF file is:

In FLASH MX:
getURL (clickTAG)

In Dreamweaver:
HREF="Icon.swf?ClickTAG=NETQUOTEVAR:SECTIONLINK"

The link for the text link that is literally one line below it in the HTML code is as follows:

HREF="NETQUOTEVAR:SECTIONLINK"

However, the two create different things. The one on the SWF always adds "/acatalog/" before it where the hypertext link doesn't.

This problem is only on the home page on http://www.northstardesign.co.uk/titanic and does not occur once you are in the acatalog directory (e.g. http://www.northstardesign.co.uk/titanic/acatalog).

Please, if anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated.

Thankyou and I hope this makes sense.
Tom
Northstar Design

[mac-man]

can anyone help at all?

[wjcampbe]

I read the following code from a page where flash has been used successfully. Perhaps this will help you.

Thanks to Ian Brewster of www.biketalk.com for the source code

<TD><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0" width="776" height="260">
        <param name="movie" value="/With_FL/Flash/0561.swf">
        <param name="quality" value="high">
        <embed src="/With_FL/Flash/0561.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="776" height="260"></embed></object></TD>

[Hatticus]

glad that works on someone elses site.. I posted v similar code just the other day in this 'ere thread.. but was not sure whther the ClsID was unique etc

http://community.actinic.com/showthr...2478#post82478

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bunging my additional question here with this.....

Should the "path/to/your/file" be generated correctly by act/acatalog if linked to fom both the home page and catalog pages? Because the path to the .swf file will be different in both cases as they reside in different directories on the server ?

Isn't that the core of mac-mans question aswell.. or am I missing something? ( most likely)

[Bruce]

Hi,

The "path/to/your/file" should be generated correctly if linked to from the home and the catalog pages. I have had a look on MacMan's site and he seems to have got it working as bot the .swf image and the text links now link to the same area and are working just fine.

Kind regards,