• Registered: 2007-02-05
  • Posts: 3

Topic: viewer not showing up or just partially

I'm building a site for a friend. We're using SimpleViewer for her portfolio.

On IE6 and IE7, the portfolio shows up as expected and works normally. On Opera it doesn't show up at all. On Firefox, the thumbnails show up but not the main image. Works on Netscape just like the rendering engine chosen. (Has not been tested on Safari or any other Mac browser.)

As far as I can tell, I haven't changed the coding enough to affect this. I'm sure the hangup is one simple thing that I'm overlooking.

Any help would really be appreciated.

Testing page:
http://www.shoshanastudio.com/testing/portfolio.htm

Thanks in advance!

  • Registered: 2007-02-05
  • Posts: 3

Re: viewer not showing up or just partially

Okay, I figured out that my (very simple) CSS was messing things up. So I took away the height/width requirement for that div and SimpleViewer now shows up fine in Opera (and other browers). However, it still only shows the thumbnails in Firefox. What's going on?

  • Registered: 2007-01-12
  • Posts: 23

Re: viewer not showing up or just partially

Hey,

Might have the solution, Firefox doesn't always like % when it comes to width and height variables, and on your site the flash div looks like this:

http://www.shoshanastudio.com/testing/portfolio.htm -

    <script type="text/javascript">
        var fo = new SWFObject
("scripts/viewer.swf", "viewer", "100%", "100%", "7", "#000000");   
        fo.addVariable("preloaderColor", "0xffffff");
        fo.addVariable("xmlDataPath", "scripts/gallery.xml");   
        fo.write("flashcontent");   
    </script>   
    </div>

On my site I had to adjust the settings by the actual width value instead of a percentage:
http://www.takemetamars.flifree.com/images.html

    <script type="text/javascript">
        var fo = new SWFObject("viewer.swf", "viewer", "100%", "620", "7", "#000000");   
        fo.addVariable("preloaderColor", "0xffffff");
        fo.addVariable("xmlDataPath", "gallery.xml");   
        fo.write("flashcontent");   
    </script>

So it might just be a simple alteration of the percentages to real numbers. Post back if this doesn't help, and I'll try my best.

[url]http://www.takemetamars.net/[/url]  * [url]http://www.takemetamars.flifree.com[/url]./
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  • Registered: 2007-02-05
  • Posts: 3

Re: viewer not showing up or just partially

YOU ARE SO RIGHT!!!!

It was a simple solve. Thank you thank you thank you.

I've been killing myself trying to figure this out. Whew!