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Hi,
I am having problems with my Landscape showing on my Website can anyone please advise on what I may be doing wrong. All I get on my site is the moving clouds no Landscape which indicates to me that the image is incorrect in some way. The Landscape works all OK on my PC . On my site I have put the XML file in the root directory, as shown here.
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE cross-domain-policy SYSTEM "http://www.macromedia.com/xml/dtds/cros ... policy.dtd">
<cross-domain-policy>
<allow-access-from domain="http://www.sidneyharbour.btinternet.co.uk" secure="true"/>
</cross-domain-policy>

I have changed the PNG file to a SWF and uploaded my Landscape folder, I am quit sure that all file names and extension are correct. My coding appears as such.

<div style="width:220px; height:150px;">
<div style="width:220px; height:150px;">
<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://swf.yowindow.com/wimo/hpPal/hpPal.swf" width="220" height="150">
<param name="movie" value="http://swf.yowindow.com/wimo/hpPal/hpPal.swf"/>
<param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"/>
<param name="wmode" value="opaque"/>
<param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"/>
<param name="flashvars"
value="location_id=gn:2640354&location_name=Peterborough&landscape=http://www.sidneyharbour.btinternet.co. ... _bar=false"
/>

<a href="http://yowindow.com?client=widget&link=stub"
style="width:220px;height:150px;display: block;text-indent: -50000px;font-size: 0px;background:#DDF url(http://yowindow.com/img/logo.png) no-repeat scroll 50% 50%;"
>Desktop weather</a>
</object>

One thing that I am unsure about in the instructions to convert a PNG file to a SWF file is this :-
was: <data src="img/colosseum.png" horizonLevel="735">
new: <data src="img/colosseum.swf" horizonLevel="735">
I cannot see where the reference "data src" appears in the coding.
Many thanks for taking the time to read this.
Best Regards,
Sid.

Hi Sid!

At least your crossdomain.xml is not correct.

You wrote:

sid1939 wrote:On my site I have put the XML file in the root directory, as shown here.
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE cross-domain-policy SYSTEM "http://www.macromedia.com/xml/dtds/cros ... policy.dtd">
<cross-domain-policy>
<allow-access-from domain="http://www.sidneyharbour.btinternet.co.uk" secure="true"/>
</cross-domain-policy>

The domain which is allowed to access the webserver with your site has to be changed according to this post from Pavel: http://yowindow.com/forum/viewtopic.php ... t=10#p9698

To use your swf-file you simply have to use the path to your swf-file in the ywl-configuration file as the "src".

Hope this helps.

Hello Sid,

After you fix your crossdomain.xml file you will also need to correct the errors (highlighted in red) in this line of the widget code:

<param name="flashvars" value="location_id=gn:2640354&location_name=Peterborough&landscape=http://www.sidneyharbour.btinternet.co.uk/test.htm/landscape/yo_wx.ywl&;time_format=24&unit_system=metric&background=#FFFFFF&copyright_bar=false" />

test.htm/ is not part of the path to yo_wx.ywl and &; should be &

Corrected code: The data tag is in your yo_wx.ywl file.

Don

Hi Ikarus and Don,
Many thanks for your replies to my query and for the help in them, great! I have now the PNG file working all OK, but as in the instructions it does take a long,long time to load. I tried several times over the last two days to convert to a SWF file using the YoWindow conversion tool but on each occasion I ended with just a blank page, could not get it working it seemed to time out after 10 mins or so. I therefore converted using another program. Changed the YWL file and uploaded as well as the SWF file and the New Crossdomain.XML file as in Pavel posting.
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE cross-domain-policy SYSTEM "http://www.macromedia.com/xml/dtds/cros ... policy.dtd">
<cross-domain-policy>
<allow-access-from domain="*.yowindow.com" secure="true"/>
<allow-access-from domain="*.gmodules.com" secure="true"/>
</cross-domain-policy>
Now I have a strange picture on my site ,the top half above the Horizon Level is correct," I have some branches of a tree there". the lower half " no Picture"
Does the conversion of the file have to be made in YoWindow file converter? As I am still trying to learn.
Best regards,Sid.

Hi Sid,

it seems as i if the conversion failed somehow (stopped after the first few lines).
Could you please upload the png-file here so we can make our own test(s) with converting it to swf?

Edit: i just found it on your site (http://www.sidneyharbour.btinternet.co. ... _yo_wx.png) - no need to upload it here anymore!

The PNG-file you are using is a really huge file (2800x2041 and 13,4MB in size)!
If you only want to use it in the size as shown on your test-page i recommend make it smaller.

I did reduce resolution to a quarter the size (700x510) and got a file size of 661,9 KB.

When i tried to convert it to SWF with the YoWindow converter i get some strange artefacts.

I attach both the (smaller) PNG and the SWF i get as a result of the YoWindow-converter - can anyone confirm this or even tell me the reason for the stranmge artefacts/colors? :

Hi Ikarus,
Once again my thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I followed your advice and reduced the size of my PNG Image converted it all Ok on YoWindow and uploaded all OK. All working fine now. I really can make no comment on the brilliant colours that you have on the SWF Image as I am still in the learning stage. I have found that strange things can happen.
Best Regards and my thanks once again.
Sid.

Hi

there was no transparant in the picture
I have have reduced the original to 1400 x 1000 and converted to swf.

gr.
Herman