Embedding Flash from Various Sources....

Everyone's gotta diddle with their code....

I have permission to post these on my forum, but I can't get this code to post for the life of me.

Does someone have an idea??

Here is the code:
<embed  id="mediaPlayerContainer" width="404" height="352"align="TL"flashvars="id=03KqeOEbyBo7sbiEJW06IW6l8V&partnerId=3&pwidth=404&pheight=352"scale="noscale" allowfullscreen="true" wmode="window" menu="false"loop="false" allowscriptaccess="always" quality="high"bgcolor="#000000" name="mediaPlayerContainer" style=""name="mediaPlayerContainer" src="http://www.ehow.com/flash/player.swf"type="application/x-shockwave-flash"/><br><atarget="_blank" href="http://www.ehow.com/video_2365002_A Brief Historyof Fly Tying & Fly Fishing_.html">A Brief History of Fly Tying& Fly Fishing</a> -- powered by eHow.com
END CODE.

Any help would be appreciated.

Here's a post of the last videos I put up with permission.

By putting the code right in the message, it used to work.  Since the changes, no.

Any help again would be appreciated.

http://forum.fishingthetwintiers.com/2008/12/20/34-how-to-pick-the-line-up-from-the-water-in-fly-c/page1/

testing...

do you have a link to the original site that gives the embed code so i can test.

A Brief History of Fly Tying& Fly Fishing -- powered by eHow.com

<embed  id="mediaPlayerContainer" width="404" height="352" align="TL" flashvars="id=03KqeOEbyBo7sbiEJW06IW6l8V&partnerId=3&pwidth=404&pheight=352"scale="noscale" allowfullscreen="true" wmode="window" menu="false" loop="false" allowscriptaccess="always" quality="high" bgcolor="#000000" name="mediaPlayerContainer" style="" name="mediaPlayerContainer" src="http://www.ehow.com/flash/player.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"/>
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<a target="_blank" href="http://www.ehow.com/video_2365002_A Brief Historyof Fly Tying & Fly Fishing_.html">A Brief History of Fly Tying& Fly Fishing</a> -- powered by eHow.com</embed>

I put in some spaces, also the usual missing </embed> at the end....

Colonel Jack....  you rock.

OK, so...  I get the embed.  But spaces??  I will try to figure it out.

Thanks!!!!

You're welcome! 
I'm not sure if the spaces mattered if not, but I put them in anyway.... just for neatness.  

I got it working.  No added spaces, just the /embed on the end.

Thanks again!!

Okay... I'm not very good with flash. I wanted to add a specific type of poll (one where you could vote more than once to have my members vote on participation)... anyhow - I'm trying to embed the following:
<embed allowScriptAccess="never" saveEmbedTags="true" quality="high" wmode="transparent" bgcolor="#ffffff" name="beta3" salign="tl" scale="autoscale" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" FlashVars="p=1693796" src="http://www.polldaddy.com/poll.swf" width="252" height="500"></embed>

If I embed it either in a post or on the sidebar I end up with several inches of space before the poll (I played with the height and it doesn't seem to matter - the above example is actually much shorter than it should be). I posted the same flash applet on a "back page" of another site I run and found that no extra space occurred there. So can anyone tell me how to get rid of the extra space?

Thanks,
Val

I've tried pasting the code into a forum, and it seems Lefora is removing some of the embedding code. Maybe this is what's causing the issue, but I don't know why Lefora is chopping your code...

This is what's left after saving :

<embed quality="high" name="beta3" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" flashvars="p=1693796" src="http://www.polldaddy.com/poll.swf" width="252" height="500"></embed>

I have a similar problem, perhaps. When I try to adding the following flash RSS feed widget:
http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/OblinQRssReader
it only works if I use width 200 px. If I try to customize to 300 px the widget looks as in the picture below. Is Lefora causing this problem, or is there something wrong with the widget since it won't accept other sizes? And most importantly, is there anything to do with this?

So removing those parts of the code is what's causing the large gap at the top? The poll still works... it's just so far down the page, I'm afraid people won't be able to easily find it. Guess I'll just have to post "Scroll Down to see poll" and hope they follow directions (which often is a problem for any large group of people!).

if it's a poll that's giving you a problem, you can try polldaddy.com and  it might work better on lefora.

It's various flash widgets - after pasting into the custom html box and saving, various parts of the code 'disappear'

Paste in the code in autumnfire's post http://support.lefora.com/2009/02/27/embedding-flash-from-various-sources/13669393/ - save it - and you're left with the code in my post http://support.lefora.com/2009/02/27/embedding-flash-from-various-sources/13672004/

LOL! It is polldaddy.com! The poll works. The problem is that the poll ends up at the bottom of the page and you have to scroll past a large gap in the window (when either done in the sidebar or as a post). I tried the polls here but they don't allow multiple votes by the same person (which is what I need for this particular project). So I went to polldaddy. Their flash polls only leave the gap here on Lefora (they are fine on other sites that I've tried them on). So I thought I would post it here to see if anyone has a fix for this. Colorneljack has been nice enough to try and work with it and has found that lefora deletes part of the code. I'm still confused as to whether deleting part of the code is causing the gap or not... *shrug*. If anyone can help - I'd appreciate it. Otherwise, I'll figure something out! I love lefora forums... and this minor problem is no biggy if it can't be solved.

You can see it (or part of it, at least!) here : http://hyltestsite1.lefora.com/forum/

sorry autumnfire, i respond to so many topics, sometimes i get them confused.

let me see if there's something we can do about this.

it seems as if polldaddy is using non standard html attributes and lefora is cleaning anything that isn't proper or standard 'html'.  This is a protection we have to avoid any malicious person from compromising accounts on Lefora.

You could try contacting polldaddy to see if they have alternate embed code that follows stand html attributes.  Or maybe there is another poll widget service that would work.  Sorry there isn't a simple solution.

Thank you for your time. I'll check with them and into alternatives!