Flash movie for the weather section wont work.

by **Berra** on Sat Mar 13, 2004 6:41 pm

I found this great flash file for the weather section that shows the weather here over Sweden, but i cant seem to get it working, when i add/change the URL in the weather.xml file and refresh the weather in xlobby i just get a blank red page, it just wont show the flash movie/file.

anyone tried this and got it working or now "why" its not working?

here is the Flash URL:

[url]http://weather.eu.msn.com/f5/loader18.s ... aultCity=&" height="294" width="445" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000[/url]

by **mattdisaster** on Sat Mar 13, 2004 7:06 pm

Hey berra-
If my memory serves me right, steven took out the ability to use flash file sin xlobby a few alphas ago. But I think the feature was only to have flash files as backgrounds. He took it out because when used as a background xlobby became very slow and it ate up cpu resources. Maybe he'll bring it back as a supported "image" file, but not as a background file. Good luck!

-matt

by **Berra** on Sat Mar 13, 2004 7:19 pm

oh I see, well thanks for telling me. I will put a request up for flash support, thanks

by **edgley** on Mon Apr 26, 2004 10:24 pm

Hi,

It seems that you can add the first part of the url:
http://weather.eu.msn.com/f5/loader18.swf

but the stuff after it causes problems

just enter the url into the webiste box and it will appear in the button section.

by **stevenhanna6** on Wed Apr 28, 2004 10:02 pm

i never saw this post, but dont add a website through the xml. Add it through the skin editor.

The reason it wont work is because it has "&", but dont worry the next release will fix this...I have to say it does look pretty cool