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Banner Rotator FX

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Personal License(single use) details

The "Personal License (single use)" grants you a non-exclusive and non-transferable right to make use of this product in a single non-commercial* website (or application**), your own work or client work.

* A non-commercial application is an application which is not owned by a company and it does not generate money, directly or indirectly.
The Personal License applies for applications owned by individuals (i.e. websites that does not generate money in any form), non-profit organizations, schools and universities, foundations.

** An application can be a website, a software, an electronic document such as a PowerPoint presentation or an e-book, a printed document, a video production

There is no restriction on the number of copies of this product within the same application. For example, with one Personal License you can include this product in all the pages of your website. But you will need two Personal Licenses for two different websites.

If you want to use this product in multiple non-commercial applications owned by:
1. you or your non-profit organization - you must purchase a Personal License for each different application, or you can purchase the Special License
2. your clients - you must purchase a Personal License for each different application. The Special License does not apply in this case. Contact us if you want to purchase an Extended License which will allow you to use this product in an unlimited number of applications owned by your clients.

WARNING !

You will need the Commercial License if this product will be included in an application that is owned by:
1. a company, even if the application in which this product will be included does not directly generate income
2. an individual, when the application in which this product will be included generates income in any form (i.e. a website with paid advertising)

You are not allowed to include this product in applications that are for sale.

You are not allowed to directly or indirectly license, sub-license, distribute, redistribute, sell or resell this product.

Commercial License(single use) details

The "Commercial License (single use)" grants you a non-exclusive and non-transferable right to make use of this product in a single commercial* website (or application**), your own work or client work.

* A commercial application is an application which is owned by:
1. a company, even if the application in which this product will be included does not directly generate income
2. an individual, when the application in which this product will be included generates income in any form (i.e. a website with paid advertising)

** An application can be a website, a software, an electronic document such as a PowerPoint presentation or an e-book, a printed document, a video production

There is no restriction on the number of copies of this product within the same application. For example, with one Commercial License you can include this product in all the pages of your website. But you will need two Commercial Licenses for two different commercial websites.

If you want to use this product in multiple commercial applications owned by:
1. you or your company - you must purchase a Commercial License for each different application, or you can purchase the Special License
2. your clients - you must purchase a Commercial License for each different application. The Special License does not apply in this case. Contact us if you want to purchase an Extended License which will allow you to use this product in an unlimited number of applications owned by your clients.

WARNING !

You are not allowed to include this product in applications that are for sale.

You are not allowed to directly or indirectly license, sub-license, distribute, redistribute, sell or resell this product.

Special License(multiple use) details

The "Special License (multiple use)" grants you a non-exclusive and non-transferable right to make use of this product in an unlimited number of commercial and non-commercial websites (or applications*) owned by you OR your company.

This Special License does not apply if you want to use this product in multiple commercial applications owned by your clients. In this case you must purchase a suitable license (Personal or Commercial) for each different application. Contact us if you want to purchase an Extended License which will allow you to use this product in an unlimited number of applications owned by your clients.

* An application can be a website, a software, an electronic document such as a PowerPoint presentation or an e-book, a printed document, a video production

WARNING !

You are not allowed to include this product in applications that are for sale.

You are not allowed to directly or indirectly license, sub-license, distribute, redistribute, sell or resell this product.

Features

- over 100 transitions to choose from
- supports JPG, GIF, BMP, PNG, SWF
- autoTiming (optionally, each image lasts according to the length of the text; otherwise, you can specify the duration in seconds for each image)
- you can have random images and/or random transitions
- Zoom and Ken Burns image effects
- resizable to the extent of 1680 x 1050 pixels
- if the images are random, the Banner uses the fair advertising policy (you won't see an image twice until all other images are shown)
- images of any sizes can be used; they will be automatically adjusted according to the imageFitting option
- each image can optionally have different particularities, different from the overall properties of the Banner, like transition, image effect, text options, text effects
- HTML and CSS formatted text

Other features:

- the font can be embedded or not
- you can show text only on mouse over, or you can pause the slideshow on mouse over
- once the current image is loaded and displayed, the next image can be loaded in background so the preloader would appear as least as possible

Installation instructions for:

How to install this Banner Rotator on your website

Step 1. SWF embedding

Download the banner.zip package and put all the files from this package into the same folder with the HTML file in which you want the component to be embedded.

You should know first of all that the SWF file is the one that actually represents the component, while the other files (settings.xml, images.xml and JPGs in the images folder) are the assets that the SWF file uses.
A short explanation on how SWFs and XMLs interacts you will find here.

Open your HTML file with a text editor and insert somewhere between the <head> </head> tags the following lines:

<script type="text/javascript" src="swfobject.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
var flashvars = {};
var params = {};
params.scale = "noscale";
params.salign = "tl";
params.wmode = "transparent";
var attributes = {};
swfobject.embedSWF("banner.swf", "BannerDiv", "600", "260", "9.0.0", false, flashvars, params, attributes);
</script>

For a fast and easy publishing, the best thing to do is to have the SWF file, the HTML file which embeds the SWF, the swfobject.js file, and the assets that the SWF uses (XMLs, JPGs folder) in the same folder.

If that is not possible, please read this detailed article on how to specify the paths correctly.

The above code itself isn’t enough to publish the SWF file on your webpage. You just need to add a div somewhere in the body section of your page (between the <body> </body> tags of your HTML file).

So, in a specific location of your HTML body section insert this div:

<div id="BannerDiv"></div>

Step 2. Customization

You’ll be able to define a maximum size of 1680 in width and 1050 in height in the 3rd and 4th arguments of the swfobject.embedSWF() function above. Usually the same values as for bannerWidth and bannerHeight (which you will set below).

Now you will have to define the properties of your Banner.

You can do that by editing the settings.xml file, or much simpler, set your values on the Live Demo above and press Generate button, then select all (Ctrl+A) and copy-paste over the existing content of settings.xml file.

If you intend to have multiple Banners on the same page, for the same banner.swf file you’ll need to have different settings.

All is left to do is to put your own images, add the text, add the behavior for when clicking each image, and optionally add specific banner settings for each image. All these through the images XML file. Open the images.xml file (or whichever file you specified as the imagesXML property in the settings.xml file) and define in each row the image path, the url to go to when clicking the image, the target (_self for the same browser window, or _blank for a new browser window), the duration in seconds for each image, and the text in CDATA section. To add specific properties for each image simply add a new attribute in the XML entry corresponding to each image.
You can have as many images as you like. To add a new image add a new row in the XML file.

Here’s how an XML entry (corresponding to an image) should look:

<photo image="images/01.jpg" url="http://www.flashxml.net" target="_blank" duration="7" transition="57" effect="ken burns" dur="7" direction="bottom" vpos="center" width="250" func="Elastic" type="wide">
<![CDATA[<head>This is the head section</head><body>This is the body section</body>]]></photo>

You will find the full list of specific particularities which you can set for each image in the images.xml file. When you specify one of these properties, the corresponding overall setting of the Banner will be ignored.

banner.swf embeds only the Arial font. To be able to embed any other font you’ll need the Banner Flash component. As an alternative you can use non-embedded fonts.

If you’ll want to use the Banner in Flash projects (FLA files), the Banner is available as a Flash component (MXP file) in the paid package

Instructions on how to use the Banner component in Flash you will find here.

Make sure your Wordpress version is greater than 2.8 and your hosting provider is using PHP5.

1. There are two files to download:

a. WordPress Plugin that you have to install and activate

b. Free package

2. Create a new folder inside your wp-content folder called flashxml, inside this folder create a new one called banner-rotator-fx and copy the content of the free package there

3. If you copied the free package to a location different than the one above, go to Banner Rotator FX from the Settings tab from your WordPress Dashboard and update the path accordingly

4. Add [banner-rotator-fx][/banner-rotator-fx] where you want the Flash to show up in your post/page.

5. If you want to make the Banner Rotator FX part of your theme, edit the template files and add <?php bannerrotatorfx_echo_embed_code(); ?> where you want it to show up

6. Customize your Banner Rotator FX using the Live Demo from the top of this page. Generate the settings.xml text and use it to overwrite wp-content/flashxml/banner-rotator-fx/settings.xml

7. To use your own images, upload them to wp-content/flashxml/banner-rotator-fx/images and update the wp-content/flashxml/banner-rotator-fx/images.xml file accordingly

Additional settings file

To embed the Banner Rotator FX more than once, you will need another settings file and (probably) another set of images. Let's assume your new file is called settings2.xml. Add [banner-rotator-fx settings="settings2.xml"][/banner-rotator-fx] where you want the Flash to show up in your post/page. If you made the Flash part of your theme, add the file name as the first argument of the bannerrotatorfx_echo_embed_code() function call (for example <?php bannerrotatorfx_echo_embed_code("settings2.xml"); ?>).

No Flash support text

To support visitors without Adobe Flash Player, you can provide alternative content by adding the text between [banner-rotator-fx] and [/banner-rotator-fx]. If you made the Flash part of your theme, add the text as the second argument of the bannerrotatorfx_echo_embed_code() function call (for example <?php bannerrotatorfx_echo_embed_code("","Alternative content"); ?>).

If you have PHP4

To make it work with PHP4, add [banner-rotator-fx width="600" height="300"][/banner-rotator-fx] where you want the Flash to show up in your post/page. If you made the Flash part of your theme, add the width and height as the third and fourth argument of the bannerrotatorfx_echo_embed_code() function call. Don't forget to provide your own width and height values, since 600 and 300 are just examples.

Getting rid of the FlashXML.net label

To remove the FlashXML.net label from the top-left corner you'll need to buy the paid package. Once you'll do that, simply use the SWF file from the paid package to overwrite the SWF file from the wp-content/flashxml/banner-rotator-fx/ folder.

Make sure your Joomla version is 1.5 and your hosting provider is using PHP5.

Joomla Module Instructions:

1. There are two files to download (both under GPL License):

a. Joomla Module that you have to install and enable

b. Free package

2. Create a new folder inside your Joomla folder called flashxml, inside this folder create a new one called bannerrotatorfx and copy the content of the free package there

3. If you copied the free package to a location different than the one above, update the Path from module's parameters accordingly

4. Customize your Banner Rotator FX using the Live Demo from the top of this page. Generate the settings.xml text and use it to overwrite flashxml/bannerrotatorfx/settings.xml

Joomla Plugin Instructions:

1. There are two files to download (both under GPL License):

a. Joomla Plugin that you have to install and enable

b. Free package

2. Create a new folder inside your Joomla folder called flashxml, inside this folder create a new one called bannerrotatorfx and copy the content of the free package there

3. If you copied the free package to a location different from the one above, update the Path from module's parameters accordingly

4. Add {bannerrotatorfx}{/bannerrotatorfx} where you want the Flash to show up in your article

5. Customize your Banner Rotator FX using the Live Demo from the top of this page. Generate the settings.xml text and use it to overwrite flashxml/bannerrotatorfx/settings.xml

6. The default name for the settings file is settings.xml, but if you want to use another file (for example settings2.xml), specify the name like this: {bannerrotatorfx settings="settings2.xml"}{/bannerrotatorfx} where you want the component to show up in your article

7. In some cases the width and height will not be read from the settings.xml file but you can specify them like this: {bannerrotatorfx width="400" height="300"}{/bannerrotatorfx}. Don't forget to provide your own width and height values, since 400 and 300 are just examples.

Getting rid of the FlashXML.net label
To remove the FlashXML.net label from the top-left corner you'll need to buy the paid package.
Once you will do that, simply use the SWF file from the paid package to overwrite the SWF file from the flashxml/bannerrotatorfx/ folder.

Below you will see instructions on how to install and use the Banner Rotator Component in Flash (available for Flash 8, Flash CS3, CS4, and Flash Player 9 or later).

For basic instructions on how to integrate the Banner Rotator’s SWF file into HTML/PHP, click here.

You can watch an installation video tutorial of a very similar component in Flash (3D Carousel Menu FX) by clicking here.

In this video you will see:
- how to create an instance of the component on the stage: from the Components panel (Ctrl+F7) drag & drop the component on the stage
- how to give a name to that instance for further use in ActionScript: click on the component instance on the stage and from the Properties panel (Ctrl+F3) enter a name in the text input
- how to access the properties of the component (read or modify) during different moments of your Flash application

Any property of the Component could be accessed that way. The names of the properties are identical with the ones from the settings.xml file.

The properties of the component can be of any of the three types: Number, String, Boolean. We assume it’s intuitive of which type each property is.

Warning! Setting the parameters of the component in the Component Inspector window (Shift+F7) and in the same time having a settings.xml file populated with different values for each property, the properties from the settings.xml file will have priority (meaning that a parameter set in the Component Inspector will be ignored if that parameter is also defined in the XML file)

For now, this component doesn't dispatch events, but stay tuned for an update.

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Roberto

Posted 25 Days Ago

Hi, i have purchase a personal licence of banner rotator.
I have a question.
I need to add a another banner text on the image, so to have three banner. It’s possible?
Thanks, great component.

Hi,

If I understood you well enough, you’ll have to follow the steps from this tutorial.

Brad

Posted 25 Days Ago

Hi, Will you be upgrading this component to work with Joomla 1.6?

Hi,

When Joomla 1.6 will be officially released (not beta) we’ll make our plugins work with it.

Jome Akpoduado

Posted 26 Days Ago

Hi,
I read its possible to have two banner rotators on the same web page pointing to two different asset folders. If this is the case, how can this be done?
Thanks

Hi,

Please follow the steps from this tutorial.

alan

Posted 26 Days Ago

Hi,

There is a head tag but still not seeing the banner…

Hello,

We’ve checked the link that you supplied and the banner works just fine. We’ve sent an e-mail from our support account with a screenshot of this.

alan

Posted 26 Days Ago

Hi,

I re uploaded banner.swf as you suggested but still have the same problem. I also downloaded a new set of files from your site and then used the new banner.swf file from there but still a problem. Is the file still corrupted? Do I need to change permission for this file – it is now on rw – r – r ? This is working fine on my computer but not when uploaded. Thanks.

PS the image i referred to is not your logo – it is a 38by40 pix but it is not loading – you can see the “no pic available” image in IE only.

YOUR REPLY:
Hi,
Try to upload again the SWF file, because it’s corrupted.
The commercial version won’t have the FlashXML.net logo in the top left corner anymore.

ORIGINAL QUESTION : I am trying the free version before buying a paid version but the banner is not loading on my site although it is calling a 38 by 40 pixel image in IE. It works fine on my computer (although it still has that image in IE) and I uploaded the complete folder exactly as I have it on my computer. Any suggestions? I also would like to know how to remove the 38by40 image when I buy the paid version. Thanks

Hello,

The banner doesn’t appear most probably because you do not have a “<head>” tag, but you do have a “</head>” tag. Because of this, the browser ignores the code that is supposed to be in between those tags.
Put the “<head>” tag before the scripts, and it should work fine, if nothing else is wrong.

Nils

Posted 26 Days Ago

Oh, that’s a pity. But thank you anyway!

Nils

Posted 26 Days Ago

Oh, that was fast! Thanx :-)
The website is http://test.nils-liebherr.de/wordpress/
The image.xml is http://test.nils-liebherr.de/wordpress/wp-content/flashxml/banner-rotator-fx/images2.xml with 5 images, #2, #3, #4 are external.

Hello,

We see the problem, it is using the path wp-content/../banner-rotator-fx/yourImageURL/image.jpg instead of yourImageURL/image.jpg. Unfortunately, there isn’t a solution for this problem (that we know of) because that is how wordpress works.

On a regular site, loading external images would work without a problem, but on wordpress our conclusion is that the feature can not be supported.

Nils

Posted 26 Days Ago

Hi!
Is there any way to load external images?
In the images.xml file I have some images hostet at an external website, using <photo image=“http://www.xyz.com/a1.jpg” .....> but the image won’t load!
May there something be wrong or does this simply not work?
Thanx!

Hello,

It ought to work. Please give us a link to your website and we will look into the problem.

vids

Posted 27 Days Ago

Hi How to change the text that now is being displayed.
Can we change that or only to remove that text ‘Customizing zoom and kern burn…..’ and other text.
And how to edit the link to this banner? when user click will link to other website

Hi,

You can change the text from images.xml file (in CDATA sections) – you can insert any text you like.
You can insert your own url addresses using the url attribute also from images.xml

Mauricio Lopes

Posted 27 Days Ago

Hi! I acquired the Banner rotate FX, but I cannot open the file banner.fla, the follow message appears when i try to open it: “Unexpected file format.” The version of my Flash is 8.0. I think that this file is broken. Could you verify it, please?

Hi,

Could you please send me the archive to support at flashxml.net. I’ll convert it to Flash 8.

Thank you.

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